Leif Sylvester
Also Known As: Leif Sylvester Petersen
Biography: Leif Sylvester is a Danish painter, graphic artist, musician and actor. He took his stage name Sylvester as real name, after being mistaken for the author Leif Petersen born 1934.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Copenhagen, Denmark
Birthday: April 18, 1940
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Otto Is a Rhino
Overview: The boy Topper is bored. He finds a pencil that proves to have magical powers. Draw a rhino, and right away, you have a real rhino for a companion. A little heavy perhaps, when you live on the second floor. No matter, it's a modern fairy-tale of the baroque, and everything goes. Based on kiddie entertainment by Ole Lund Kirkegaard, but as was the case with the book, the fun is to be enjoyed by one and all.
Genres: Family Comedy
Original Language: da
Release Date: 1983-03-25
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Pusher II
Overview: Tonny is released from prison - again. This time he has his mind set on changing his broken down life, but that is easier said than done.
Genres: Crime Drama Action
Original Language: da
Release Date: 2004-12-25
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Black Pete – No, You're It
Overview: A drama-documentary film about the fatal effect of poor living conditions on health – the so-called "social inheritance." The principal characters in the film are two fourteen or fifteen-year-old children, Carl and Hanne. Covering a hundred-year period and drawing on case stories recorded by actual hospital staff, the film illustrates a number of variations of "the same old story."
Genres: Drama
Original Language: da
Release Date: 1980-10-14
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Tarzan Mama Mia
Overview: Eleven-year old Rikke lives alone with her father, whose only interest in life seems to be the soccer matches which appear on his television. Not surprisingly, Rikke is somewhat bored. She enters a contest put on by a cereal company which has as its grand prize a horse. Since she lives in the city in a second floor apartment, it never occurred to her that she might win, but win she does. The horse ("Mama-Mia") duly appears, and she and the members of her slum neighborhood come together to cope with the situation in a delightful way.
Genres: Family
Original Language: da
Release Date: 1989-09-22
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Hodja from Pjort
Overview: Inspired by tales from "Arabian Nights", with many a touch of magic, but primarily based on a book by Denmark's Ole Lund Kirkegaard, a master of the baroque stories for children, this adventurer takes the boy Hodja on a flying carpet outing. The boy wants to see the world and asks his girl-friend Emerald along. But an evil Sultan has his own designs on the carpet. Shot on Turkish locations with an extensive use of special effects.
Genres: Family Adventure
Original Language: da
Release Date: 1985-10-04
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Fish Out of Water
Overview: The early 1990s: 300,000 Danes are out of work. Viggo, a machinist with two grown children, is silent about feelings, scared he'll lose his job, loud about the value of trade unionism, interested in his pet fish, and argumentative at dinner. His wife Oda puts up with his moods and works on family genealogy. When Viggo is laid off, he becomes a fish out of water, hardly looking for work, starting a garden, and taking up with Karen, a polished but unhappy widow. He lies to his wife about a union training and goes to Mallorca with Karen. When she stops the affair, Viggo ends up in a psychiatric ward and must figure out what's really important in his life and in his character
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: da
Release Date: 1993-02-26
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The Circus Casablanca
Overview: Film about a pair of traveling entertainers and con-men and their problems with jobs, money and women. We follow them in a period there it goes downhill with engagements. It's hard for them to realize that entertainers of their kind are about to become extinct.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: da
Release Date: 1981-02-27
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Me and Charly
Overview: Steffen is a good kid, a teenager who has recently finished school and is looking for work. He lives with his widowed mother, a newspaper reporter. Very little throws him off his stride, whether it is his girlfriend's jealousy of his friendship with Charly, a reform-school boy, or his mother's drunken, playful amorousness one night, because he reminds her of his father.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: da
Release Date: 1978-03-19
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Carmen & Babyface
Overview: Set in 1962 during the Berlin crisis, the contented lifestyle of Carmen and her kid brother, whom she's nicknamed Babyface, comes to an abrupt end when their parents acrimoniously separate.
Genres: Family Drama
Original Language: da
Release Date: 1995-01-20
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Felix
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Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: da
Release Date: 1982-08-26
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The Revolt of the Thralls
Overview: A three part story about the plague, religion and revolt in Northern Europe in the period 1349 to 1542.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-10-08
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Carl, My Childhood Symphony
Overview: Combining the exultant sweep of epic period drama with the subtle intimacy of biography in a social perspective, this is a tale of materially impoverished childhood, struggling early manhood and an unrequited first love turned into good musical fortune for Carl Nielsen, one of the great composers of the 20th century. Based on the composer's autobiography, the film itself is designed to soar like a symphony.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: da
Release Date: 1994-02-04
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Gambler
Overview: A humorous documentary about Nicolas Winding Refn and his struggle to secure his family financially and help him get on with his life. Forced to file for personal bankruptcy after the failure of "Fear X" at the box office, Refn has only one chance to wipe the slate clean and continue his career as a filmmaker: produce sequels to his breakthrough movie "Pusher."
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: da
Release Date: 2006-04-20
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Rocking Silver
Overview: Old rockers, like soldiers, never die, they only pass away. Well, Erik Clausen turns nostalgia into a vivid tribute to the moods and manners of the 1950s Danish Rock'n Roll by picking up a group of dispersed fellow bandsmen from wherever life and fate have left them stranded to have them revive their group and relive the good old days. A spirit of social solidarity permeates throughout.
Genres: Music Drama
Original Language: da
Release Date: 1983-12-09
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The Cartel
Overview: The successful entrepreneur Lars Halbo returns to Denmark when he inherits the family firm, but when he refuses to cooperate in illegal cartel pricing, his little company comes under heavy pressure.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: da
Release Date: 2014-02-27
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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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Oldboys
Overview: Now in his fifties, Vagn leads a solitary life and plays football with a group of similarly aged men, some even older. After being left behind at a petrol station by his teammates on their way to a match in Sweden, he encounters a young habitual offender and together they set off in hot pursuit of Vagn's buddies. A Nordic road movie taking in a whole series of comic, serious and, above all, well-written scenarios.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: da
Release Date: 2009-12-25
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People Get Eaten
Overview: Herluf lives a complacent life with his wife Inger-Lise. Their daily routines are only interrupted by their daughter's marriages, the third now about to take place. But Herluf's problems are more serious than an indecisive daughter, his wife is cheating on him and he's started forgetting things at work. And one day Herluf doesn't return home.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: da
Release Date: 2015-02-26
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En loppe kan også gø
Overview: Rosa is a lonely 13 year old wearing a leg prosthesis. She lives with her single father in a small town.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: da
Release Date: 1996-10-11
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Restless Heart
Overview: Hugo is 18 years old, works in a garage in a provincial town, plays pool with his mates and dates teenage Betina. Hugo wants something else, but he doesn't know what - and it's hard for him to pull himself together. Until he meets student nurse Ester, who is in her 20s.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: da
Release Date: 1998-01-01
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Rainfox
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: da
Release Date: 1984-12-26
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A Caretaker's Tale
Overview: A custodian in a housing project discovers that a naked, mute woman he found in one of his apartments has miraculous healing powers.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: da
Release Date: 2012-03-25
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