Joen Højerslev

Joen Højerslev

Movies for Joen Højerslev...

The Promised Land
Title: The Promised Land
Character: Coachman
Released: October 5, 2023
Type: Movie
Denmark, 1755. Captain Ludvig Kahlen sets out to conquer a Danish heath reputed to be uncultivable, with an impossible goal: to establish a colony in the name of the king, in exchange for a royal title. A single-minded ambition that the ruthless lord of the region will relentlessly seek to put down. Kahlen's fate hangs in the balance: will his endevours bring him wealth and honour, or cost him his life...?
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Title: Guldfeber
Character: Carsten
Released: February 24, 2023
Type: TV
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The Great Silence
Title: The Great Silence
Character: Father Michael
Released: January 12, 2023
Type: Movie
Alma lives a humble and secluded life behind the walls of a contemporary Catholic convent in Denmark. As she prepares for her perpetual vows as a nun, her older brother Erik unexpectedly shows up. He is a recovering alcoholic and clearly depressed, yet Alma struggles to show him mercy, as his presence unearths a family secret she has desperately tried to suppress. With the ceremony impending, Alma begins to lose her footing and doubt whether she is worthy of the love of her God.
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Chrysanthemum
Title: Chrysanthemum
Character: Peter
Released: November 17, 2022
Type: Movie
After many years of separation, landscaper and part time dealer of illegal fireworks – Anders – is contacted by his father Thomas who is about to lose the family farm. To help his father, Anders returns home and starts a larger production of illegal fireworks and begins shipping it through the family's freight company. Through the traffic of fireworks, the family finds a way towards reconciliation and forgiveness for the first time since the family tragedy twenty years ago which Anders feels responsible for.
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Title: Nordland ’99
Character: Johan
Released: October 14, 2022
Type: TV
In a small town in 1999 a young man disappear. His friends set out on a search and discover some troubling details about their small town.
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Title: Det forsvundne ravkammer
Character: Erik
Released: April 10, 2022
Type: TV
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The Penultimate
Title: The Penultimate
Character: Vandaflæseren
Released: November 25, 2021
Type: Movie
The film is a Kafkaesque tale of an insignificant Water Inspector who arrives at a giant remote building in order to register the residents’ water meters. Before he knows of it, he finds himself trapped inside the building facing an “Alice in NO-Wonderland”-like maze of obstacles. In his attempt to escape, perception of reality, the rational, and the remnants of his human existence is turned upside down.
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Title: Vores sidste sommer
Character: Lars
Released: October 29, 2021
Type: TV
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The Shadow in My Eye
Title: The Shadow in My Eye
Character: Prisoner 2
Released: October 28, 2021
Type: Movie
On March 21st, 1945, the British Royal Air Force set out on a mission to bomb Gestapo's headquarters in Copenhagen. The raid had fatal consequences as some of the bombers accidentally targeted a school and more than 120 people were killed, 86 of whom were children.
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Margrete: Queen of the North
Title: Margrete: Queen of the North
Character: Folmer Jakobsen Lunge
Released: September 16, 2021
Type: Movie
1402. Queen Margrete I has gathered the Nordic kingdoms in a union, ruled through her adopted son, Erik. But a conspiracy is in the making and Margrete finds herself in an impossible dilemma that could shatter her life's work: The Kalmar Union.
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Title: Equinox
Character: Adult Falke
Released: December 30, 2020
Type: TV
Haunted by visions after her sister vanished with her classmates 21 years before, Astrid begins an investigation that uncovers the dark, eerie truth.
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A Calling
Title: A Calling
Character: Peter
Released: August 1, 2020
Type: Movie
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Kina
Title: Kina
Released: October 17, 2019
Type: Movie
Jan's only real friend is his blind father Mogens. When Jan's sister Lisbeth parks Mogens in a nursing home and Mogens apparently loses his will to live, Jan decides to give him something to live for: He stages a grand journey to China, in the middle of his two-room apartment in a desolate ghetto. China, a mythical land where Mogens once met the love of his life, Jans mother. But amidst the growing troubles of keeping the charade going, Jan meets a woman too.
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The Purity of Vengeance
Title: The Purity of Vengeance
Character: Fisher
Released: October 4, 2018
Type: Movie
Copenhagen, 2018. A frightening discovery is made in an old apartment. The subsequent investigation of Department Q leads them to an infamous institution for girls that was suddenly closed in the early sixties.
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Neon Heart
Title: Neon Heart
Released: October 2, 2018
Type: Movie
A story about three people chasing life and each other. Laura is on her way to a porn film casting. Niklas is trying to take care of two men with Down’s Syndrome, and Frederik is out to gain respect as a hooligan. In glimpses and fragments of past and present, we follow the three characters on a journey full of taboos and desires.
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Title: Ride Upon the Storm
Character: Svend
Released: September 24, 2017
Type: TV
The story centers on a family of priests: Johannes, Elisabeth and their sons August and Christian. Johannes is God-like to his sons - he gives, loves, and punishes. His favoritism for August and his disappointment with Christian forces both into making desperate choices in order to either gain his love or break free from him.
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Letters to Amina
Title: Letters to Amina
Character: Politimand
Released: March 9, 2017
Type: Movie
Janus has just left a psychiatric hospital after a suicide attempt. His only reason to live has been letters from his high school friend Amina. When the letters suddenly stop, Janus is sure that something terrible has happened to her. To make sure she is alright, he sets out to find her.
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Darkland
Title: Darkland
Character: Anton
Released: January 19, 2017
Type: Movie
Zaid is a successful heart surgeon with an expensive apartment and pregnant girlfriend. One night he gets a visit from his brother Yasin, who is desperate for money, but he refuses. Soon after, Yasin is found beaten to death and Zaid is overcome with guilt. As guilt gives way to anger, Zaid becomes a masked avenger and takes on Copenhagen's criminal underworld in his quest for justice.
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Father of Four: Wild Holiday
Title: Father of Four: Wild Holiday
Character: Eigil
Released: October 1, 2015
Type: Movie
A wild holiday of the father of four and his family.
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Grey Gold
Title: Grey Gold
Character: Bank Manager
Released: March 27, 2013
Type: Movie
Discarded by society, let down by their bank and evicted from their homes, three senior citizens plan a nice little bank robbery to set things right. But things don't go quite that easy...
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This Life
Title: This Life
Released: March 1, 2012
Type: Movie
The true story of the Fiils: a family of innkeepers who, during Nazi-Germany's occupation of Denmark, took up arms against the German occupiers. But in the fight for freedom, some must die so that others may live.
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Title: The Bridge
Character: Bo
Released: September 21, 2011
Type: TV
When a body is found on the bridge between Denmark and Sweden, right on the border, Danish inspector Martin Rohde and Swedish Saga Norén have to share jurisdiction and work together to find the killer.
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Camping
Title: Camping
Character: Lars
Released: September 4, 2009
Type: Movie
A grief-stricken dysfunctional family goes camping.
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Tomatprincippet
Title: Tomatprincippet
Character: Thomas
Released: June 1, 2009
Type: Movie
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Oneway-Ticket to Korsør
Title: Oneway-Ticket to Korsør
Released: September 18, 2008
Type: Movie
Rasmus defends his Ph.D in Danish literature entitled "The Romantic Idiot", but with his special qualifications there are not many jobs around. To reduce his study loan he settles for a temporary teaching job at an adult education programme in the provincial town of Korsør. Here, Rasmus meets a complex group of people and takes part in their lives. He falls dramatically in love with one of his pupils, Signe, who dreams of having a child with her partner, Camilla. Playing the role of a romantic idiot in Korsør just isn't plain sailing for Rasmus.
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Dancers
Title: Dancers
Character: Andreas
Released: March 14, 2008
Type: Movie
»Dancers« is centred round a dance school run by the bright and lively Annika and her no-nonsense mother. One day Annika meets Lasse and falls passionately in love. But there is something Lasse hasn't told her, something he has done that is not so easy to forgive. Confronting an unknown darkness in Lasse, and in herself, Annika is forced to recognize the high cost of saying yes to love.
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Offscreen
Title: Offscreen
Character: Lene's New Boyfriend
Released: August 18, 2006
Type: Movie
Actor Nicolas Bro reigns supreme in the role of Nicolas Bro – a man intent on making a film about himself. After his director friend Christoffer Boe lends him a camera, his selfmonitoring is so hair-raisingly private that it becomes impossible to separate fact from fiction.
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Lost Generation
Title: Lost Generation
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
An adaptation of Christian Kampmann's four novels about the two decades from 1954 to 1974 as experienced by the five sons and daughters of the Gregersen family.