John Martinus
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: København
Birthday: July 27, 1939
Deathday: August 17, 2016
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Gender: Male
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The Idiots
Overview: A mix of home-video and documentary styles about a group of young people who have decided to get to know their “inner-idiots” and thus not only facing and breaking their outer appearance but also their inner.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: da
Release Date: 1998-04-28
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The Bench
Overview: Kaj is a stubborn man with a great deal of pride. The former chef lives in a council flat. He has wasted his life and is now on a council job training scheme for the long-term unemployed, where he refuses to let the foreman of the activation project boss him about. When Kaj's daughter, with whom he has not been in touch for nineteen years, moves into the same council estate on the run from her violent husband, a change comes over Kaj. His initial instinct is to avoid her, but by chance he ends up helping to look after Jonas, her six-year-old son. For the first time for years Kaj need not survive on his own devices. Now he has responsibilities and a family of his own.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: da
Release Date: 2000-08-26
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Emma's Shadow
Overview: Emma (Line Kruse) is an eleven year-old only child from a wealthy Danish family. Emma's parents seem more interested in their own interests than in her. One evening when Emma overhears her mother talking about how tragic it must be to have your child kidnapped, Emma decides to stage her own kidnapping. She soon meets Malthe, a kind-hearted, child-like, naïve sewer cleaner who literally stumbles on to her. She convinces Malthe that she is a Russian princess whose family is being chased by Bolsheviks, so Malthe lets Emma stay with him in his very modest abode. After being "kidnapped" for a few days, Emma decides to return home. But, just as she is about to return, she overhears a couple of servants talking about how her parents don't seem to be very upset over her dilemma....
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: da
Release Date: 1988-01-01
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Den grønne elevator
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Original Language: da
Release Date: 1996-01-01
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The Jut-Nuts III
Overview: Jacob and Finn run their low-budget private-eye business out of an auto salvage yard. Usually they are woefully incompetent, and on occasion they are inventive, like the time they find a boat captain's dentures. They're broke, so when Finn comes to the attention of a local hospital as having very healthy organs, Jacob is willing to help a corrupt doctor and his gold-digging nurse sell Finn's heart to a dying sheik in Switzerland. Finn rebels, so Jacob plots to substitute a pig's heart; then Finn gets attached to the pig and won't hear of its slaughter. As the sheik's health deteriorates and the doctor gets more desperate, Finn is in grave danger. Jacob has another plan.
Genres: Family Comedy
Original Language: da
Release Date: 1989-12-15
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In the Middle of the Night
Overview: Benny and Arnold are homeless and along with others living on Nørrebro in Copenhagen. The police is set to clear the building they squat in, but on the night of the forced eviction, local acid head Spacy jumps from the sixth floor.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: da
Release Date: 1984-03-09
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The Olsen Gang Goes to War
Overview: Some criminal EU ministers plan to turn Denmark into a gigantic fair ground and holiday paradise. Egon gets his hand at some important documents which could both make him rich and take care of Denmark's future.
Genres: Family Comedy Crime
Original Language: da
Release Date: 1978-10-06
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Murder in the Dark
Overview: A womanizing journalist is on the outs with the cops who want him in jail and a mysterious "thin man" who wants him dead.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: da
Release Date: 1986-09-19
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Wild Flowers
Overview: Denmark in the 70's. The teenager Christoffer's parents Nisse and Maria have decided to move into a commune because they want to try the alternative lifestyle. But Christoffer doesn't like it and has trouble adapting. In school the others tease him because he lives in a commune. As a plan from the elders in the commune he starts in a Maoist group to learn about the real ways of the society. He doesn't like it but when his new girlfriend starts to see what he does as cool he goes into it. But at the same time the police start to suspect him to be the terrorist who blows up telephone booths around Copenhagen.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: da
Release Date: 1997-10-05
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Manslaughter
Overview: A college professor abandons his family and his career in order to champion his mistress, a student radical accused of killing a policeman.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: da
Release Date: 2005-08-26
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Murder in Paradise
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Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: da
Release Date: 1988-10-14
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Bedside Head
Overview: The young headmaster of a boy's boarding school has decided that due to the virility of his young charges, they are a sort of national treasure. He believes that his school should become co-educational as soon as possible. In order to raise funds for the changeover, the boys stay behind during their summer vacation and temporarily convert the school into a love hotel.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: da
Release Date: 1972-03-03
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Stealing Rembrandt
Overview: Two bumbling scrap metal thieves - father and son - steal the wrong painting during a museum heist. The painting turns out to be the only original Rembrandt painting in Denmark, and all hell breaks loose. What do you do when you've got Interpol, the Danish police and the entire Danish underworld on your heels? And who was this Rembrandt guy anyway?
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: da
Release Date: 2003-05-17
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Pure Hearts
Overview: To the mentally ill Kriss, the world is divided up into 'good and evil', just like in the old B&W melodrama, 'Pure Hearts', which Kriss and his fellow patient, Willy, spend their days repeatedly watching at the psychiatric ward. To Kriss this film is the bible. One day after a serious conflict with one of the hospital's other patients their viewing rights are retracted. Kriss is deeply frustrated by this, until he realises that Linda, the young girl in the film, actually exists in the shape of the film's star, the actress Ulla Vilstrup. Setting fire to the hospital, Kriss and Willy escape into the night, determined to find her, because life is what you make of it.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: da
Release Date: 2006-09-08
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Without a Stitch
Overview: When a high-school girl complains of her inability to reach sexual climax, her doctor suggests that she keep a diary of her sexual encounters. She does just that and soon finds herself caught up in a sexual merry-go-round that includes making a hardcore porno film in Sweden, an escapade with a German sadist and a lesbian encounter.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: da
Release Date: 1968-09-02
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Groovy Days
Overview: Henrik is young and in love and moves with his girlfriend Anne into a commune in the countryside. It is the dawn of the 70's, a time to challenge authority and experiment with relationships. Henrik is challenged too: His role as a man is exhibited and discussed, he has to learn how to sew, to sleep in the group bedroom, to share his inheritance with the commune and his beloved Anne with a lesbian.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: da
Release Date: 1996-04-26
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Dancer in the Dark
Overview: Selma, a Czech immigrant on the verge of blindness, struggles to make ends meet for herself and her son, who has inherited the same genetic disorder and will suffer the same fate without an expensive operation. When life gets too difficult, Selma learns to cope through her love of musicals, escaping life's troubles – even if just for a moment – by dreaming up little numbers to the rhythmic beats of her surroundings.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-09-01
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A Royal Affair
Overview: A young queen falls in love with her physician, and they start a revolution that changes their nation forever.
Genres: Drama History Romance
Original Language: da
Release Date: 2012-03-29
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Snart kommer tiden
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: da
Release Date: 2006-03-30
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Election Night
Overview: On election night we meet Peter, an idealistic young man, who suddenly discovers he has forgotten to vote. On his way to the polls he encounters a variety of taxi drivers, all racist in their way and Peter has to decide whether to stand up for his convictions or getting to the polls on time. The film won an Oscar for Best Live Action Short Film.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: da
Release Date: 1998-01-01
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Kærlighed uden stop
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: da
Release Date: 1989-02-03
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