Peter Hesse Overgaard

Peter Hesse Overgaard

Born: May 19, 1954
in Denmark

Movies for Peter Hesse Overgaard...

The Food Club
Title: The Food Club
Released: October 22, 2020
Type: Movie
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.
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Title: The Sommerdahl Murders
Character: Preben Wust
Released: March 1, 2020
Type: TV
A love triangle between Dan Sommerdahl, his wife Marianne Sommerdahl and their best friend Flemming Torp occurs as they try to solves killings in Helsingør.
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Where Have All the Good Men Gone
Title: Where Have All the Good Men Gone
Character: Slagterichef
Released: May 20, 2016
Type: Movie
Realizing that her unknown biological father is probably alive, Sofia leaves behind a degrading and humiliating life and embarks on a journey with her naive half-sister Olivia, both girls hoping to find the caring father figure they so desperately need.
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Title: Seaside Hotel
Character: Kontorchef Hjalmar Aurland
Released: December 30, 2013
Type: TV
At Andersen’s Seaside Hotel by the North Sea dunes, meet three young people as they try to emancipate themselves from the plans other people have made on their behalf.
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Excuse Me
Title: Excuse Me
Character: Taxi driver 1
Released: January 5, 2012
Type: Movie
A story about the beautiful but confused young woman Helene, who, according to her mother, was born as a 'technical error'. Helene suspects that her father, who left his family before Helene was born, might be the once celebrated director of a dilapidated theater in Copenhagen. Assisted by a series of bizarre coincidences and by her mother's dog (a creature in whose shadow Helene has always lived), Helene manages to get closer to her father.
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Bedemanden
Title: Bedemanden
Character: Skolelærer
Released: June 1, 2011
Type: Movie
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Title: Those Who Kill
Character: Frederik Herning
Released: March 13, 2011
Type: TV
Based on an original idea by best-selling Danish novelist Elsebeth Egholm, the series follows the inquiries of a special unit at Copenhagen's police force, consisting of detective inspector Katrina Ries Jensen and forensic psychiatrist Thomas Schaeffer. The pair specialise in serial killers that do not fit within traditional behavioural patterns.
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Tomatprincippet
Title: Tomatprincippet
Character: Svend
Released: June 1, 2009
Type: Movie
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Sunshine Barry & the Disco Worms
Title: Sunshine Barry & the Disco Worms
Character: Far
Released: September 7, 2008
Type: Movie
It's not easy to be Barry. An earthworm gets no respect. He lives at the bottom of the food chain. But one day, an old disco record turns his life upside down. Suddenly he sees before him his own destiny, the star of the world's greatest disco band: Sunshine Barry & The Disco Worms! Okay, he's got no arms, no rhythm and no band. But as Barry says: "We'll do it anyway!"
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Terribly Happy
Title: Terribly Happy
Released: July 15, 2008
Type: Movie
Robert Hansen, 34, a young police officer from Copenhagen, is transferred against his will to the small town of Skarrild in Southern Jutland as a substitute Marshall. The transfer is Robert’s chance to start over. Whether he is allowed to return to his job in Copenhagen, all depends on how well he performs in this frontier town.
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The Gold of Valhalla
Title: The Gold of Valhalla
Released: October 12, 2007
Type: Movie
Three siblings, Sofie, Jonas and Emma, move to Copenhagen when their father is appointed a job at the National Museum. One day, the ancient Norse gods, Loki, Thor and Heimdal, materialize to prevent the museum's legendary golden horns from falling into the wrong hands and threatening the human race with extinction. Because the divine powers of the gods aren't too efficient in a modern, hi-tech world, the kids step in and come to their rescue.
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Just Like Home
Title: Just Like Home
Character: Lindy Steen
Released: March 30, 2007
Type: Movie
The tale of a troubled small town, and the brave few who made it their mission to keep the community together. As the citizens of a secluded Danish town gradually lose their trust in one and other, the sight of a naked man walking through town in the early hours of the morning sets off an unsettling wave of paranoia.
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The Substitute
Title: The Substitute
Character: Skoleinspektør Maele
Released: March 13, 2007
Type: Movie
6th Grade gets a new substitute teacher. She wants to train the class for an international competition in Paris. But something isn't right. How is she able read kids' minds? Why is she so mean? And how does she manage to convince everyone's parents she is so great when the whole class knows she is really an alien?
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We Shall Overcome
Title: We Shall Overcome
Character: Erling
Released: March 24, 2006
Type: Movie
A drama about a boy who's inspired by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and challenges repressive school authority in 1969 Denmark.
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Young Andersen
Title: Young Andersen
Character: Rahbek
Released: March 11, 2005
Type: Movie
A powerful modern film narrative, set in a historical framework, about the crucial encounter between vulnerable eighteen-year-old Hans Christian Andersen, who rates himself so highly, and Mr. Meisling, the cynical school principal. An encounter that fundamentally transforms Hans Christian's life.
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Lost Generation
Title: Lost Generation
Character: Jørgen
Released: December 17, 2004
Type: Movie
The film is based on Christian Kampmann's novels: "Certain Considerations", "Solid Relationships", "Clean Lines" and "Other Ways" (1973-75). The Gregersen family is a picture of inner and outer Denmark from the mid 50's to the 70's. The story begins in 1954 in the well-behaved, but not just successful, Gregersen family from the best part of the whiskey belt on the right side of Strandvejen.
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Title: Better Times
Character: Ingeniør Funder
Released: January 4, 2004
Type: TV
Krøniken is a Danish television drama which aired on Sunday evenings between January 2004 and January 2007. The 22-episode series relates the lives of two fictional families during the historical development of the Danmarks Radio television network from the 1950s to the 1970s. Created by Stig Thorsbøe for the DR broadcast-television network, the series debuted on 4 January 2004. The program's first season set popularity records. Five of the episodes were listed among the ten most watched television programs since records began in Denmark in 1992. The first season finale topped the list with 2,717,000 viewers. In 2004, the program was nominated for the International Emmy Award for Best Drama but lost to Waking the Dead. The series concluded with the 22nd episode airing on 1 January 2007 and watched by 2.4 million viewers.
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Title: Defense
Character: Søndergaard
Released: September 21, 2003
Type: TV
Court drama about a Copenhagen law office and the cases and personal entanglements of its small group of attorneys.
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Facing the Truth
Title: Facing the Truth
Released: October 24, 2002
Type: Movie
In his new film, an intriguing and delicately crafted drama, Malmros portrays the poignant story of a man, who grew up in very modest circumstances in the early years of the 20th century, but whose diligence, intelligence and willingness to endure hardship helped him to become a leading brain surgeon. A success story on the face of it, but a story about a man - who is none other than the director's father - a man of powerful emotions. The film explores the nature and origin of the guilt that repeatedly deprived him of happiness.
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Jewel of the Desert
Title: Jewel of the Desert
Character: Hr. Snudeskaft
Released: February 2, 2001
Type: Movie
To tyve overhører delvis en samtale. De hører at en kamel har slugt en juvel – og ikke at kamelen er ørkenens juvel. De stikker af og forsøger at få fat i kamelen. Samtidig kommer to børn på besøg i byen. De er i familie med byens betjent. Betjenten vil beslaglægge kamelen, men tyvene kommer ham i forkøbet. Generalen bliver meget ked af det, da kamelen er væk. Efterhånden får generalen og børnene fundet tyvene og kamelen og så går jagten ellers i gang. © Copyright 1997-2012, Lone Hansen & Per Kjær Fredborg
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Bye Bye Blue Bird
Title: Bye Bye Blue Bird
Character: Barba's Stepfather
Released: July 30, 1999
Type: Movie
Two friends, Rannvá and Barba, return to Faroe Islands after seven years abroad. The girls arouse both curiosity and outrage with their bizarre city appearance and emancipated behaviour. They embark on a road trip with one of the locals, Rúni, who - as it turns out - also carries a dark secret. The trio goes on a journey not just through the beautiful landscape of the Faroes but into the land of the past.
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The Art of Success
Title: The Art of Success
Character: Ted
Released: November 14, 1998
Type: Movie
In the old days, things were different. Art, too. It assembled and passed on human experience and knowledge. But in today's Denmark, something else is wanted from art. It has to experiment and break new ground. It is almost a political requirement. The more conventional the politics, the harsher the politically correct requirements for the artist. Sliced up, rotting pigs are not enough anymore! Art must move on. But how can the poor artist surpass his predecessors and become a success?
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Barbara
Title: Barbara
Character: Mr. Wenzel
Released: October 2, 1997
Type: Movie
Young vicar Mr. Paul arrives at the Faroe Islands to take up a benefice, and meets the young Barbara, twice married to vicars, and with both husbands laid cold in the grave. Despite the warnings of the surrounding community and his own religious scruples, he falls victim to Barbara's at once innocent and sinful charm. The appearance of the charming and gallant Andreas Heide in Thorshavn puts their love to the severest of tests.
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Title: En fri mand
Character: Bistrup
Released: December 25, 1996
Type: TV
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Body Switch
Title: Body Switch
Released: October 6, 1995
Type: Movie
A dying elderly scientist proposes love-sick Jonas a cure that will improve the youngster's physical skills and general sex-appeal. What the scientist really aims to accomplish is a body switch: he wants to survive in a young man's body and gladly leaves Jonas to wake up in his own wasted frame. Jonas must somehow signal his predicament to his friends. Both men rev up for a survival-of-the-fittest chase.
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Two on a Couch
Title: Two on a Couch
Character: Søren
Released: October 27, 1994
Type: Movie
A story of a strong friendship between two men and their single life in Copenhagen in the nineties. The modern Don Juan, Pierre, and his good friend and contrast, the painter Søren. The two of them stick together when nothing works their way. A black comedy of love, eroticism, loneliness and fate.
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The Silent Touch
Title: The Silent Touch
Character: Joseph
Released: September 30, 1992
Type: Movie
Henry Kesdi is a silenced classical composer and a survivor of the Holocaust. He is coaxed out from retirement by an inspired musicologist, Stefan, who convinces him to compose a complex symphony on his neglected piano. As a help Kesdi gets his new musical secretary. His loyal wife reluctantly accepts her as his young lover.
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Sofie
Title: Sofie
Released: September 25, 1992
Type: Movie
Liv Ulmann's directorial debut also had her co-authoring the screenplay (with poet Peter Poulsen) as based on a Henri Nathansen's 1932 novel about an affluent late 19th century Jewish merchant family in Copenhagen. Ulmann focuses on strong-willed daughter Sofie's progress through life: a love affair with a gentile painter, an arranged marriage , childbirth and ever more fateful challenges.
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Title: Landsbyen
Released: September 28, 1991
Type: TV
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Casanova
Title: Casanova
Released: December 7, 1990
Type: Movie
Farcial action fun with Bertil and Hugo, who do menial jobs at a big city hotel. Bertil is about to marry and has put money aside for his bride's morning gift. Only Hugo has kind of borrowed the money and blown it all on a wrong bet in a pigeon race. Together, they obviously have to get rich quick. When a diamond seems to be lying around for the taking, the hotel is virtually on its head.
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Good People
Title: Good People
Character: The Dane
Released: July 13, 1990
Type: Movie
A father and his son move to small village in the south of Sweden. One day, the boy finds an injured bird. He skips the school and spend more time in the woods with the bird.
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Syrup
Title: Syrup
Character: Lasse
Released: March 16, 1990
Type: Movie
In this wry comedy, the self-deceiving exploits of Lasse (Peter Hesse Overgaard), are shown, as he more or less innocently runs small cons on the people in his life, all the while sponging off of his girlfriend in a bohemian quarter of Copenhagen. He is a no-count, but fairly handsome young stud who imagines that he is some sort of art promoter, or is perhaps even a video artist himself.
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The Miracle in Valby
Title: The Miracle in Valby
Released: October 6, 1989
Type: Movie
14 year old Sven is a technical genius, who has rebuilt an old caravan into a radio communication center. Via radio he is in contact with his father, who works at a big ship at the other side of the globe. One day the radio communication is suddenly interrupted by something which sounds like a Latin mass. In school Sven attends a lesson about radio-astronomy. The teacher explains that astronomers can receive radio waves that are thousand years old. Sven understands that the Latin mass he heard was transmitted to him from another age. He gets curious and starts making experiments by connecting his radio kit to bigger aerials. When he sits in the caravan together with his friends Bo and Petra, they not only hear the Latin mass on his radio, but the whole caravan is turned into a time-machine that brings them to the Middle Ages. They get in trouble with some warriors, who capture Petra, while Sven and Bo escape with the help of their time-machine...
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Title: Cirkus Julius
Character: Günther
Released: December 1, 1988
Type: TV
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Rødtotterne og Tyrannos
Title: Rødtotterne og Tyrannos
Released: October 14, 1988
Type: Movie
Seven 12-year-olds fight against property speculators and local officials who intend to replace a treasured forest with a concrete building jungle.
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Negerkys og labre larver
Title: Negerkys og labre larver
Character: Lærer
Released: October 9, 1987
Type: Movie
Dette er en historie om to piger på 11 år. Nana, som har en hund, men som egentlig bare drømmer om være en anset ballerina, og Conny, der er tvunget til at gå til ballet, men som har et brændende ønske om at være berømt dyrlæge. Hvad vil der blive af de to? Og hvad vil der ske, når de endelig møder det verdensberømte pop-idol Michael Jackson? Og hvad med Anders, drengen, som bliver efterladt med tvillingebørn og netop har fået en billet til VM i Mexico? Er du forvirret? Det er pigerne ikke. De har fundet den perfekte løsning på rodet – bare se med her og tag del i løjerne!
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Jeg elsker dig
Title: Jeg elsker dig
Character: Jens
Released: January 30, 1987
Type: Movie
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Burning Hearts
Title: Burning Hearts
Character: Ole Berg
Released: December 26, 1986
Type: Movie
A comedy about the everydaylife of the 30-year-old something nurse Henriette and her life. Her boyfriend is boring and she has an affair with a violent doctor. She shares an apartment with a gay man and she is close with her brother who is a somewhat insecure and love-seeking guy. However, after some unfortunate clashes with the world, Henriette realizes she is able to stand on her own.
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Isfugle
Title: Isfugle
Character: John
Released: December 26, 1983
Type: Movie
John and René are in their twenties, close friends but different enough for René to be nicknamed Thunderbird, while John remains just plain John. John feels irresistibly drawn into Thunderbird's orbit, but René isn't all flash. He actually longs to share John's plainness and quiet calm.
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Lost Generation
Title: Lost Generation
Character: Jørgen
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.