Ghita Nørby

Ghita Nørby

Born: January 12, 1935
in Copenhagen, Denmark
Nørby was born in Copenhagen, Denmark, the daughter of opera singer Einar Nørby. She studied two years at the Danish Royal Theatre. She has received a number of awards and recognitions including the Ingenio et Arti medal in 2006. At the 27th Guldbagge Awards she was nominated for the award for Best Actress for her role in Freud's Leaving Home.

She has been married a number of times. First in 1956 to architect Mogens Garth-Grüner, and then to actor Henrik Wiehe. She met her next husband, Italian pop singer/actor Dario Campeotto, on the set of a film they were shooting in 1962. They were married in 1963, and had a son, actor Giacomo Campeotto, in 1964. They were divorced in 1969. She married a fourth time to actor Jørgen Reenberg in April 1970. She is currently married to pianist/composer, Svend Skipper.

Movies for Ghita Nørby...

Rosa and the Stone Troll
Title: Rosa and the Stone Troll
Character: Stone Troll
Released: February 9, 2023
Type: Movie
Rosa is a little flower fairy who always lived alone in her rose bush. More than anything she dreams of having a friend, but she is too scared to ever leave her bush and never found one. One day the cool and adventurous butterfly Silk crosses paths with Rosa and they immediately become friends despite their differences. Silk wants to go on adventures and Rosa just wants to stay in her safe bush. But when Silk is kidnapped by an evil Stone Troll, Rosa has to let go of her fears and set out on a dangerous journey to save her best friend.
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Ghitas hemmeligheder
Title: Ghitas hemmeligheder
Character: Sig selv
Released: December 29, 2022
Type: Movie
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Title: A Storm for Christmas
Character: Magnhild
Released: December 16, 2022
Type: TV
A group of people arrive at Oslo airport. Some to welcome their loved ones, some to fly home to their families, and some who want to fly away and escape Christmas. But in one way or another, their Christmas mission goes awry. They are all stranded at the airport and the clock is ticking… only 24 hours til Christmas - so what do they do?
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Creation of the Kingdom of Exodus
Title: Creation of the Kingdom of Exodus
Character: Self / Rigmor Mortensen
Released: November 20, 2022
Type: Movie
Get an exclusive behind-the-scenes look at the creative challenges Lars von Trier presents his cast and crew to bring his vision to life from script to shoot and to the screen at home.
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Toscana
Title: Toscana
Character: Inge
Released: May 18, 2022
Type: Movie
When a Danish chef travels to Tuscany to sell his father's business, he meets a local woman who inspires him to rethink his approach to life and love.
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Title: Dansk films bedste
Character: Self
Released: March 2, 2022
Type: TV
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Title: Vilde stemmer
Character: Speaker
Released: February 20, 2022
Type: TV
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Title: Deja-vu med Frøkjær
Released: February 1, 2021
Type: TV
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Resin
Title: Resin
Character: Else
Released: December 12, 2019
Type: Movie
The dangerous paranoia lurking beneath the seemingly idyllic existence of a family of hermits living on a remote island begins to come to the fore when their daughter starts to question her parents' worldview.
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Between a Rock and a Hard Place
Title: Between a Rock and a Hard Place
Character: Birthe Rasmussen
Released: August 26, 2019
Type: Movie
After a lifetime of caregiving, 81-year-old Birthe is separated from her daughter Karen, who has Downs Syndrome. Birthe is struggling with dementia and the municipality believes that she is no longer capable of taking care of Karen, who has the mental age of an 8-year-old. On the day of Karen’s departure, Birthe is in denial about her own abilities. Why shouldn’t she be able to take proper care of her daughter?
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Before the Frost
Title: Before the Frost
Character: Agnes
Released: January 10, 2019
Type: Movie
The film takes place somewhere in the Danish countryside in the middle of the 19th century. Here within a small Danish peasant family, harsh circumstances reign. With the prospect of yet another tough winter, the farmer Jens faces an unbearable choice. If the family is to survive the winter, he must settle an agreement with the rich farmer nearby and forsake his own moral as well as his most precious possession, in an effort to secure them all a better life.
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Title: Meyerheim & stjernerne
Character: Self
Released: February 19, 2018
Type: TV
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Title: Chili Klaus indtager norden
Character: Self
Released: September 19, 2016
Type: TV
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Key House Mirror
Title: Key House Mirror
Character: Lily
Released: October 22, 2015
Type: Movie
Lily (76) is sure there’s nothing wrong with her. The only reason she lives in a care home is because of her husband Max's illness: a series of strokes has reduced him to a vegetable. The fact that Lily isn’t exactly the way she used to be becomes slowly clear in the Danish drama Key House Mirror - the title refers to a memory test. It’s not easy for Lily to leave her old habits behind her and fit in with the rules of the home. Her life blossoms when she meets an 80-year-old Swedish neighbour, a charming man who gives her the attention she has long missed. Lily’s daughter, however, is not so happy with the budding romance.
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Historien om Olsen Banden
Title: Historien om Olsen Banden
Released: March 22, 2015
Type: Movie
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Jauja
Title: Jauja
Character: Woman in the cave
Released: November 27, 2014
Type: Movie
A father and daughter journey from Denmark to an unknown desert that exists in a realm beyond the confines of civilization.
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Silent Heart
Title: Silent Heart
Character: Esther
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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People in the Sun
Title: People in the Sun
Character: Fru Sørensen
Released: March 4, 2011
Type: Movie
Two couples decide to spend their Midsummer holiday together and make it an evening to remember — a traditional summer comedy, except for the fact that it's the end of the world.
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The Christmas Party
Title: The Christmas Party
Character: Gerda
Released: November 13, 2009
Type: Movie
When Anders Bo begins his new job as a car salesman, he is given the special task of infiltrating the small competing car shop, Holger's Auto during their annual Christmas party and steal their customer file. As Anders Bo romps through the commotion and antics of the celebration, he realizes that his assignment in fact relates to an old family feud and that the odd and funny characters working there might have more to offer than meets the eye - especially Amalie, the beautiful daughter of the owner, Holger. In the middle of Christmas pudding and Christmas cheer Anders Bo suddenly learns to listen to his heart.
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The Wild Swans
Title: The Wild Swans
Character: Fatamorgana / The Old Lady
Released: September 11, 2009
Type: Movie
Elise, a princess, lives happily together with her eleven brothers. When her father, the king, marries again, he banishes Elisa. Hereafter his new wife turns Elise's eleven brothers into swans. But fortunately Elise finds her brothers, who are swans during daylight and human beings at night time. In a dream, the fairy Fatamorgana tells the story of the unhappy princess and how she rescues her brothers, the eleven princes.
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Original
Title: Original
Character: Harriet
Released: August 1, 2009
Type: Movie
Henry has been acting the human chameleon all his life - a pale reflection of other people's expectations. One day Henry's best friend Jon talks him into opening a restaurant with him in Spain. Before leaving Henry is caught up in a maelstrom of bizarre events. In order to get control over his life Henry needs to stop being a pale copy and transform himself to the sparkling original he really is.
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God, Smell and Her
Title: God, Smell and Her
Released: January 28, 2009
Type: Movie
A stream of consciousness, a journey, a wonder of human beings, life and the world, of the corporeal and what can not be seen, but there is. A woman traveling around the world. We follow her to Ireland, Iceland, India, Spain and Egypt, where she faces both real and fictional people.
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Ernst-Hugo
Title: Ernst-Hugo
Character: Self
Released: December 28, 2008
Type: Movie
A gripping portrait of the dramatic, extravagant and ego-centric actor Ernst-Hugo Järegård (1928-1998) who would always be at the center of everything. On the out side he was a hailed and confident diva. In his solitude he was plagued by insomnia, anxiety and a complicated relationship with his father. Includes Ernst-Hugo Järegårds last performance "Aktörens läte/ The sound of the actor" (1998) and "Abstract Poker" (1971).
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Everlasting Moments
Title: Everlasting Moments
Character: Miss Fagerdal
Released: September 24, 2008
Type: Movie
In a time of social change and unrest, war and poverty, a young working class woman, Maria, wins a camera in a lottery. The decision to keep it alters her whole life.
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What No One Knows
Title: What No One Knows
Character: Ingrid Deleuran
Released: February 11, 2008
Type: Movie
When Thomas´ sister dies in an accident, he discovers that her death may be connected to their deceased father´s work in military intelligence. As Thomas embarks on an investigation he soon finds himself and his family under surveillance by an unknown group of people.
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O'Horten
Title: O'Horten
Character: Mrs. Thøgersen
Released: December 26, 2007
Type: Movie
Odd Horton is dependable and contained: he's a train driver retiring after 40 years of service, living a simple life. His idea of adventure is to fly from one city in Norway to another. Starting on the night of his retirement dinner, Odd has a series of dislocating experiences: a boy insists that Odd sit by his bedside while he falls asleep; misadventure causes Odd to miss his last run; he witnesses an arrest; he assists an old man and makes a friend; he takes a trip with a blindfolded driver; he adopts a dog; he takes stock late one night at the roundhouse; he revisits his mother's disappointment in him. How should he live the rest of his life?
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Spelar du ikväll?
Title: Spelar du ikväll?
Released: September 9, 2006
Type: Movie
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Welcome to Verona
Title: Welcome to Verona
Character: Virginia
Released: April 7, 2006
Type: Movie
In a sanatorium for people in their 60's Walter meets Virginia and falls in love. His boyish invites only upset her. In another attempt to capture her interest he directs "Romeo and Juliet" starring the residents of the sanatorium.
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Four Weeks in June
Title: Four Weeks in June
Character: Lilly
Released: August 19, 2005
Type: Movie
Sandra comes to a new town after being convicted of assault after a fight with her boyfriend. She moves into an apartment where her 80-year old neighbor, Lilly, becomes her friend. But Lilly’s life is based on a lie, and as their friendship grows Sandra gets to know more of Lilly’s secrets.
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Title: The Eagle: A Crime Odyssey
Character: Thea Nellemann
Released: October 10, 2004
Type: TV
The Eagle: A Crime Odyssey is a Danish police procedural television series produced by Danmarks Radio, created and written by Peter Thorsboe and Mai Brostrøm. The series debuted on 10 October 2004 in Denmark. It won an International Emmy Award from the International Academy of Television Arts & Sciences for best non-American television drama series in 2005. There were three seasons; the second season premiered in Denmark on 9 October 2005 and the third on 8 October 2006. The last episode originally aired in Denmark on 26 November 2006. The series was filmed on location in various parts of northern Europe, from Berlin and Copenhagen to Oslo and other locations including Iceland. The series has enjoyed particular success in Australia, where it airs on SBS and is available on DVD with English subtitles.
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The Inheritance
Title: The Inheritance
Character: Annelise
Released: February 21, 2003
Type: Movie
A young Danish man, Christoffer, lives a life of joy and happiness with his wife Maria in Stockholm. When his father dies his mother insists that Christoffer take over management of the family industry which is in danger of bankruptcy. He is torn between his chosen life and his sense of duty to his family and its past. When he chooses to step in as manager his family life and self-respect languish.
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Kokken
Title: Kokken
Character: Posedame
Released: May 8, 2002
Type: Movie
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Shake It All About
Title: Shake It All About
Character: Bine
Released: November 16, 2001
Type: Movie
Jacob is a young man used to getting everything he wants. For several years, he has been living in a happy homosexual partnership with Jørgen, and one night Jacob decides to pop the big question to Jørgen. Jørgen happily accepts Jacobs marriage proposal, but then something happens: Jacob falls in love with a girl, and not just any girl. The girl is Caroline, married to Jørgens younger brother Tom.
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Count Axel
Title: Count Axel
Character: Baronesse Gjerløv
Released: April 6, 2001
Type: Movie
Count Axel is a comedy that takes place somewhere in the Nordic countries in 1783. It's a classic comedy about mixed identities, with strong elements of contemporary humour and satire.
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Help! I'm a Fish
Title: Help! I'm a Fish
Character: Anna (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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A Place Nearby
Title: A Place Nearby
Character: Fru Nielsen
Released: January 21, 2000
Type: Movie
The city is gasping for air in the scorching summer heat; everyone is under suspicion; a persistent detective superintendent is burrowing for the truth. A fiercely penetrating drama about a mother's love for her autistic adult son, who is suspected of murdering a local girl. The mother knows her son could have committed the murder, but she conceals her knowledge, and gradually becomes entangled in a thicket of lies. How far is she prepared to go to protect her son who is helpless in so many ways? Does she have it within her to give up the only person she loves?
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The Honour of the House
Title: The Honour of the House
Character: Fru Kristensen
Released: October 8, 1999
Type: Movie
A hypocritical and selfish older sister holds power over her younger, unselfish and humanitarian sister by hiding the shame of her younger sister's pregnancy, with the purpose of upholding the aristocratic status of their name and household. Or that is what we are told, because underneath the facade, is a story of two sisters, who have had intimacy with the same man.
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The Kingdom II
Title: The Kingdom II
Character: Rigmor Mortensen
Released: November 1, 1997
Type: Movie
Set in the neurosurgical ward of Copenhagen's Rigshospitalet, the city and country's main hospital, nicknamed "Riget", "Riget" means "the realm" or "the kingdom" and leads one to think of "dødsriget", the realm of the dead.
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Credo
Title: Credo
Character: Svigermor
Released: September 12, 1997
Type: Movie
Mona is a young woman, engaged to a man who never shows up. She relies strongly on her supportive friend, Anne. Mona suspects that Anne's psychologist, Dr. Lark, is acting funny towards her friend, and decides to investigate. Mona and Anne will find themselves embroiled in a strange world of psychiatry and fanaticism, in which both young women's lives will be endangered.
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Title: Bryggeren
Character: Johanne Luise Heiberg
Released: December 29, 1996
Type: TV
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Hamsun
Title: Hamsun
Character: Marie Hamsun
Released: April 19, 1996
Type: Movie
Knut Hamsun is Norway's most famous and admired author. Ever since he was young he has hated the English for the starvation they caused Norway during WWI. When the Germans occupy Norway 9 April 1940 he welcomes them and the protection they can give from Great Britain. He supports the national socialist ideals, but opposes the way these ideals are turned into action - that Norwegians are jailed and executed. His wife Marie travels in Germany during the war as a sign of support from Knut and herself.
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Like It Never Was Before
Title: Like It Never Was Before
Character: Hjördis
Released: March 3, 1995
Type: Movie
The Runeberg family is an ordinary middle class family, with a house in a suburb, a car and three children. By vacationing in a rented house by the sea, the hope is that the tension and anxiety between Rune and Gunnel will disappear. However, instead of spending time with his family, Rune finds himself attracted to a young man, Petrus. Whatever happens next, Rune realizes, it can never be like it was before.
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Title: The Kingdom
Character: Rigmor Mortensen
Released: November 24, 1994
Type: TV
The Kingdom is the most technologically advanced hospital in Denmark, a gleaming bastion of medical science. A rash of uncanny occurrences, however, begins to weaken the staff's faith in science – a phantom ambulance pulls in every night, but disappears; voices echo in the elevator shaft; and a pregnant doctor's fetus seems to be developing much faster than is natural.
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The Kingdom
Title: The Kingdom
Character: Rigmor Mortensen
Released: November 24, 1994
Type: Movie
Set in the neurosurgical ward of Copenhagen's Rigshospitalet, the city and country's main hospital, nicknamed "Riget", a number of characters, staff and patients alike, encounter bizarre phenomena, both human and supernatural.
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Family Matters
Title: Family Matters
Character: Jan's mother
Released: November 19, 1993
Type: Movie
Jan thinks he is Swedish-Danish, but after his mother's death he discovers he was adopted. As his world begins to fall apart, he decides to find his birth parents. The hunt leads him to Portugal - in a taxi - where more surprises await him.
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Sofie
Title: Sofie
Character: Frederikke
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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The Best Intentions
Title: The Best Intentions
Character: Karin Åkerblom
Released: May 24, 1992
Type: Movie
In this film about Ingmar Bergman's parents, Henrik Bergman is studying for the priesthood and trying to make ends meet when he encounters the lovely, affluent Anna. Despite their social differences, Henrik and Anna fall in love, wed and move to the country. They lead a quiet life as Henrik works as a priest, but it isn't long before the simple people and plain surroundings make Anna long for a more lavish lifestyle, which causes marital stress.
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Title: The Best Intentions
Character: Karin Åkerblom
Released: December 25, 1991
Type: TV
The story of Ingmar Bergman's parents. How they fell in love, married against the wishes of their families, and had a difficult marriage and life in rural Sweden. Bergman's father was a pastor and poor; his mother from a well to do cultured family. It ends with the birth of Ingmar.
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Freud Leaving Home
Title: Freud Leaving Home
Character: Rosha Cohen
Released: November 15, 1991
Type: Movie
In this story, the 60th birthday of Cohen-family matriarch Rosha is the occasion for a gathering of her children from the diverse places around the world. The central character in this drama, however, is Angelique, whose interest in psychoanalysis has earned her the nickname of "Freud." Her older brother is gay and lives in Florida with his lover. Her older sister has married into an Orthodox family, and lives in Jerusalem. They have all gathered in Sweden for their grandmother's birthday. Meanwhile, Rosha's daughter, the mother of these diverse children, has taken ill and is in the hospital. She has been diagnosed with a very advanced, inoperable brain tumor. Freud, who never left home, is perhaps as upset by this news as anyone, and she startles everyone by going out and beginning an affair with a biker. However, she is deeply involved in the new situation: she insists that their mother be brought home from the hospital rather than being allowed to suffer and die there.
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Smykketyven
Title: Smykketyven
Character: Ruth
Released: August 30, 1990
Type: Movie
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Walter and Carlo in America
Title: Walter and Carlo in America
Character: Flora Nymann
Released: November 24, 1989
Type: Movie
The steward Walter and the cobbler Carlo is tasked to provide not the Little, but the High Mermaid to two agents in Kennedy airport in New York. Already on arrival complicate the hapless heroes into a series of spy intrigue involving agents from both sides of the Iron Curtain
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Memories of a Marriage
Title: Memories of a Marriage
Character: Regitze
Released: November 17, 1989
Type: Movie
Karl Åge and Regitze host a summer garden party for close friends, their son, and his family. Karl Åge is quiet, detached; Regitze is spirited, lively. He thinks back: love at first sight during the war, living together unmarried, her mother's hunger strike when they won't baptize their son. Regitze is passionate and forthright; she speaks her mind. He remembers her inviting a derelict for Christmas dinner, and the man shows up with five bashful friends. He recalls her taking on their son's teacher when the man slaps the lad. He remembers her love of dancing and his fear that his social clumsiness might end their relationship. Now, in twilight, he has other things to face.
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Aarhus by Night
Title: Aarhus by Night
Released: January 27, 1989
Type: Movie
A biographical drama from writer and director Nils Malmros in which reality is mixed with childhood memories.
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Katinka
Title: Katinka
Character: Helene
Released: August 19, 1988
Type: Movie
A new foreman, Huus, arrives in a sleepy Danish village, much to the delight of the unmarried women there. However, Huus becomes very friendly with Katinka and her husband, Bai, the stationmaster. Katinka, childless and in frail health, gradually falls in love with Huus, though her husband does not seem to notice. Based on the work by Herman Bang.
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Hip Hip Hurrah!
Title: Hip Hip Hurrah!
Character: Henny
Released: September 4, 1987
Type: Movie
The life and times of the Scandinavian artists' colony who lived in Skagen on the Danish coast during the 1890s. Not so much a biographical account, rather a portrait of a way of life. The painters became famous for the way they used the light in their work, and this has also been mirrored in the cinematography.
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Babette's Feast
Title: Babette's Feast
Character: Narrator (voice)
Released: August 11, 1987
Type: Movie
A French housekeeper with a mysterious past brings quiet revolution in the form of one exquisite meal to a circle of starkly pious villagers in late 19th century Denmark.
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The Wolf at the Door
Title: The Wolf at the Door
Character: Ida Molard
Released: September 5, 1986
Type: Movie
Chronicling a period of time in Paul Gauguin's life, this film follows him through his struggles in love and the financial problems caused by the inability to sell his artwork.
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Title: Ude på noget
Character: Ruth
Released: September 1, 1984
Type: TV
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Den ubetænksomme elsker
Title: Den ubetænksomme elsker
Character: Helena, Sanna's Mother
Released: October 15, 1982
Type: Movie
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Your Money or Your Life
Title: Your Money or Your Life
Character: Ellen Worm, Claus' ex-kone
Released: February 25, 1982
Type: Movie
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Title: The Guldbagge Awards
Character: Self - Best Actress winner
Released: October 30, 1981
Type: TV
The Guldbagge Awards is an official and annual Swedish film awards ceremony honoring achievements in the Swedish film industry. Winners are awarded a statuette depicting a rose chafer, better known by the name Guldbaggen. The awards, first presented in 1964 at the Grand Hôtel in Stockholm, are overseen by the Swedish Film Institute. It is described as the Swedish equivalent of the Academy Awards. The awards ceremony was first televised in 1981.
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Title: The Guldbagge Awards
Character: Self
Released: October 30, 1981
Type: TV
The Guldbagge Awards is an official and annual Swedish film awards ceremony honoring achievements in the Swedish film industry. Winners are awarded a statuette depicting a rose chafer, better known by the name Guldbaggen. The awards, first presented in 1964 at the Grand Hôtel in Stockholm, are overseen by the Swedish Film Institute. It is described as the Swedish equivalent of the Academy Awards. The awards ceremony was first televised in 1981.
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Wolf Hour
Title: Wolf Hour
Character: Anna
Released: September 17, 1981
Type: Movie
The adaptation of Helle Stangerup's psychological horror, telling the story of a married couple who raises wolfes, in order for the husband to study the creatures. They hire Ellinor for additional help, but soon they wonder if she guards supernatural secrets.
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Undskyld vi er her
Title: Undskyld vi er her
Character: Sekretær
Released: December 26, 1980
Type: Movie
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Danmark er lukket
Title: Danmark er lukket
Character: Akademiker
Released: October 31, 1980
Type: Movie
In the future, Denmark has been made a nuclear waste dump and the Danish language is banned.
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Kvindesind
Title: Kvindesind
Character: Bente
Released: April 7, 1980
Type: Movie
A psychological drama. The action takes place within a few hours in a woman's life. She is burdened by the decision whether she should leave husband and child in favor of an American she has fallen in love with.
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It's a World Full of Children
Title: It's a World Full of Children
Character: Annemarie
Released: February 8, 1980
Type: Movie
Susanne, a journalist, and Morten, a cellist, desperately want a child, but are unsuccessful. The situation leads to desperate acts, occasional drunkenness, and solace for her with a discreet lover.
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Charly & Steffen
Title: Charly & Steffen
Released: December 21, 1979
Type: Movie
A sequel to "Me and Charley", it starts with Steffen's graduation from a secondary school in Århus (Denmark), where he later that day bumps into Charly and their friendship continues while portraying life in Århus 1979.
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Kick Me in the Traditions!
Title: Kick Me in the Traditions!
Character: Sygeplejerske
Released: September 17, 1979
Type: Movie
Based on Leif Panduro's 1958 satire classic. David, a senior high-school student, aims a swift kick at his principal's behind and is committed to a psychiatric ward from the perspective of which he takes a close look at his allegedly sane family. They, of course, are the real loonies. The psychiatrists are worse. Only lovely class-mate Lis is down-to-earth and trustworthy.
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Title: Matador
Character: Ingeborg Skjern
Released: November 11, 1978
Type: TV
Matador is a Danish TV series produced and shown between 1978 and 1982. It is set in the fictional Danish town of Korsbæk between 1929 and 1947. It follows the lives of a range of characters from across the social spectrum, focusing specifically on the rivalry between the families of two businessmen: The banker Hans Christian Varnæs, an established local worthy, and social climber Mads Skjern, who arrives in town as the series opens. The name Matador was taken from the localised edition of the boardgame Monopoly, also the series' tentative English title. In addition, in contemporary Danish a "matador" is often used to describe a business tycoon, in the series referring to the character of Mads Skjern and his craftiness as a self-made entrepreneur. Directed by famed Danish film maker Erik Balling, Matador was the idea of author Lise Nørgaard who wrote the bulk of the episodes alongside Karen Smith, Jens Louis Petersen and Paul Hammerich. The series is one of the most well-known and popular examples of Danish television and represents the peak of longtime development of Danish TV drama by the public service channel Danmarks Radio. The series has become part of the modern self-understanding of Danes, partly because of its successful mix of melodrama and a distinct warm Danish humour in the depiction of characters, which were portrayed by a wide range of the most popular Danish actors at the time; but also not least because of its accurate portrayal of a turbulent Denmark from around the start of the Great Depression and through Nazi Germany's occupation of Denmark in World War II.
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Me and Charly
Title: Me and Charly
Character: Helle, Steffens mor
Released: March 19, 1978
Type: Movie
Steffen is a good kid, a teenager who has recently finished school and is looking for work. He lives with his widowed mother, a newspaper reporter. Very little throws him off his stride, whether it is his girlfriend's jealousy of his friendship with Charly, a reform-school boy, or his mother's drunken, playful amorousness one night, because he reminds her of his father.
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Vandalism
Title: Vandalism
Released: November 4, 1977
Type: Movie
Based upon the novel "Hærværk" by Tom Kristensen about the self destructive person. The literary reviewer Ole Jastrau chooses to free himself from his well-ordered middle class life. He allow the seriously left-wing writer Steffensen move in with himself which soon causes disintegration of his home an marriage.
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Watch Your Back, Professor!
Title: Watch Your Back, Professor!
Character: Madame Natasha
Released: August 19, 1977
Type: Movie
When a boring collage professor is mistaken for his cousin, he gets into all kinds of trouble, with hilarious results.
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Going for Broke
Title: Going for Broke
Character: Skuespilleren
Released: February 18, 1977
Type: Movie
Three out of work actors breaks into a bank through the toilet of a railroad station.
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Louises hus
Title: Louises hus
Character: Louise
Released: January 1, 1977
Type: Movie
Louise is a frustrated housewife. She returns home after a three months recreation following a nervous breakdown. She tries to find out exactly what happened at the night of the breakdown, but no one wants to talk about it.
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That Brief Summer
Title: That Brief Summer
Character: Kirsten
Released: January 23, 1976
Type: Movie
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Only the Truth
Title: Only the Truth
Character: Ilse Brehmer
Released: August 22, 1975
Type: Movie
A woman, Ilse Brehmer, finds the body of a dead man, a journalist. He has been murdered, and later when the body turns up in the harbor, the woman denies everything, even though witnesses has seen her nearby the crime scene. She simply can’t remember anything, but the detective on the case, Mørck, knows how to smell a lie and soon start to unravel this bloody mess.
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Good and Evil
Title: Good and Evil
Released: May 26, 1975
Type: Movie
Jørgen Leth can squeeze poetry from a stone and wit from dust, and he can find love where the milk of human kindness runs dry. In a series of tableaux of Life in Denmark, he carries absurdism to a happy extreme. To act out his minuscule non-dramas, he uses a motley crew of professional actors like Ghita Nørby and Claus Nissen, writer Dan Turéll plus a snake charmer, a bicycle racer and a circus queen.
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Bertram og Lisa
Title: Bertram og Lisa
Character: Lisa
Released: January 2, 1975
Type: Movie
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The Misanthrope
Title: The Misanthrope
Character: Célimène
Released: May 10, 1974
Type: Movie
Bergman took one of his favourite plays to Copenhagen for a guest performance, which was even broadcast on Danish TV. In his Copenhagen The Misanthrope, Bergman maintained a dual approach. On the one hand, a production of Molière's play as a theatrical game performed in style and intellectually conceived; on the other hand, an exposure, through physical and psychological intensity, of the emotional tragedy in which Alceste and Celemine are both victims. Expectations were high prior to Bergman's production of The Misanthrope. A reviewer wrote, 'For the first time Molière's connection to the Danish stage is intercepted by a director whose forte is physiological tragedy, Strindberg over Holberg'. Many reviews had expected Bergman to put his very personal stamp on the production. Instead they experienced 'a clean Molière' and were struck by Bergman's faithfulness to the original mise-en-scene and to the classical rhythm of Molière's text.
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Et dukkehjem
Title: Et dukkehjem
Character: Nora
Released: April 14, 1974
Type: Movie
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Solens børn
Title: Solens børn
Character: Elena
Released: August 27, 1972
Type: Movie
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Our Home Is Our Castle
Title: Our Home Is Our Castle
Released: March 7, 1971
Type: Movie
Residents of the old house are quite happy with their existence. But once they find out that the authorities plan to demolish the entire neighborhood including their house in order to build a business center they decide to unite and fight the plan...
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Hooray for the Blue Hussars
Title: Hooray for the Blue Hussars
Character: Frida
Released: November 20, 1970
Type: Movie
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Værelset
Title: Værelset
Character: Eva
Released: October 6, 1970
Type: Movie
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Amour
Title: Amour
Character: Elisa
Released: August 6, 1970
Type: Movie
This three-part movie begins with a young woman married to an older, cold-hearted man in the year 1200. Two rivals have a swordfight over the affections of the woman. Part two takes place in 1910 and finds an amorously unfaithful wife taking on her many lovers while her unsuspecting husband lurks nearby. The final part finds a count and countess engaging in extramarital affairs in France during the 1840s.
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The Song of the Red Ruby
Title: The Song of the Red Ruby
Character: Embla
Released: March 2, 1970
Type: Movie
A young, idealistic business student has ambitions to be a concert pianist, but his obsession with beautiful women keeps him from achieving his goal. To earn money for his tuition, he takes a job as headmaster of a small girls' school. There his weakness for beautiful women is put to the test when he is pursued by a bevy of sexy coeds.
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The Olsen Gang in a Fix
Title: The Olsen Gang in a Fix
Character: Bodil Hansen
Released: October 3, 1969
Type: Movie
A good looking female social welfare worker makes Egon Olsen forget about crimes for some time, but when an American gangster breaks into a local bank and the police think its Egon's work, he has to get back to work to prove he's innocent.
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Ladies Man
Title: Ladies Man
Released: September 27, 1969
Type: Movie
Mrs. Jonsen discovered after her husband's death, that he was not at all a paragon, she thought. Her sister and some diary notes reveal him as a man with numerous amourous adventures.
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What a Pity About Daddy
Title: What a Pity About Daddy
Released: July 19, 1968
Type: Movie
About the young Aarhus businessman Jacob Hansen who is going to a congress in Copenhagen. His competitor in the firm sends his secretary over to spy and bring Jacob into disrepute. The secretary has sympathy for Jacob, creating complications when his wife show up.
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Life with Daddy
Title: Life with Daddy
Character: Bitten Nielsen
Released: December 26, 1967
Type: Movie
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Love Thy Neighbour
Title: Love Thy Neighbour
Character: Britt
Released: September 1, 1967
Type: Movie
Love Thy Neighbour (Danish: Elsk... din næste!, German: Vergiß nicht deine Frau zu küssen ) is a 1967 Danish-German comedy film directed by Egil Kolstø and starring Walter Giller.
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Wife on vacation
Title: Wife on vacation
Character: Bodil Thorsen
Released: July 28, 1967
Type: Movie
Allan Thorsen er træt af sin kone, men han har svært ved at få sagt at han vil skilles. Derfor arrangerer han en skiferie, hvor hun skal blive forelsket i en anden mand, således at han kan slippe af med hende uden at han selv skal gøre noget. Hun finder da også en mand der er interesseret, men så bliver Allan jaloux og snart forsøger Allan at vinde sin kone tilbage. Sagen kompliceret dog af, at Allan elskerinde pludselig møder op på feriehotellet.
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Nu stiger den
Title: Nu stiger den
Character: Caroline
Released: August 24, 1966
Type: Movie
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Flagermusen
Title: Flagermusen
Character: Adele
Released: August 1, 1966
Type: Movie
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Ich suche einen Mann
Title: Ich suche einen Mann
Character: Barbara Schönfelder
Released: February 3, 1966
Type: Movie
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The Girl and the Playboy
Title: The Girl and the Playboy
Character: Ung pige på gaden
Released: October 15, 1965
Type: Movie
A millionaire gets amnesia after a hit to the head and now he has to rediscover his past and decide what kind of man he wants to be in the future.
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Erik Soya's 17
Title: Erik Soya's 17
Character: Vibeke
Released: September 6, 1965
Type: Movie
In the summer of 1913, 17-year-old Jacob (Ole Soltoft), a Danish high school student, lives in the frustrating limbo between boyhood and manhood. He worries about his excessive focus on masturbation and, although he is aware of the sexual overtures by the housemaid Sophie (Lise Rosendahl), Jacob doesn't know how to respond to her.
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It's Nifty in the Navy
Title: It's Nifty in the Navy
Character: Hanne Hansen
Released: September 3, 1965
Type: Movie
It's Nifty in the Navy is a 1965 Danish comedy film directed by Finn Henriksen and starring Dirch Passer.
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Majorens oppasser
Title: Majorens oppasser
Released: February 14, 1964
Type: Movie
The Danish minister of defense decides to join the army incognito to observe. This causes CHAOS. It also causes him to meet the major's daughter. He ends up becoming the major's orderly which gets him closer to the daughter.
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Three Girls in Paris
Title: Three Girls in Paris
Character: Hanne
Released: October 12, 1963
Type: Movie
Three girls in Paris is the story of three Danish girls (Ghita Nørby, Susse Wold and Hanne Borchsenius) traveling to Paris, but after having placed suitcase and money on the hotel and takes off in the city, they forget what it's called and where it is located. They are helped by a Parisian taxi driver, and meets a series of typical French.
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Hvis lille pige er du?
Title: Hvis lille pige er du?
Character: Eva
Released: August 1, 1963
Type: Movie
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Dronningens vagtmester
Title: Dronningens vagtmester
Released: March 29, 1963
Type: Movie
Da svenskerne har besat en dansk herregård, beslutter Svend Poulsen sig for at hjælpe familien i sikkerhed. Undervejs bliver Ib taget til fange. Svend Poulsen og hans gønger udgiver sig for at være en deling svenske soldater, der ankommer til borgen hvor Ib sidder lænket på taget. Under middagen om aften bliver den svenske kommendant mistænktsom og snart kæmper soldaterne mod hinanden. Det lykkes dog Svend at befri Ib.
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The Girl and the Press Photographer
Title: The Girl and the Press Photographer
Character: Lene Kristiansen
Released: February 15, 1963
Type: Movie
Bastian and Lene are a good couple, as a journalist and press photographer. They take turns to get ideas for how to get a scoop for the magazine "Tit og Lyt". They agree to play husband and wife so that Bastian can get an apartment. Lene is deeply in love with Bastian why she gets their mutual friend Soren to send a man from the housing authority. He says that they most have one child to stay in the apartment.
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Sextet
Title: Sextet
Released: January 1, 1963
Type: Movie
Six people of different ages and with varying mental health problems are forced to spend the night together by bad weather and react upon each other.
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Rikki og mændene
Title: Rikki og mændene
Character: Rikki
Released: October 15, 1962
Type: Movie
Rikki was devorced recently, and now find herself paying the bills on her own. And life is not cheap, especially when you have a young child to care for. To make ends meet, Rikki begins to frequent a bar where she can work as a prostitute.
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Oskar
Title: Oskar
Character: Eva Hansen
Released: October 12, 1962
Type: Movie
Oskar? That's my driver. And Tina, my maid, must have taken my suitcase with her to the baron - the one my daughter should have been engaged to. But now she is having a child with Oskar. And one of my people has stolen more than 300,000 DKR from me, because he wants to marry my daughter, who is not my daughter. And now the has girl run off with all of my jewels ..
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Den kære familie
Title: Den kære familie
Character: Ida Friis
Released: August 3, 1962
Type: Movie
Copenhagen around the turn of the century - December 29th, 1899. Great merchant and shipowner Jacob Friis is one of Copenhagen's richest men. His home is the gathering place for family and friends. Since his wife's dead 10 years earlier, he shares sense of family and business acumen with his three daughters. Jacob wants to find a nobleman for his daughter Emily. Baron Claes is a very charming gentleman, but also a great womanizer...
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Crazy Paradise
Title: Crazy Paradise
Character: Edith Ibenholdt
Released: July 26, 1962
Type: Movie
Romantic comedy, based on the discovery that eggs from a particular island provide men with great virility and make them irresistible.
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Han, hun, Dirch og Dario
Title: Han, hun, Dirch og Dario
Character: Marianne Borg
Released: March 23, 1962
Type: Movie
Director Paul Borg (Ebbe Langberg) neglects his young, beautiful wife Marianne (Ghita Nørby). He even forget their wedding day, in favor of a new fast sports car, a beautiful silver-gray Jaguar. During his drive, he runs out of gas. A young lady Laura Lublinski (Hanne Borchsenius), helps him and he takes an innocent flirtation with her. When Marianne learns this, she moves home and dump into an artist community with Jenny (Bodil Steen), Ovengaden of water 52 in Christianshavn. Here she takes the unrepentant Don Juan, Mario (Dario Campeotto) and the guitar-playing Eigil (Dirch compatible).
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Landsbylægen
Title: Landsbylægen
Character: Grethe Strand
Released: December 26, 1961
Type: Movie
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Flemming på kostskole
Title: Flemming på kostskole
Character: Frk. Birk
Released: December 22, 1961
Type: Movie
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The Musketeers
Title: The Musketeers
Released: December 9, 1961
Type: Movie
Vi er i krigsåret 1658 og vinteren i februar er så hård, at bælterne er frosset til. Den svenske Kong Karl den 10. Gustav, der er ankommet Tyskland opholder sig nu i Jylland. Han kan, sammen med sin hær gå over bælterne og videre mod København. Svend Gønge får en særdeles vanskelig opgave af Frederik den 3.: 50.000 rigsdaler, der tilhører kongen, skal bringes fra Vordingborg Kirke til København.
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Den grønne elevator
Title: Den grønne elevator
Released: August 21, 1961
Type: Movie
Hans og Mona beslutter at give deres respektive ægtefælder lidt at tænke over, ved at blive fundet i en kompromitterende situation under en fælles ferie. For at lette den lidt akavede stemning, beslutter de at søge hjælp i barskabet, hvor de får mikset en potent cocktail sammen, som de døber Grøn Elevator. Det bliver starten på en munter aften.
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Min kone fra Paris
Title: Min kone fra Paris
Character: Irene Hagenfryd
Released: August 7, 1961
Type: Movie
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Peter's baby
Title: Peter's baby
Character: Tony
Released: July 28, 1961
Type: Movie
Peters baby is a 1961 Danish comedy film directed by Annelise Reenberg and starring Ebbe Langberg.
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Flemming and Kvik
Title: Flemming and Kvik
Released: October 16, 1960
Type: Movie
A Danish movie about the life of Flemming and his best friend Kvik.
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Sømand i knibe
Title: Sømand i knibe
Character: Eva Thygesen
Released: September 19, 1960
Type: Movie
Eva comes to visit the ship, and when the alarm is raised and they are facing the sea, she hides in a cabin. This leads to various complications, not least because the admiral later come aboard.
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Baronessen fra benzintanken
Title: Baronessen fra benzintanken
Character: Anne von Rosensteen
Released: September 4, 1960
Type: Movie
Danish comedy film
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Frihedens pris
Title: Frihedens pris
Character: Lis
Released: March 11, 1960
Type: Movie
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Charles' Aunt
Title: Charles' Aunt
Character: Laura Hornemann
Released: October 12, 1959
Type: Movie
Charles and Peter have passed their law degree and are looking forward to wooing a few girls in the country. For that, they need a chaperone and persuade their fellow student Ditlev to play Charles's aunt from Brazil. Ditlev has a talent for acting and takes the role very seriously, but when Charles's real aunt turns up, things get complicated.
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De sjove aar
Title: De sjove aar
Character: Marianne Birk
Released: August 31, 1959
Type: Movie
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A Hullaballoo at the Castle
Title: A Hullaballoo at the Castle
Released: April 9, 1959
Type: Movie
The cheerful, traveling musicians Flink and Villy meet sweet music in the form of two girls. Unfortunately, the chrome nut is tone deaf and chases them away. Luck smiles on them, however, because the nearby castle Bullerborg is abandoned. Flink and Villy move in - and get mixed up in a fight between a cunning lawyer, a bankrupt count and a sausage maker family.
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3 må man være
Title: 3 må man være
Character: Kate Halling
Released: February 13, 1959
Type: Movie
A lawyer has a wife and a mistress. He loves them both equally high and together, they're the perfect wife.
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Vagabonderne paa Bakkegaarden
Title: Vagabonderne paa Bakkegaarden
Character: Hanne
Released: December 19, 1958
Type: Movie
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Styrmand Karlsen
Title: Styrmand Karlsen
Character: Anne Marie Bøgelund
Released: October 30, 1958
Type: Movie
First mate Knud Karlsen has just received sad news from his girlfriend. On board the ship is also chef Valdemar, sailor Ole, owner's confident son Robert and a whole bunch of eager sailors. On board develops the drama out every minute, culminating in the film's climax, when a fire breaks out on board
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Det lille hotel
Title: Det lille hotel
Released: March 16, 1958
Type: Movie
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Jul i Skovridergaarden
Title: Jul i Skovridergaarden
Character: Eva Lund
Released: November 22, 1957
Type: Movie
Finn and Claus are best friends and both have a thing for their cute friend Eva. They both go to Copenhagen to study law but Claus would rather study music/piano and takes private lessons and Finn isn't the academic type. Who gets Eva?
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Sin Alley
Title: Sin Alley
Character: Else
Released: August 22, 1957
Type: Movie
A fresh faced country boy comes to Copenhagen looking for a job and falls in with a group of hoodlums who use him as bait to lure older gay men they can rob and blackmail.
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The Young Have No Time
Title: The Young Have No Time
Character: Helle
Released: December 26, 1956
Type: Movie
A tale of wealthy youth in post-WWII Copenhagen.