Iben Hjejle

Iben Hjejle

Born: March 22, 1971
in København, Danmark
Iben Hjejle (born March 22, 1971) is a Danish actress, notable for starring in the John Cusack film High Fidelity (2000). In Denmark, she is best known for appearing in the Danish television sitcom Langt fra Las Vegas (Far from Las Vegas), and playing the girlfriend of Danish comedian Casper Christensen, her former real life boyfriend. She also plays Christensen's girlfriend in the sitcom Klovn (Clown).

Hjejle was born in Copenhagen. She has starred in a series of Danish movies, including a Dogme movie, and also in Danish-produced action movies such as Gamle mænd i nye biler (Old Men in New Cars). She also played the Swedish Queen Sofia Magdalena in SVT's successful period drama production of Gustav III:s äktenskap (The Marriage of Gustav III) in 2001.

Hjejle also appeared in the 1997 film Portland, in Mifune's Last Song in 2000, The Emperor's New Clothes in 2002, and in Dreaming of Julia and Flickering Lights in 2003. Iben Hjejle was a part of the Danish popular television series Anna Pihl until its ending in April 2008, after 3 seasons. She had a part in Lars von Trier's Direktøren for det hele (2006, also known as The Boss of It All).

She turned down the role of Eowyn in Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings film trilogy because she didn't like the idea of being so far from home.

Movies for Iben Hjejle...

Maret
Title: Maret
Character: Dr. Moore
Released: March 3, 2023
Type: Movie
After losing part of her memory, Maret, 44, sets out to find out who she used to be. She learns about the many different life paths she followed, in none of which anything was ever really achieved. A profoundly unhappy person in a never-ending, headlong rush. A doctor on the island of Lanzarote offers to put this restlessness to an end through brain surgery. A promise of peace and satisfaction. Will Maret proceed with the surgery that would take away part of her being - or not?
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Title: All Exclusive
Character: Self
Released: December 7, 2022
Type: TV
In a new documentary interview experiment, the focus is on the meeting between Casper Christensen and his hand-picked guests - where the viewers get a completely new insight into the lives and personalities of both Casper and the guests.
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Mugge & hans mærkelige hjerne
Title: Mugge & hans mærkelige hjerne
Character: Kirsten (voice)
Released: October 13, 2022
Type: Movie
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Title: Dansk films bedste
Character: Self
Released: March 2, 2022
Type: TV
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Title: 12 uger i helvede
Released: September 2, 2021
Type: TV
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A Beautiful Curse
Title: A Beautiful Curse
Character: Angel 2
Released: March 20, 2021
Type: Movie
On an island struck with a sleeping phenomenon, a rogue visitor falls for one of the inhabitants, not realising the personal danger it brings.
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Title: Hjernemassage med Jan Hellesøe
Character: Self
Released: March 16, 2021
Type: TV
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Title: Deja-vu med Frøkjær
Released: February 1, 2021
Type: TV
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The Idiots Who Started The Party
Title: The Idiots Who Started The Party
Character: Herself
Released: October 13, 2020
Type: Movie
Danish film has never felt stronger on the international stage than it did with the Dogme films, which at the world premiere of 'The Party' and 'The Idiots' during the Cannes Film Festival in 1998 put Denmark on the film world map. Another eight films under the strict Dogme rules followed and created great international careers for several of the talents in front of and behind the handheld camera. Thomas Vinterberg, Søren Kragh-Jacobsen, Paprika Steen, Ulrich Thomsen, Trine Dyrholm, Iben Hjejle, Anders W. Berthelsen, Lone Scherfig, Sonja Richter and many more of the country's greatest filmmakers look back on when Denmark became Dogme.
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Title: Troldspejlet & Co.
Released: November 30, 2019
Type: TV
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Monty and the Street Party
Title: Monty and the Street Party
Character: Kirsten (voice)
Released: September 19, 2019
Type: Movie
'The Street Party' is an animated comedy for the whole family. The story is about the 10 year old kid, Mugge, who's parents are about to get a divorce. To recreate the balance and harmony that the adults are about to smash, the always optimistic and indomitable Mugge decides to put together the best street party ever - and in that way bring his mom and dad together again.
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Title: The Rain
Character: Ellen Andersen
Released: May 4, 2018
Type: TV
After a brutal virus wipes out most of the population, two young siblings embark on a perilous search for safety. A Scandinavian thriller series.
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Title: Med på noderne
Character: Sig selv
Released: October 1, 2017
Type: TV
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Klown Forever
Title: Klown Forever
Character: Iben
Released: September 24, 2015
Type: Movie
Frank and Casper's friendship is put to a test, when Casper decides to leave Denmark to pursue a solo career in Los Angeles. Determined to win his best friend back Frank chooses to follow Casper insuring an eventful trip.
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Growing Pains
Title: Growing Pains
Character: Birte
Released: September 6, 2014
Type: Movie
Fabian is a shy, introverted teenager who lives with his bossy and prudish mother. Fabians world gets turned upside down when he meets the fun and cool Felicia and they fall in love. But there is one small problem. Whenever Fabian gets horny, he turns into a werewolf. A twisted coming of age short film about a young man who has to discover and accept who he really is.
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Freak Out!
Title: Freak Out!
Character: Ida Hoffman (voice)
Released: January 25, 2014
Type: Movie
Long-haired, barefoot people. Free love! Veganism! Experiments with drugs... The sixties, right? Not quite. In 1900 a group of middle class kids revolted against their time and started the original alternative community - Monte Verità, the mountain of truth. A community based on veganism, feminism, pacifism and free love. This creative documentary mixes interviews, archive and animation in a beautiful combination bringing you straight back to the early 1900 as seen through the eyes of these young radicals. The documentary Freak Out tells the untold story of the birth of the alternative movement and unfold the uncanny similarities between our time and what they revolted against in the early 1900s.
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Every Child is Made of Fire
Title: Every Child is Made of Fire
Released: June 10, 2013
Type: Movie
Every Child is Made of Fire tells the story about Anne, a woman in her late thirties who leaves her job as an engineer to start working at a home for disadvantaged youth. Here she meets Mikael who has killed his father with a knife. It is a meeting between a person who wants to provide care, and a person who is obviously in need of so - a meeting that gets unexpected and dramatic consequences.
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Eskil & Trinidad
Title: Eskil & Trinidad
Character: Mette
Released: February 1, 2013
Type: Movie
Eskil moves from town to town with his father in Northern Sweden. He misses his mother and sucks at playing hockey, the main activity among the boys his age. Things changes when he meets Trinidad, a mysterious woman who lives outside society spending her time building a great ship that perhaps could take Eskil to his mother...
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Title: Dicte
Character: Dicte Svendsen
Released: January 7, 2013
Type: TV
Newly divorced journalist returns to her hometown to restart her life and work through her past.
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Fuck Up
Title: Fuck Up
Character: Malin
Released: March 16, 2012
Type: Movie
Jack is pleased with himself for the first time in years. He has decided to stop fucking anything with a pulse and also to cut back on his eager and enthusiastic drug use. Then his best friend crashes into a moose in the middle of the night on the Swedish border. He is found with a hoof buried in his forehead and 2.5 kilos of cocaine in the trunk. Over the next 24 hours, Jack loses his house, his girlfriend leaves him and takes their daughter with her. And as he is about to find out: when you think you have hit rock bottom, it can always get worse.
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Stockholm East
Title: Stockholm East
Character: Anna
Released: October 21, 2011
Type: Movie
Stockholm East is the love story between two strangers, bound together by a tragedy that has taken its toll on both their lives and relationships. When Johan and Anna meet at the railway station connecting Stockholm with the idyllic suburbs where they both live, they embark on a dangerous journey of passion and lies.
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Rosa Morena
Title: Rosa Morena
Character: Christine
Released: May 12, 2011
Type: Movie
Thomas, a Danish gay man, is unable to adopt in his home country. He visits a friend in Brazil to explore the possibility of bringing home a child. Eventually he meets Maria, a poor woman who is willing to give away the child she is carrying in exchange for money. As he waits for the child, Thomas takes care of Maria, and their relationship develops in a way he did not expect
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Klown
Title: Klown
Character: Iben
Released: December 16, 2010
Type: Movie
Frank is left with the responsibility for his nephew Bo on an already planned canoe trip. Frank's mate Casper is also coming along. Weighed down a with their obligation, Frank and Casper nevertheless look forward to ending the trip at Skanderborg Festival where there's plenty there for the guys, a spree of drinking and women. Not the best example to set for young Bo. And how do their partners see it all?
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The Eclipse
Title: The Eclipse
Character: Lena Morelle
Released: April 24, 2009
Type: Movie
Michael is a widower who is struggling to adjust to his new role as the sole caretaker of his two children. Still reeling from the death of his wife, he has been plagued by terrifying apparitions. When he volunteers at a local literary festival, he finds himself drawn to Lena, an empathetic author of supernatural fiction. While Lena tries to help Michael with the mystery of his nightmarish visions, she must contend with problems of her own, as she’s being jealously pursued by self-obsessed novelist Nicholas, her one-time lover. As the festival progresses, the three adults’ lives converge and collide.
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Chéri
Title: Chéri
Character: Marie Laure
Released: April 8, 2009
Type: Movie
The son of a courtesan retreats into a fantasy world after being forced to end his relationship with the older woman who educated him in the ways of love.
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Title: Skavlan
Character: Self - Guest
Released: January 16, 2009
Type: TV
Skavlan is a Norwegian-Swedish television talk show hosted by Norwegian journalist Fredrik Skavlan. It premiered in Sweden on Sveriges Television in January 2009, and the first guests to appear on the show were former Prime Minister of Sweden Göran Persson and his wife Anitra Steen. On 8 May 2009, it was announced that Skavlan had been renewed for a second season. It was also announced that the show would no longer only be produced by SVT in Sweden; Skavlan would now be partly produced in Norway by the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation. The first twelve episodes of Skavlan's second season were produced by SVT in Sweden, and the remaining twelve by NRK in Norway. Skavlan speaks Norwegian and his dialog is therefore subtitled in Swedish in Sweden, even though the two languages are quite similar and mutually intelligible. If the persons being interviewed by Skavlan are Swedish, he often tells them to let him know if they do not understand what he is saying. Swedish novelist Jan Guillou has criticized SVT for subtitling the program, stating "there is no need for that. If the host had been Danish, subtitling would have been necessary, but with a Norwegian host it does not make any sense."
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The Escape
Title: The Escape
Character: Rikke Lyngvig
Released: January 9, 2009
Type: Movie
Danish journalist Rikke Lyngvig is taken hostage in Afghanistan by a terror group. With help from one of the terrorists, the young Nazir, Rikke manages to escape. On her return, she is soon declared the Danish Jessica Lynch and her career is launched into the spotlight. All the while Nazir flees from Afghanistan, heading for Denmark. When he finally seeks out Rikke, she is shocked and torn. Is she willing to help the man who threatened to kill her, and to jeopardize her new-found career? Their tumultuous encounter turns into an ill-fated confrontation with their own demons and a nation driven by a hunger for sensation and political populism.
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Defiance
Title: Defiance
Character: Bella
Released: December 31, 2008
Type: Movie
Based on a true story, during World War II, four Jewish brothers escape their Nazi-occupied homeland of West Belarus in Poland and join the Soviet partisans to combat the Nazis. The brothers begin the rescue of roughly 1,200 Jews still trapped in the ghettos of Poland.
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Boy Meets Girl
Title: Boy Meets Girl
Character: Kathrine Poulsen
Released: October 17, 2008
Type: Movie
A writer pitches a film to a producer.
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Journey to Saturn
Title: Journey to Saturn
Character: Susanne Mortensen
Released: September 26, 2008
Type: Movie
A Danish crew of misfits travel to Saturn in search for natural resources. However, the planet is colonized by a ruthless army of Aliens that turn their eye on Earth and invade Denmark. Thus, the crew change their mission to liberate Denmark.
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The Boss of It All
Title: The Boss of It All
Character: Lise
Released: December 8, 2006
Type: Movie
An IT company hires an actor to serve as the company's president in order to help the business get sold to a cranky Icelander.
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Han, hun og Strindberg
Title: Han, hun og Strindberg
Character: Liza
Released: March 3, 2006
Type: Movie
Peter, a theatre director, hates being out of work so much it's affecting his relationship with his girlfriend Marie, an actress. As a remedy, she suggests they stage a play by Strindberg together and bring in her famous friend Liza. Not such a good idea, it turns out. Soon, Liza is applying all her skills to steal the leading role and the director away from Maria, who is not backing down without a fight.
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Title: Anna Pihl
Character: Mikala Hansen
Released: February 13, 2006
Type: TV
A policewoman is doing her best at the job, but struggles to be there for her son.
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Title: Klovn
Character: Iben
Released: February 7, 2005
Type: TV
Klovn is a Danish sitcom, which first aired on the Danish TV channel TV2 Zulu. It focuses on the life of the main character Frank and Casper. The show builds its comedy around quiet everyday situations, social awkwardness, uncomfortable silences and general faux pas. Klovn usually gets compared to the American sitcom Curb Your Enthusiasm by Larry David. It’s also shot handheld, in a pseudo-realistic style. Some have also mistakenly compared the theme to Curb Your Enthusiasm’s, despite it being a direct reference to Jacques Tati’s Mr. Hulot movies. The poster for the first film can be seen in Casper and Frank’s offices throughout the series. Klovn initially ran 6 seasons on TV2 Zulu from 2005-2009 and was renewed with an additional 3 seasons that aired from 2018-2022.
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Title: Wallander
Character: Kim Kristensen
Released: January 14, 2005
Type: TV
Wallander is a Swedish television series adapted from Henning Mankell's Kurt Wallander novels and starring Krister Henriksson in the title role. The 1st series of 13 films was produced in 2005 and 2006, with one taken directly from a novel and the remainder with new storylines suggested by Mankell. The 2nd series of 13 films was shown between 2009 and 2010. The stories are set in Ystad near the southern tip of Sweden. The three films Before the Frost, Mastermind, and The Secret were premiered in cinemas, with the rest first released as direct-to-DVD movies. The first episode of the second series, Hämnden, was released in Swedish cinemas in January 2009; the rest of the series was made for television. The BBC aired all 26 episodes of the Swedish television versions on BBC Four. A third and final season, containing six 90 minute episodes, will air in 2013 with Charlotta Jonsson as Linda Wallander. The first episode, adapted from the novel The Troubled Man, was released in cinemas in January 2013.
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The Collector
Title: The Collector
Character: Laura
Released: October 22, 2004
Type: Movie
A romantic comedy set in the world of gambling, debt collecting and professional boxing. Laura is an unlucky gambler with a huge debt, she crosses paths with Claus, a former boxer who now makes a living as a debt collector. Laura is cheating, scamming, and lying and eventually life catches up with her. Claus is trying to regain his self respect and start anew. Together, they make an awkward but very charming couple on the verge of love. It is a story about trust, friendship, new beginnings, getting a second chance and doing the right thing.
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Monster Thursday
Title: Monster Thursday
Character: Sara
Released: October 15, 2004
Type: Movie
A quirky romantic drama set in remote coastal Norway takes the viewer on a tumultuous ride through surfing aspirations, extreme weather and love.
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The Good Cop
Title: The Good Cop
Character: Louise
Released: April 16, 2004
Type: Movie
A crew of young, small-time crooks screws up. Ripping off a shipping container of Chinese silk for a Rasta gang, they also come away with two and a half kilos of heroin belonging to the Latvian mafia. A friend of theirs, Jens (Kim Bodnia), a plainclothes cop, tries to mediate, but instead all barrels are turned on him. The Latvians and the Chinese want him. Jamaican dope growers, ice-cold Serbian heroin dealers and Polish human smugglers are gunning for him. And to top it all off, he also has to dodge his fellow officers, backed by the scuba corps and elite-forces soldiers, to save his young friends.
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Dreaming of Julia
Title: Dreaming of Julia
Character: Julia
Released: October 24, 2003
Type: Movie
The year is 1958, and in Holguín, Cuba, a boy's world is about to change forever.
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The Bouncer
Title: The Bouncer
Character: Lizzie
Released: August 15, 2003
Type: Movie
Based on a true story the film tells the story of Svend who fights to save his elderly parents' marriage even though it has made his life almost unbearable. When he meets Lizzie he discovers how big a part of his family's hatred and jealousy he himself is. The only thing left is the ultimate break off, or the ultimate forgiveness.
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Sweet Dreams
Title: Sweet Dreams
Character: Marie
Released: March 14, 2003
Type: Movie
Skagerrak is the story of being hit by happiness when you least expect it. In their late twenties and tired of partying their way around the world, Danish Marie and Irish Sophie come ashore in Northern Scotland. After another drunken night they are soon parted from all their accumulated cash. Out of money and out of luck ambitious Sophie pressures Marie into accepting a lucrative job as surrogate mother. Months on, Marie finds herself alone, life having taken a dramatic turn. Heavily pregnant, and wanting to terminate her pregnancy, she's on the run from the future parents, searching for Sophie's old flame, Ken. In a case of mistaken identity, Marie ends up in hiding with three strange men in a seedy Glasgow garage. But then happiness strikes again.
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Annas dag
Title: Annas dag
Character: Anna
Released: January 28, 2003
Type: Movie
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Old Men in New Cars: In China They Eat Dogs II
Title: Old Men in New Cars: In China They Eat Dogs II
Character: Mille
Released: July 12, 2002
Type: Movie
The last wish of the dying "Monk" is for his foster child, Harald, to find his real son, Ludvig. But the latter is currently in a Swedish prison cell...
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Gustav III:s Äktenskap
Title: Gustav III:s Äktenskap
Character: Queen Sofia Magdalena
Released: December 25, 2001
Type: Movie
At 30 years old King Gustav III has a number of great projects behind him already, but his most demanding in front of him - to consummate his marriage and put an heir on the throne. With both determination and anxiety the king begins his amorous battle to secure succession.
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Title: Banjos Likørstue
Character: Iben Hjejle
Released: September 6, 2001
Type: TV
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The Emperor's New Clothes
Title: The Emperor's New Clothes
Character: Nicole 'Pumpkin' Truchaut
Released: August 11, 2001
Type: Movie
Napoleon, exiled, devises a plan to retake the throne. He'll swap places with commoner Eugene Lenormand, sneak into Paris, then Lenormand will reveal himself and Napoleon will regain his throne. Things don't go at all well; first, the journey proves more difficult than expected, but more disastrously, Lenormand enjoys himself too much to reveal the deception. Napoleon adjusts somewhat uneasily to the life of a commoner while waiting, while Lenormand gorges on rich food.
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Title: Far from Las Vegas
Character: Liva Eberhart
Released: February 27, 2001
Type: TV
Langt fra Las Vegas is a Danish sit-com, which was first aired on the Danish TV channel TV2 Zulu. It revolved around life at a newly started TV morning show, Jump Start, and focused on the life of the main character, Casper. Langt fra Las Vegas consisted of 53 episodes, aired over 5 seasons with each episode lasting 25 minutes. It ran from 2001-2003.
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Flickering Lights
Title: Flickering Lights
Character: Therese
Released: November 3, 2000
Type: Movie
Four small gangsters from Copenhagen trick a gangster boss: they take over 4,000,000 kroner which they were supposed to bring him. Trying to escape to Barcelona they are forced to stop in the countryside, in an old, wrecked house, hiding there for several weeks. Slowly, one after another, they realize, that they would like to stay there, start a new life.
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High Fidelity
Title: High Fidelity
Character: Laura
Released: March 17, 2000
Type: Movie
When record store owner and compulsive list-compiler Rob Gordon gets dumped by his long-time girlfriend, Laura, because he hasn't changed since they met, he revisits his top five breakups of all time in order to figure out what went wrong. As he examines his failed attempts at romance and happiness, the process finds him being dragged, kicking and screaming, into adulthood.
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Possessed
Title: Possessed
Character: Berit
Released: June 25, 1999
Type: Movie
A stranger arrives in Copenhagen from a plane from Romania. Shortly after the power is lost in the whole city.
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Mifune
Title: Mifune
Character: Liva
Released: March 12, 1999
Type: Movie
Kresten, newly wed, is on the threshold of a great career success in his father-in-law´s company. But when the death of his own father takes him back to his poverty-stricken childhood home, far out in the country, his career plans fall apart. For one thing he has to deal with his loveable, backward brother, who is now all alone; for another, he meets a stunning woman who comes to the farm as a housekeeper, in disguise of her real profession as a call-girl.
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Title: Den hemmelige tunnel
Character: Ida
Released: December 1, 1997
Type: TV
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Sinan's Wedding
Title: Sinan's Wedding
Character: Lulu
Released: May 6, 1997
Type: Movie
Sinan is a second generation Turkish immigrant. He is young, restless and he likes the ladies. His parents have found him a bride, the beautiful Gül. They have also planned for him to take over his father's restaurant after the wedding. But Sinan has other fish to fry.
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Mors dag
Title: Mors dag
Character: Karen
Released: September 18, 1996
Type: Movie
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Portland
Title: Portland
Character: Eva
Released: April 19, 1996
Type: Movie
The basic story of a young criminal not quite living up to his won ideals of "not to give a damn" sidesteps out of his criminal career while dragging his younger brother into it, could have been interesting. Unfortunately the implementation is simply not good enough. As so often with Danish movies, there is little appreciation for detail thus leaving us with hoodlums talking like they've done time at a business academy rather than a prison. Dialects completely out of here and idiosyncratic bikers without bikes or even character for that matter. An ever accelerating surrealism towards the end doesn't help to clear the slow pace of this film but it does give a glimpse of what the story could have unfolded to become.