Morten Grunwald
Also Known As: Walter Morten Grunwald
Biography: Born in Odense, Denmark on December 9th, 1934, Morten Grunwald is "World famous in Denmark" for several popular film roles. Most famous, however, will always be his Benny in all of the "Olsen Banden" films, where he starred alongside Ove Sprogøe and Poul Bundgaard. He attended Odense Theatrical School in 1958 and graduated from The Royal Theater of Denmark's Theatrical School in 1962. Since 1971, he has been the director of several theatres in Copenhagen: Bristol Teatret (1971-1980), Betty Nansen Teatret (1980-1992), Østre Gasværk (1992-1998).
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Odense, Denmark
Birthday: December 09, 1934
Deathday: November 14, 2018
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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The Olsen Gang
Overview: The first of 14 Olsen Gang films presents us with Egon Olsen, head of the gang, and his friends Benny and Kjeld, who want to become the best known gang in Denmark and eventually Europe by stealing a famous Bavarian work of art currently displayed in a Copenhagen museum. Although Egon's plan works out fine, there is only trouble ahead for the little gang.
Genres: Family Comedy Crime
Original Language: da
Release Date: 1968-10-11
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The Olsen Gang in Jutland
Overview: The Olsen gang in Jutland. Ones again Egon Olsen has a plan when he gets out of Vridslose State Prison. He has found out that the Germans left a large sum of money (in American dollars and gold bars) in one of their commando bunkers, when they were defeated in 1945; the only problem it's in Jutland. Egon, Benny and Kjeld "appropriate" a car and drives to Jutland along with Kjelds wife and child Yvonne and Borge. They look forward to fooling the the people in Jutland, but of course, things don't go quite as planed. It ends with Benny, Kjeld, Borge and Yvonne sitting in the train back to Copenhagen, were they are overtaken by Egon in his car on the road next to the track. This is the last time the Olsen gang goes to Jutland.
Genres: Family Comedy Crime
Original Language: da
Release Date: 1971-10-08
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The Olsen Gang on the Track
Overview: Egon and his two cronies managed to sneak a fortune with them to Spain. Here they live a life in a whirl of pleasures, but they are not truly happy. While Egon always has the money chained to him, Bøffen still manages to steal them. Egon ends up in jail once again, and when he comes out, he has a brilliant plan.
Genres: Family Comedy Crime
Original Language: da
Release Date: 1975-09-26
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The Olsen Gang Sees Red
Overview: Egon and the gang are hired to stage a robbery of an antique Chinese vase for an economically challenged baron. Naturally they fooled, which infuriates Egon. The gang tries to get back at the baron by switching the vase with a cheap Hong Kong copy. One attempt is made during the barons hunting party, where Egon ends up being bricked up in the catacombs. In another attempt, the gang has to coordinate breaking through several walls at The Royal Theater in Copenhagen with the "Elverhøj" overture.
Genres: Family Comedy Crime
Original Language: da
Release Date: 1976-10-01
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Days in My Father's House
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Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: da
Release Date: 1968-11-11
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Martha
Overview: The oldest ship in the fleet, Martha, and her jolly crew, must race Harald and win, or it's the scrappers next.
Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: da
Release Date: 1967-10-10
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The Olsen Gang in a Fix
Overview: A good looking female social welfare worker makes Egon Olsen forget about crimes for some time, but when an American gangster breaks into a local bank and the police think its Egon's work, he has to get back to work to prove he's innocent.
Genres: Family Comedy Crime
Original Language: da
Release Date: 1969-10-03
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The Olsen Gang's Last Trick
Overview: Egon escapes from the psychiatric ward, where he has been incarcerated since the gang's last coup. Keld and Benny pick him up, and when Egon, as always, is planning the big heist, the Olsen Gang is once again on the move.
Genres: Family Comedy Crime
Original Language: da
Release Date: 1998-12-18
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The Last Exploits of the Olsen Gang
Overview: The Olsen Gang has finally made it. They are in Mallorca, having fulfilled their dream. Almost, that is. They don't have any money, so Egon has to open a safe at a restaurant to get some. As usual, however, Egon ends up in prision. When they return to Denmark, he has a new plan.
Genres: Family Comedy Crime
Original Language: da
Release Date: 1974-10-04
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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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The Olsen Gang Outta Sight
Overview: Egon is starting to be a little forgetful; he forgot the zone number, so he fails to open the strongbox. When he gets out of Vridslose State Prison, Kjeld and Benny have become associates of Yvonne's cousin Georg from America. He is not just some old-fashioned strongbox thief that can't remember like Egon, but a young hip IT criminal, that thinks that everyone else is inferior. However, Egon doesn't take lightly to the Georg's patronizing so he sabotages Georg's computer and ruins his cup. This time Egon's ambitions reaches a new high, when he and his gang break in to the World Bank, and they get away with it. Of course, thanks to Yvonne, they aren't rich very long.
Genres: Family Comedy Crime
Original Language: da
Release Date: 1977-09-30
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The Olsen Gang Never Surrenders
Overview: Egon plans to exploit knowledge gained during his latest term of incarceration. By stealing the unmanipulated financial records of DanInvest he obtains the majority of the stocks in the department store Magasin du Nord, just in time for their closing sale. The attempt to get the red suitcase that will save the day they rob the main vault at the EEC headquarters in Brussels and end up hijacking a tank.
Genres: Family Comedy Crime
Original Language: da
Release Date: 1979-12-26
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Relax Freddy
Overview: A Chinese diplomat is kidnapped from a conference in Genève and the world peace is at risk. The trail leads to a hiding place in Denmark and the Danish secret service brings in their best agent, agent Smith, who has been in a psychiatric hospital since his last assignment. To accompany Smith they once again turn to novelty and party tricks salesman Frede Hansen, because they need an unrecognizable man to infiltrate the crime syndicate behind the kidnapping.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: da
Release Date: 1966-06-05
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Strike First Freddy
Overview: Frede Hansen, a game salesman, is mistaken for a secret service agent on a ferry and kidnapped by enemy agents. He escapes and now the secret service want to use him as bait to track the enemy. They assign their best agent, Smith to be his partner and supervisor. Their main task is to eliminate the head of the enemy conspiracy, the mysterious 'Dr. Pax' who's real identity is unknown. Freddy accompanies Smith to Stockholm where they are to meet Sonja, an agent for Dr. Pax, who is also on Smith's liquidation list. Thanks to his bag of game tricks, Freddy manages to avoid being done in by Kolick, a killer for Dr. Pax. Freddy falls for Sonja, and he, she and Smith are taken as prisoners to Dr. Pax's hideout, a remote island fortress from which a major power is to be attacked by missiles guided by trained pigeons. Freddy manages to teach Dr. Pax a lasting lesson in the difference between trained pigeons and homing pigeons.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: da
Release Date: 1965-12-21
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Friends at Arms: On a Bear Run
Overview: The German bear Fido from Münich is sweet, easygoing and nice, and just loves Danish soldiers. Thus, the bear marches together with the recruits and even wants to share their beds in this strange Danish comedy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: da
Release Date: 1968-08-23
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The Olsen Gang's Big Score
Overview: After his usual stay behind bars, Egon has another cunning plan involving millions. They rob over 4 million from a money transport. The gang keeps a low profile and hide the money. But it's stolen by "Kongen" and "Knægten", who immediately start living it up - in the penthouse suite at the Sheraton. The suitcase with the money changes hands several times, before Kongen's daughter takes of with all the money.
Genres: Family Comedy Crime
Original Language: da
Release Date: 1972-10-06
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The Olsen Gang Runs Amok
Overview: When Egon Olsen gets out of Vridlose State Prision once again, his friends Benny and Kjeld do not want to know about his new ingenious plan: they are actually WORKING in a shop! Thus, he has to think of something else to get his hands on the money of some international gangster.
Genres: Family Comedy Crime
Original Language: da
Release Date: 1973-10-05
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The Olsen Gang Long Gone
Overview: Criminal genius Egon Olsen presents his accomplices Benny and Keld with yet another infallible plan that can only end badly. The booty is a red suitcase containing values worth five million. The sinister mastermind Bang-Johansen carries the suitcase. The Olsen Gang follows him to Paris, where they put their cunning and carefully organized plan into motion.
Genres: Family Comedy Crime
Original Language: da
Release Date: 1981-12-26
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The Olsen Gang Jumps the Fence
Overview: As usual, Egon has an ingenious plan. And, as usual, it works just fine until one of the gang members makes some kind of funny error. This time, however, even Egon's life is in danger, for some international criminals try to get rid of him by throwing him into a container filled with acid.
Genres: Family Comedy Crime
Original Language: da
Release Date: 1981-10-16
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White Night
Overview: A psychological drama about Ulrich, a workaholic whose life takes a drastic turn when he is involved in a fatal accident. As his guilt grows, his life slowly crumbles around him. Next, an unpleasant event from his past rears its unforgiving head.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: da
Release Date: 2007-10-26
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The Black Madonna
Overview: The Black Madonna is a 2007 action comedy film written by Nikolaj Peyk and Lasse Spang Olsen and directed by Lasse Spang Olsen.
Genres: Action Comedy Drama
Original Language: da
Release Date: 2007-03-09
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Landmandsliv
Overview: Danish movie from 1965
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: da
Release Date: 1965-10-01
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The Egborg Girl
Overview: The Egborg Girl (Danish: Pigen fra Egborg) is a 1969 Danish comedy film directed by Carl Ottosen and starring Dirch Passer.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: da
Release Date: 1969-09-12
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Een pige og 39 sømænd
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Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: da
Release Date: 1965-11-12
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Five men and Rosa
Overview: På et sygehus's 5 mandsstue - stue nummer 13 - ligger der 5 meget forskellige mænd, med meget forskellig baggrunde: Byretsdommer Winther, modedesigner Philip André , bankkasserer Madsen, den uforbederlige indbrudstyv Herluf "Smukke Arne" Jensen , og legationssekretær Konrad Konradsen. Legationssekretæren har begået en dumhed og er kommet i lommen på en pengeafpresseren Helmer Gamtofte . Han er i besiddelse af nogle kompromitterende billeder, som han opbevarer i en bankboks i den bank, hvor Madsen er ansat. Det mandfolkekammeratskab der opstår på stue 13, bliver drivkraften, der får byretsdommeren, til at foreslå "Smukke Arne" at hjælpe Konradsen og bryde ind i banken og tilegne billederne.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: da
Release Date: 1964-11-13
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Life with Daddy
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: da
Release Date: 1967-12-26
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Pretty-Arne and Rosa
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Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: da
Release Date: 1967-07-20
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Hip Hip Hurrah!
Overview: The life and times of the Scandinavian artists' colony who lived in Skagen on the Danish coast during the 1890s. Not so much a biographical account, rather a portrait of a way of life. The painters became famous for the way they used the light in their work, and this has also been mirrored in the cinematography.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: da
Release Date: 1987-09-04
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En af dagene
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: da
Release Date: 1963-03-07
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The Wolf at the Door
Overview: Chronicling a period of time in Paul Gauguin's life, this film follows him through his struggles in love and the financial problems caused by the inability to sell his artwork.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: da
Release Date: 1986-09-05
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Det var en lørdag aften
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Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: da
Release Date: 1968-06-27
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Dyden går amok
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Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: da
Release Date: 1966-03-24
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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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Pelsen
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: da
Release Date: 1971-10-30
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I den grønne skov
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: da
Release Date: 1968-03-29
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Nu stiger den
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Genres: Family Comedy
Original Language: da
Release Date: 1966-08-24
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Death Comes at High Noon
Overview: A dark evening, a crime writer Peter Sander, drives through a forest when his car runs out of petrol . A little distance from the road there is a house with lighted windows, and he goes there to borrow a phone. Suddenly he trips over a tree root and sprain one foot . He lags up the forest road . Then there is a shot, a moment after running steps. A beam cuts through the dark. It goes out . The steps moves away. Peter gets up and stomps up to the house . No one responds to his knokking.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: da
Release Date: 1964-07-31
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Hvad med os?
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: da
Release Date: 1963-09-27
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Det er ikke appelsiner - det er heste
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: da
Release Date: 1967-06-28
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En ven i bolignøden
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: da
Release Date: 1965-04-08
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Jetpiloter
Overview: Two brothers, Ras and Jan, have always been together during the long training to become jet pilots in the Danish Airforce. They both join squadron 793, where they will serve on active duty under the the young and very energetic squadron leader, Captain Tom Jessen.
Genres: Action Family Comedy
Original Language: da
Release Date: 1961-09-04
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Kassen stemmer
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Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: da
Release Date: 1976-08-02
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Along Came a Soldier
Overview: A soldier seeks justice against a group of men who murdered a prostitute.
Genres: Drama Romance Crime
Original Language: da
Release Date: 1969-04-07
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Løgn og løvebrøl
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: da
Release Date: 1961-08-24
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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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Only the Truth
Overview: A woman, Ilse Brehmer, finds the body of a dead man, a journalist. He has been murdered, and later when the body turns up in the harbor, the woman denies everything, even though witnesses has seen her nearby the crime scene. She simply can’t remember anything, but the detective on the case, Mørck, knows how to smell a lie and soon start to unravel this bloody mess.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: da
Release Date: 1975-08-22
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Hjerter er trumf
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: da
Release Date: 1976-03-19
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When a Man Comes Home
Overview: A small provincial town is buzzing with excitement: the town´s most illustrious son, a world-famous opera singer, is coming home. Meanwhile, Sebastian, a kitchen boy who is as good as married, falls head over heels in love with the new maid, Maria. Their love affair, along with rumours that the opera singer and the kitchen boy are related, turns the town upside down, threatening to ruin everyone´s high expectations and the opera singer´s triumphant return.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: da
Release Date: 2007-09-14
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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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Silent Heart
Overview: The prestigious Danish filmmaker Bille August, winner of an Academy Award and two Palme d'Or in Cannes, returns with a highly personal drama. Three generations of a family gather over a weekend. The sisters Sanne and Heidi have accepted their terminally-ill mother’s desire to die before her disease worsens; but, as the weekend progresses, their mother's decision becomes harder and harder to deal with, and old conflicts come to the surface.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: da
Release Date: 2014-11-13
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Asger Jorn
Overview: Portrait about the legendary abstract painter Asger Jorn told by painter and poet Per Kirkeby.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-01-01
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Ballerup Boulevard
Overview: A film about one fourteen year old girl whose happy life ends when the family's economic status changes at the family firm crashes and her mother who gets in prison because of creative accounting. The girl loses most of her friends, but regains zest for life when she along with a single friend forms a rock band that achieves great success at a school dance
Genres: Drama
Original Language: da
Release Date: 1986-10-03
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Amour
Overview: This three-part movie begins with a young woman married to an older, cold-hearted man in the year 1200. Two rivals have a swordfight over the affections of the woman. Part two takes place in 1910 and finds an amorously unfaithful wife taking on her many lovers while her unsuspecting husband lurks nearby. The final part finds a count and countess engaging in extramarital affairs in France during the 1840s.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: da
Release Date: 1970-08-06
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Den dobbelte mand
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Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: da
Release Date: 1976-04-19
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I morgen, min elskede
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: da
Release Date: 1971-04-16
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The Experiment
Overview: THE EXPERIMENT is the story of the nurse Gert, who is appointed as headmistress of a special children's home, owned by the Danish state in Greenland, 1951. The children's home is intended to accommodate 16 carefully selected Greenlandic children, who have just come home after a year of civilization in Denmark. Now they are to be introduced into the Greenlandic community as role models. Gert, who lives alone and has no family, accepts the assignment with pride. She is idealistic and ambitious and feels passionate about saving Greenland from destitution. The means to this end is to educate and civilize the 16 children in the Danish language and culture, so they can spearhead Greenland's transformation from being a poor hunter society to being an equal part of Denmark. Due to her blind faith in the experiment, Gert underestimates the obvious personal costs to the children. And when the children as well as the Danish state fail her...
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: da
Release Date: 2010-09-09
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Historien om Olsen Banden
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: da
Release Date: 2015-03-22
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Vitello
Overview: Vitello is brimming with energy and has good friends in Max and Hasse, but misses having a father in his life, so he decides to go off in search of one, only to find he isn't the person Vitello was quite expecting.
Genres: Family Animation
Original Language: da
Release Date: 2018-02-01
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Selvmordsskolen
Overview: Bizarre satiric tale about an ordinary Danish man disappointed in life and the welfare system. Close to a total collapse he decides to take the easy way out. He seeks help at Doctor X, head of a suicide school that guarantees 100% efficiency.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: da
Release Date: 1964-03-30
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The Olsen Gang: Forever!
Overview: In 50 years anniversary of the first film about The Olsen Gang appeared in Danish cinemas. The film series and its beloved characters are described in this documentary with selected film clips and through a mix of old archival footage and new interviews. The Olsen Gang forever! is an entertaining tribute series' cinematic universe, which has long since become Danish people's property and part of common cultural heritage.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: da
Release Date: 2018-11-27
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I Stykker
Overview: Open marriages, friends and lovers, secrets and lies are all coming to light after a fatal accident during a party. Was it murder? Early Leif Panduro drama.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: da
Release Date: 1966-11-21
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Den store kul-tur
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Genres: TV Movie Comedy
Original Language: da
Release Date: 1996-01-01
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I Wonder Who's Kissing You Now
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Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: da
Release Date: 1998-09-04
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Superfos Glasuld – et isoleret tilfælde
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Genres: Comedy Crime Family
Original Language: da
Release Date: 1976-01-01
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En mand
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: da
Release Date: 1971-02-19
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