Paprika Steen

Paprika Steen

Born: November 3, 1964
in Frederiksberg, Denmark
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Paprika Steen (born 3 November 1964) is a Danish actress and film director best known for her performances in the films Festen, The Idiots and Open Hearts. Steen was the first Danish actress since Karin Nellemose in 1949 to win both Best Actress (for Okay) and Best Supporting Actress (Open Hearts) in the same year at the Robert Festival, the Danish equivalent of the Oscars.

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Nightwatch: Demons Are Forever
Title: Nightwatch: Demons Are Forever
Character: Kramer
Released: December 14, 2023
Type: Movie
Martin's daughter, Emma, meets with Wörmer in his isolation cell, and this pulls the convicted commissioner out of his coma and sets in motion a chain of fateful events.
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Tove’s Room
Title: Tove’s Room
Character: Tove Ditlevsen
Released: June 22, 2023
Type: Movie
In a flat in Copenhagen, we meet one of the biggest female writers, Tove Ditlevsen, and her husband, the sadistic news editor in chief Victor Andreasen. Toves talent is indisputable, only her husband’s destructive envy surpasses it. Tove looks straight through her husband’s inferiority complex, and yet she puts up with his humiliating behaviour and his violence. He is the one who controls her drug abuse and repeated admissions to the psychiatric ward – the only place in which she truly finds peace to write. Their power struggle needs an audience, and on this very day they’re expecting a lunch guest, the promising young author Klaus Rifbjerg, who celebrates the modern woman. Klaus believes they’ll be talking about literature, what he doesn’t know is that a blood bath awaits him.
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Title: Families Like Ours
Released: January 1, 2023
Type: TV
Danish high-school student Laura who must choose between her divorced parents as the country is evacuated following an apocalyptic flood.
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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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Title: Dansk films bedste
Character: Self
Released: March 2, 2022
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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Domino
Title: Domino
Character: Hanne Hansen
Released: May 31, 2019
Type: Movie
Seeking justice for his partner’s murder by an ISIS member, a Copenhagen police officer finds himself caught in a cat and mouse game with a duplicitous CIA agent who is using the killer as a pawn to trap other ISIS members.
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That Time of Year
Title: That Time of Year
Character: Katrine
Released: November 8, 2018
Type: Movie
From Danish director and actor Paprika Steen comes a caustic comedy about the deep-rooted grievances that can rip families apart -- and the ties that bind them together.
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Title: The City and the City
Character: Professor Mona Ul-Nadi
Released: April 6, 2018
Type: TV
When the body of a foreign student is discovered in the streets of the down-at-heel city of Besźel, it’s just another day’s work for Inspector Tyador Borlú of the Extreme Crime Squad. But he uncovers evidence that the murdered girl came from Ul Qoma, a city that shares a dangerous and volatile relationship with Besźel, and this case will challenge everything Borlú holds dear.
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Title: Below the Surface
Character: Naja Toft
Released: April 2, 2017
Type: TV
An early morning in October, 15 people are taken hostage from a subway train. This puts a huge hostage crisis in motion, and it changes Denmark forever.
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Undercover
Title: Undercover
Character: Hanne
Released: November 24, 2016
Type: Movie
In the comedy ' undercover ' is to be Denmark's worst police officer Muhammed on his first undercover mission. The only problem is that it is small and Rikke love the Thursday before Christmas. But instead of Christmas tree and gifts to Rikke transport Crown witness Mick to Funen persecuted to a notorious gangster boss, which will have a hold of Mick and the 900,000 crowns, he is over with. Linda p. gives the gas as a Danish response to Melissa McCarthy in the grove Christmas comedy, which is written by Casper Christensen and directed by former East Coast Hustler, Nikolaj Peyk.
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Antboy 3
Title: Antboy 3
Character: Alicia Dufort
Released: February 11, 2016
Type: Movie
Antboy is challenged by the release of archenemy Loppen from prison, the new super villain, Alicia Dufort, and competition from an all new vigilante; the Hero Without a Name.
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Title: Modus
Character: Alva Roos
Released: September 23, 2015
Type: TV
During a snowy Christmas season in Sweden, psychologist and profiler Inger Johanne Vik finds not only herself but also her autistic daughter drawn into the investigation of a number of disturbing deaths, through which she meets detective Ingvar Nyman of “Rikskrim,” a Swedish national police force.
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Silent Heart
Title: Silent Heart
Character: Heidi
Released: November 13, 2014
Type: Movie
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.
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Kolbøttefabrikken
Title: Kolbøttefabrikken
Character: Acacia
Released: May 29, 2014
Type: Movie
When Acacia, an alternative treatment therapist, is sentenced to a mental examination on a psychiatric ward, she's looking forward to the opportunity to help a lot of new people. She's convinced that she can give her fellow patients more quality of life with clairvoyance, hypnosis and coffee readings than strong medication can. Her new methods quickly spread joy on the ward, but the medication-happy Dr. Bergstroem refuses to surrender to Acacia's strange, new-age methods. According to him she is very ill and the only solution is heavy medication.
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Weekendfar
Title: Weekendfar
Character: Helle
Released: September 8, 2013
Type: Movie
Against his will the boy Sune is going camping in the Swedish woods with his father. What was meant to be a trip for bonding, ends up tearing father and son further apart until they meet a wanted robber and has to work together to get out of the forrest alive.
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Love Is All You Need
Title: Love Is All You Need
Character: Benedikte
Released: September 4, 2012
Type: Movie
Ida, a Danish hairdresser who has lost her hair to cancer, returns home from the hospital one day to find her husband is cheating on her. She decides to travel to Italy on her own for her daughter's wedding, but discovers on arriving that the wedding gathering will present its own challenges.
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Keep the Lights On
Title: Keep the Lights On
Character: Karen
Released: February 25, 2012
Type: Movie
Documentary filmmaker Erik and closeted lawyer Paul meet through a casual encounter, but they find a deeper connection and become a couple. Individually and together, they are risk takers — compulsive, and fueled by drugs and sex. In an almost decade-long relationship defined by highs, lows, and dysfunctional patterns, Erik struggles to negotiate his own boundaries and dignity and to be true to himself.
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Superclasico
Title: Superclasico
Character: Anna
Released: March 17, 2011
Type: Movie
Christian is a Copenhagen wine seller on the brink of bankruptcy. Equally unsuccessful in just about every other aspect of life, it has been 17months since his wife Anna left him. Anna works as a soccer agent in Buenos Aires and now lives a life of luxury with Argentina's top player Juan Diaz. Then one day Christian and their 16-year-old son Oscar get on a plane to Buenos Aires. Christian arrives under the pretense of wanting to sign the divorce papers, but in truth, he wants to try to win Anna back.
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Title: Lykke
Character: Lene Leth
Released: January 2, 2011
Type: TV
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Skeletons
Title: Skeletons
Character: Jane
Released: July 16, 2010
Type: Movie
In writer-director Nick Whitfield's black indie comedy, a pair of "exorcists" (Ed Gaughan and Andrew Buckley) with the power to rid people of their secrets agree to help a woman (Paprika Steen) whose daughter (Tuppence Middleton) is mute -- and whose husband is missing. Jason Isaacs co-stars as the mysterious Colonel, who seems to be calling the shots from the sidelines of the duo's shadowy enterprise.
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Everything Will Be Fine
Title: Everything Will Be Fine
Character: Siri
Released: January 28, 2010
Type: Movie
A writer-director known for becoming obsessed with his own stories, Jacob Falk stumbles upon photographs of prisoners of war being tortured by Danish soldiers. Suspecting a political conspiracy, Falk falls into a frenetic chase to reveal the mystery behind the photos, which leads him to discover a truth more disturbing than he imagined.
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Applause
Title: Applause
Character: Thea Barfoed
Released: September 24, 2009
Type: Movie
When the critically acclaimed, tough and coming of age actress Thea Barfoed ends her rehab, she confronts a hard choice. During her heavy drinking period she divorced and lost custody of her two boys. Now she wants them to be a part of her life again.
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Fear Me Not
Title: Fear Me Not
Character: Sigrid
Released: December 19, 2008
Type: Movie
Michael needs a change in his life, so when he hears about clinical trials for a new anti-depressant, he signs up to be a guinea pig - without telling his family. Because of dangerous side effects, the trial is subsequently abandoned but Michael continues to take the pills. Having lost all control, Michael's repressed instincts resurface with a force and violence that no-one could have predicted.
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Title: Mikkel og guldkortet
Character: Birgitte
Released: December 1, 2008
Type: TV
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Title: Zulu Awards
Character: Host
Released: February 27, 2008
Type: TV
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The Early Years: Erik Nietzsche Part 1
Title: The Early Years: Erik Nietzsche Part 1
Character: Ursula Østdal
Released: December 25, 2007
Type: Movie
Erik Nietzsche is an intelligent but in many ways inexperienced shy young man who is convinced that he wants to be a film director. In the late 1970s, Erik is accepted by the Danish National Film School where he enters a world of angry and unhelpful tutors, weird fellow students and unwritten rules. In this both exhilarating and angst-provoking period for him, Erik feels increasingly like a foreigner in the film industry. Frequently, he is merely an observer of the absurdities that surround him. He encounters trade union disputes, falls in love and experiences self-assured empowered women who refuse to make a commitment. The film is a drama full of comedy - a sharp portrait of a conceited but entertaining world of film which we suspect our dogged young director will eventually conquer with his vision.
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Title: Der Kommissar und das Meer
Character: Line Anders
Released: December 21, 2007
Type: TV
Der Kommissar und das Meer is a German television series.
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The Substitute
Title: The Substitute
Character: Ulla Harms, Vikaren
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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Snart kommer tiden
Title: Snart kommer tiden
Character: Rebecca
Released: March 30, 2006
Type: Movie
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Forty Shades of Blue
Title: Forty Shades of Blue
Character: Lonni
Released: December 7, 2005
Type: Movie
A Russian woman living in Memphis with a much older rock-n-roll legend experiences a personal awakening when her husband's estranged son comes to visit.
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The Celebration in Retrospect
Title: The Celebration in Retrospect
Character: self
Released: November 18, 2005
Type: Movie
This 2005 documentary features interviews with the cast and crew of The Celebration, including director Thomas Vinterberg and co-screenwriter Mogens Rukov.
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Run
Title: Run
Released: October 1, 2005
Type: Movie
A young woman who works in a newspaper kiosk runs every day. Until now.
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Adam's Apples
Title: Adam's Apples
Character: Sarah
Released: April 15, 2005
Type: Movie
A neo-nazi sentenced to community service at a church clashes with the blindly devotional priest.
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Title: The Befallen
Character: Charlotte
Released: September 28, 2003
Type: TV
One night a nameless force sweeps over Sweden, and scattered over the country are a few chosen, who are gifted with supernatural powers. These powers are the exact opposite to what the biggest issue in their lives are - the woman unable to give birth to a child gains the ability to heal dead people. A White Leader and a Black Leader seek out these people, to prepare for the final battle between good and evil.
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Title: Defense
Character: Pernille Karmark
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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Stealing Rembrandt
Title: Stealing Rembrandt
Character: Charlotte
Released: May 17, 2003
Type: Movie
Two bumbling scrap metal thieves - father and son - steal the wrong painting during a museum heist. The painting turns out to be the only original Rembrandt painting in Denmark, and all hell breaks loose. What do you do when you've got Interpol, the Danish police and the entire Danish underworld on your heels? And who was this Rembrandt guy anyway?
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The Boy Who Wanted to Be a Bear
Title: The Boy Who Wanted to Be a Bear
Character: Female Bear (voice)
Released: December 18, 2002
Type: Movie
When a boy child is stolen by bears who raise him as their own, his human parents hunt the bears in despair, and the boy is faced with the dilemma of who and what he is.
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Open Hearts
Title: Open Hearts
Character: Marie
Released: September 6, 2002
Type: Movie
Cecilie and Joachim are about to get married when a freak car accident leaves Joachim disabled, throwing their lives into a spin. The driver of the other car, Marie, and her family don’t get off lightly, either. Her husband Niels works in the hospital where he meets Cecilie and falls madly in love with her.
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Okay
Title: Okay
Character: Nete
Released: March 27, 2002
Type: Movie
Nete is a tough woman of 37 who runs her job, husband, and teenage daughter with a firm and efficient hand. Her father suddenly becomes ill. Seriously ill. Nete forces a doctor to tell her how much time he has left. 3 weeks, hardly any longer. Nete's father becomes bitter and introvert, but Nete insists that he come to live with her and her family the few weeks he has left. "You should die with your family." Nete's father moves in and puts even more strain on Nete's family and everyday life. They all try to cope with the situation - he has only three weeks left, and you don't argue with a dying man. Three weeks pass by. A month. Nete's father does not die, his appetite comes back, the doctors begin to have doubts as to the prognosis, and Nete has a problem.
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Prop and Berta
Title: Prop and Berta
Character: Berta (voice)
Released: January 26, 2001
Type: Movie
Prop & Berta is the story of a friendship between a little stout man and a big and proud cow, who are able to talk to each other. Together they confront an ugly and evil witch who is determined to get rid of them because they have moved into a house on the edge of her wood. The witch hates neighbours and through magic and evil planning she turns Prop and Berta's friends, the Teeny burpers, into dangerous hoodlums who begin to terrorize the nearby town. Prop and Berta manage to overcome the witch and turn her into a good person, restoring peace in the little town and breaking the spell which binds their friends.
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The Name of This Film Is Dogme95
Title: The Name of This Film Is Dogme95
Character: Self
Released: November 1, 2000
Type: Movie
The Name of this Film is Dogme95 is an irreverent documentary exploring the origins of Dogme95, the most influential movement in world cinema for a generation. The film tells how a 'brotherhood' of four Danish directors armed with a radical Manifesto, has inspired, outraged and provoked filmmakers and filmgoers the world over. The rules of Dogme95 take filmmaking back to its brass-tacks - stories must be set in the here and now; the films must be shot on location, with a handheld camera, using natural light, and direct sound; the rules forbid murders and weapons (staples of the much-loved action-movie genre); and, most amusingly, the director must not be credited (that holds also for the director of The Name of this Film is Dogme95...).
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Help! I'm a Fish
Title: Help! I'm a Fish
Character: Mother (voice)
Released: October 6, 2000
Type: Movie
Three children are accidentally transformed into fish after consuming a potion made by an eccentric scientist. The kids end up in the sea, with one problem: they must find and drink the antidote within 48 hours, or forever remain as fish.
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Dancer in the Dark
Title: Dancer in the Dark
Character: Woman on Night Shift
Released: September 1, 2000
Type: Movie
Selma, a Czech immigrant on the verge of blindness, struggles to make ends meet for herself and her son, who has inherited the same genetic disorder and will suffer the same fate without an expensive operation. When life gets too difficult, Selma learns to cope through her love of musicals, escaping life's troubles - even if just for a moment - by dreaming up little numbers to the rhythmic beats of her surroundings.
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Max
Title: Max
Character: Zeborah
Released: March 17, 2000
Type: Movie
Released after three years in prison, Max finds out her father, a wealthy businessman, has hired a stranger to play his son. Meanwhile, the ex-husband of the Rent-a-Family director plans to rob Max' father.
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Solen er så rød
Title: Solen er så rød
Character: Moren
Released: January 1, 2000
Type: Movie
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The One and Only
Title: The One and Only
Character: Stella
Released: April 1, 1999
Type: Movie
When kitchen fitter Niller comes to install Sus's new suite, their immediate attraction to one another proves a sweet escape from both of their problematic relationships.
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Mifune
Title: Mifune
Character: Pernille
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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The Little Knight
Title: The Little Knight
Character: (voice)
Released: February 12, 1999
Type: Movie
A long time ago in the world of Fairy tales, there was a little boy who lived in a country where quarrels, fights, rage and anger were forbidden, and knight were not needed any more. The little boy was sorry about this because he wanted to become a noble knight. He travels to three different countries where he gets books, cakes and a ride on a roundabout. But nobody can teach him how to fight. Suddenly, in the middle of the forrest, he faces a huge dragon. He wins the fight, and when he comes home, the king's personal physician has seized power, and nobody dares to protest. However, the little knight does, and he wins the fight agains the physician, marries the princess and lives happily ever after.
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The Humiliated
Title: The Humiliated
Character: Self / High Class Lady
Released: October 30, 1998
Type: Movie
A very intimate look on Lars von Trier and his cast and crew, during the production of "The Idiots".
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The Celebration
Title: The Celebration
Character: Helene
Released: June 19, 1998
Type: Movie
During a family gathering, a celebration for their father's 60th birthday, the eldest son presents a speech that reveals a shocking secret to everyone.
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The Idiots
Title: The Idiots
Character: High Class Lady
Released: April 28, 1998
Type: Movie
With his first Dogma-95 film director Lars von Trier opens up a completely new film platform. With a mix of home-video and documentary styles the film tells the story of a group of young people who have decided to get to know their “inner-idiots” and thus not only facing and breaking their outer appearance but also their inner.
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Hannibal and Jerry
Title: Hannibal and Jerry
Character: Mor
Released: February 7, 1997
Type: Movie
Hannibal is a nice and polite boy, but Father and Mother think he hangs too much in front of the television. They therefore give him the dog Jerry, whom he is very pleased with. It turns out that Jerry, as the dog is called, is not an ordinary dog, because it can not bark, but on the other hand it can speak. The crafty toy maker Uncle Grandfather and his henchman Uncle Harry would like to grab Jerry, and it involves various conflicts involving a cheeky dog trader, an unlucky glazier and a distinct police cops.
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Title: Lex & Klatten
Released: January 1, 1997
Type: TV
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The Biggest Heroes
Title: The Biggest Heroes
Character: Lisbeth
Released: November 8, 1996
Type: Movie
The two medicated low-lifes Carsten and Peter are long time partners, an old flame of Peter's turns up to tell him that he has a twelve year old daughter, whom he should present himself to. Her adoptive father is a mean bastard, and incestive undertones lies in the relationship between the two. The daughter escapes from her adoptive father, turns up at Peter's place, and Carsten, Peter, and the daughter escapes to Sweden.
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Den store kul-tur
Title: Den store kul-tur
Character: Elisabeth
Released: January 1, 1996
Type: Movie
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Just a Girl
Title: Just a Girl
Character: Seamstress
Released: December 15, 1995
Type: Movie
PUK SCHARBAU plays Lise Nørgaard in the epic film adaptation of her fascinating life story. In a chronicle of both love and war, masterfully directed by Peter Schroeder, we follow the woman who would later give us 'Matador', from her early childhood to her controversial career as a journalist with a Denmark of yesterday, and a Europe in flames as convincing backdrop.
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Title: Juletestamentet
Character: Mie
Released: December 1, 1995
Type: TV
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Title: Fæhår og Harzen
Character: Lajla
Released: August 28, 1995
Type: TV
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Title: The Shadow of Freedom
Character: Girl at the Bar
Released: October 30, 1994
Type: TV
A young man on the run after a stay in prison is chased through the Northern parts of Scandinavia for a murder he has not committed.
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Frække Frida og de frygtløse spioner
Title: Frække Frida og de frygtløse spioner
Character: Lonni
Released: March 18, 1994
Type: Movie
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Black Harvest
Title: Black Harvest
Character: Pige på Ravnsholt
Released: November 5, 1993
Type: Movie
Family drama set in the Danish countryside in the turn of the century. A wealthy landowner is an evil and corrupt womaniser with several illegitimate offspring in addition to his beautiful family. Nobody stands up to him except his feisty 17-year-old daughter.
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Last Round
Title: Last Round
Character: Sosters semme
Released: June 16, 1993
Type: Movie
The final days of a terminally ill young man.
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Rami og Julie
Title: Rami og Julie
Character: Linda
Released: March 4, 1988
Type: Movie
A Palestinian refugee living in Copenhagen is rescued from a gang of racist thugs by a young woman with whom he falls in love.
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Rita
Title: Rita
Character: Ellen
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
A headstrong, unconventional teacher and single mother takes on every kind of authority - as well as her family - in a messy and unfiltered way.
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The X-Gene Project
Title: The X-Gene Project
Character: Karen Hamilton
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
Due to the tragic loss of his wife Karen, who died of cancer while 6 months pregnant, Dr. Simon Hamilton has dedicated his life to finding a cure for cancer, with the help of his scientists partner Dr. Paul Wilson. After many years of research, they are on the brink of a medical miracle that could change the world forever, but they are being hunted by the Pentagon and the medical industry who want control of the technology at any cost.