Kirsten Olesen
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Biography: Kirsten Olesen is a Danish actress who since 1979 has been with Copenhagen's Royal Danish Theatre. In Denmark, she is known above all for taking the part of Agnes, a housemaid, in the popular television series Matador. Internationally, she has starred in the title role of Lars von Trier's Medea.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Aarhus, Danmark
Adult: No
Birthday: May 10, 1949
Age: 76 years old
Gender: Female
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Time Out
Overview: Drama about a young Dane who has traveled to America to find the father he can hardly remember. In New Mexico he gets to know the daughter of a political-religious fanatic who runs a "survival school". The young Dane is interested in the girl and admits to school. Later, however, there will be a violent showdown with the fanatic. But was this man, in fact, his father?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-02-12
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Spring Tide
Overview: Franco lives in a rough part of Copenhagen. His hooker mother has little time for him. Franco drifts into a life of crime, repeatedly confronting the authorities. To give him a new start, he’s placed in a foster home far away from Copenhagen. His new family greets him with warm hospitality. There’s also the beautiful countryside and, last but not least, the teen-aged daughter
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: da
Release Date: 1990-10-05
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Medea
Overview: It is an adaptation of the Greek tragedy Medea from Euripides, a version where the Gods willing and intervations are absent. Medea is the tragic character that after helping Jason in the Voyage of the Argonauts (myth says that she has even sacrificed her own brother for Jason's success), she gets from him only betrayal, as he arranges to marry the King's of Corinth daughter. The king decides to exile Medea, as she is a danger for his daughter happiness, but Medea asks from him just a day… before she goes outside the borders. That day Medea gets her revenge.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: da
Release Date: 1989-08-08
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Daisy Diamond
Overview: A tragic story about Anna who dreams of one thing only: making it as an actress. She moves from Sweden to Copenhagen to pursue her dream. But fate has something else in store for her. Though she struggles to give her 4-month-old daughter a good start in life, she ultimately fails to unite her dream of acting with a safe and loving environment for her child, culminating in a desperate act that has fatal consequences for Anna and her daughter.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: da
Release Date: 2007-11-23
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Accused
Overview: On the surface Henrik and Nina Christofferson are an ordinary family living happily. But they have a problem. Their daughter, Stine, a difficult 14 year old, has a habit of telling lies in class. When Stine accuses her father of sexual abuse, and is believed by seemingly eager social workers, their family is thrust into crisis. Could Henrik have done it? And when Stine prepares to return home, the ugly side of family life is exposed.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: da
Release Date: 2005-01-28
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As in Heaven
Overview: One day at the end of the 1800s, 14-year-old Lise’s life is changed forever. She is the eldest of her siblings, the first in her family to go to school and full of hope and confidence in life. But when her mother goes into labour, it quickly appears that something is wrong. As night falls and the labour progresses, Lise begins to understand that a day that began in childhood might end with her becoming the woman of the house.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: da
Release Date: 2021-09-19
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Rebounce
Overview: REBOUNCE is a colorful, tough and powerful film featuring Frederikke Dahl Hansen in the leading role. She plays opposite Anne Sofie Espersen and Dar Salim, and despite being only 16 years old she portrays toughness, charm, and vulnerability admirably. REBOUNCE is an intense drama. Louise's mother is just out of prison and in the eyes of a teenager she's cool, tough and enchanting. To win her love, Louise follows her lead and enters a world of partying, drugs, fast cash and men. Meanwhile, everyone seems to forget that she is just a teenager
Genres: Drama
Original Language: da
Release Date: 2011-04-28
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Hvor lyset kommer ind
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Original Language: da
Release Date: 2013-04-09
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Stains
Overview: An artist finds herself at a residency in the northern part of Jutland. Her need for control in every aspect of her life is challenged… both by herself and by an older artist who is seemingly able to see right through her younger counterpart.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: da
Release Date: 2022-11-15
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In My Life
Overview: A young man finds love and settles down, but when his young wife spirals into depression they both have decisions to make.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: da
Release Date: 1978-08-21
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Truck-driver
Overview: This trucker road movie tells the story of four men driving 30-ton meat-carriers in shuttle service between Denmark and Italy. Against their will, the truckers get involved in criminal activities that flourish as a result of European custom service bureaucracy. Their bonding as friends and their strongly rooted family life help them through.
Genres: Family Comedy
Original Language: da
Release Date: 1981-09-07
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In Your Hands
Overview: Anna, a young theology graduate, starts work as a prison chaplain. She becomes especially concerned about one inmate, Kate, regarded as difficult and withdrawn, but whom the other inmates credit with mysterious healing powers.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: da
Release Date: 2004-01-23
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When Heaven Falls
Overview: Sara was placed in care aged 11. Now 28 she hears her mother has died. She goes to the funeral and realises her brother and father don't recognise her so keeps quiet about her identity. When watching her father's house, she finds out she has two younger sisters, and realises that what's going on connects to her childhood...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: da
Release Date: 2009-12-01
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Sigurd Fafnersbane
Overview: An animated retelling of the legendary hero Sigurd of Norse folklore.
Genres: Animation Fantasy
Original Language: da
Release Date: 1981-05-10
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Something in the Air
Overview: When clairvoyant Pernille meets Journalist Daniel, who is on a mission to write an exposé about Fact & Fiction in the clairvoyant world, Daniel falls in love with her. And funnily enough, she hadn't seen it coming.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: da
Release Date: 2011-11-10
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Did Somebody Laugh?
Overview: The late 1930s. A young enemployed, unskilled worker walks through the streets of Copenhagen, sustaining himself partly on the dole and free soup-kitchen meals and partly on day-dreams. He spends time at a cemetry studying headstone inscriptions. Mild-mannered and of poetic bent, he understands little of an intellectual friend's advice and shies away from the love of a woman who shares her bed with him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: da
Release Date: 1978-09-14
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Images of Liberation
Overview: Set in Copenhagen during World War II, the film follows a German officer who visits his Danish mistress in the days after the occupation of Denmark has ended.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: da
Release Date: 1982-06-30
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In Your Arms
Overview: When Maria meets Niels for the first time, he comes across as an angry and unsympathetic young man. His chronic illness has been concentrated into a single wish—to go to a Swiss nursing home for euthanasia. But in order to get there, he needs a volunteer escort.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: da
Release Date: 2015-01-25
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My Granny's House
Overview: Danish author Soya's acidly funny turn-of-the-century memoir novel turned into a robust black comedy. After his mother's death, tiny tot Søren goes to live with his wilful, rich and stingy Granny, who wants to improve his manners. She also wants to make him sole heir to her fortune, which everybody else covets. Mutual respect, even love, develops between the two. And death by poison enlivens things.
Genres: Family Drama
Original Language: da
Release Date: 1984-08-31
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The Sun Has Died
Overview: A young woman is terrorized while working the night shift, cleaning a remote kindergarten, in this intense first-person horror film.
Genres: Thriller Horror
Original Language: da
Release Date: 2015-04-27
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Helligtrekongersaften
Overview: Disguised as a man, Viola (Kirsten Olesen) is stranded in the wonderland of Illyria where she awakens the love of the beautiful Olivia (Susse Wold). Viola herself falls in love with Duke Orsino (Nis Bank-Mikkelsen) who in turn is in love with Olivia.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance TV Movie
Original Language: da
Release Date: 1981-08-16
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Elise
Overview: In a sexual and romantic drama of intrigue, lies, and gossip, a young woman over a long period of time, has children by both men, her husband and lover before her deception begins to fall apart. Elise (Ann-Mari Max Hansen) is an outgoing, happy woman married to Henry (Ole Ernst), the town doctor. Because of a mix-up one day, she finds herself first compromised and then romantically involved with William (Henning Jensen), a captain of the Dragoons. Her story is told from the viewpoint of the town vicar, who may not be such an innocent bystander as he first seems. Eventually, gossip begins to run rampant, and Elise's life heads for a radical change.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: da
Release Date: 1985-09-06
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Robin
Overview: You can run into anything in the Danish woods, but a naked woman covered in blood is not something you see every day. Her name is Robin and she not only claims to have witnessed a gruesome murder but also to having killed her assailant in self-defense. The problem is that the police doesn’t find any trace to prove what happened to her. It remains a complete mystery. Robin feels abandoned by the police, who clearly think she’s the victim of an overactive imagination. Ever her husband and her sister have all the trouble in the world to believe her. She reaches a chilling conclusion. If she didn’t kill the murderer, he must still be out there, wanting to end what he started.
Genres: Thriller Mystery
Original Language: da
Release Date: 2017-04-14
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Wildwitch
Overview: 12-year-old Clara is just like any other girl, until one day a mysterious black cat scratches her. Clara soon discovers that she can communicate with the cat and that she belongs to a family of Wild Witches with a strong connection to nature and animals. It turns out that Clara is a very special Wild Witch and that her blood can set free the ancient and evil witch, Bravita Bloodyoung.
Genres: Family Fantasy
Original Language: da
Release Date: 2018-11-01
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That's me too
Overview: Stine is eighteen and has finished school. Her parents have are divorced, and the father has a new wife. Stine is not so anxious finding a regular job, She would like to be an actor.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: da
Release Date: 1980-02-29
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The Lost Treasure of the Knights Templar II
Overview: In 1361 the Danish King Valdemar's troops approached the city walls of Visby, Gotland. Meanwhile, a young woman named Sigrid was leaving tracks all over the place leading to the whereabouts of a great treasure.She was able to fulfill her mission before being captured and immured alive in a tower, as punishment for not revealing the whereabouts of the treasure. Currently Kathrine, 14, and his three friends have to follow the tracks of 700 years ago during the Medieval Week celebration in Visby to rescue his father, who has been kidnapped, and find the lost treasure. But the fearful and dangerous Black Brotherhood lies in wait.
Genres: Family Adventure Action
Original Language: da
Release Date: 2007-03-29
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Sorg-agre
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: da
Release Date: 1987-05-04
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The Stranger
Overview: Tommy is not doing much of anything with his life or the money he has inherited except smoking weed. His parents have high hopes for him and he is bound to disappoint them. Then one day a Thai prostitute on the run from criminal forces her way into his apartment and Tommy finds himself at a crossroad.
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Original Language: da
Release Date: 2015-06-12
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Indien
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: da
Release Date: 1999-01-01
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Trækfugle
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: da
Release Date: 2001-11-26
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Bare Holger
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Original Language: da
Release Date: 2005-06-01
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Food Club
Overview: Three longtime girlfriends from elementary school, very different women, have one thing in common: they are in the fall of their lives and they all feel how ruthless old age can be. Marie is abandoned by her husband on Christmas Eve, and her entire identity as part of a happy family crumbles. Berling is the eternal "bachelor" who outwardly denies her age and lives the sweet life, but in the backdrop she is affected by a complicated relationship with her daughter. Vanja lives in the memories of her late husband and has difficulty moving on. The three travel to Italy together to attend a food course in Puglia, where they each have an opportunity to redefine themselves.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: da
Release Date: 2020-10-22
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The Boy Who Disappeared
Overview: Fed up with his quarreling middle class parents, thirteen-year-old Jonas runs away from home. He seeks his freedom in the woods, where he befriends a girl his own age and a drunken ex-pilot, who offers him some warmth and understanding.
Genres: Family Drama
Original Language: da
Release Date: 1984-02-17
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Johannes' hemmelighed
Overview: Johannes is upset because his parents have divorced and because his father never phones him. Before going to bed he wants his mother to read something from the Bible for him, instead of one of the usual stories from Superman. She reads some lines from the Revelation of St. John. Johannes asks her what "the end is near" means. She explains that it is when Jesus comes back, and sends the good people to Paradise and the evil ones to Hell. In the middle of the night Johannes sees a dazzling light and lots of water pouring out from the toilet. Suddenly an androgynous being is standing in the bathroom. Johannes thinks it's Jesus, and the being doesn't deny it. Johannes asks Jesus if his parents are going to Hell, as he thinks they are evil.
Genres: Family
Original Language: da
Release Date: 1985-12-06
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Rødtotterne og Tyrannos
Overview: Seven 12-year-olds fight against property speculators and local officials who intend to replace a treasured forest with a concrete building jungle.
Genres: Family Adventure Drama Fantasy
Original Language: da
Release Date: 1988-10-14
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Albert
Overview: When Albert's best friend Egon goes missing, Albert embarks on an adventure to find him. Along the way he meets Sabrina and together they must save Egon.
Genres: Action Family
Original Language: da
Release Date: 1998-10-09
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Ein Sommer in Dänemark
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Genres: Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2016-10-30
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