Birgitte Federspiel

Birgitte Federspiel

Born: September 6, 1925
Died: February 2, 2005
in Copenhagen, Denmark
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Birgitte Federspiel (6 September 1925 – 2 February 2005) was a Danish film, theater and TV actress. She won two Bodil Awards for best actress in 1955 (Ordet) and 1959 (En fremmed banker på).

Born Karen Birgitte Federspiel in Copenhagen, she was the daughter of actor Ejner Federspiel and Gunver Fönss. She had a notable film roles as Inger in Ordet (1955) and, in later life, as Martine in Babette's Feast (1987), while on TV she played Baroness von Rydtger in three episodes of Matador. She died in Odense in 2005, aged 79.

Movies for Birgitte Federspiel...

Title: Defense
Character: Elna Bering, Manfreds mor
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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Kat
Title: Kat
Character: Gundine
Released: June 8, 2001
Type: Movie
Due to a failed séance of her flat mate's quirky grandparents, the cat of law student Maria gets possessed by demonic powers and starts some horrible massacres, adding even more trouble to Maria's already complicated personal situation after the split from her boyfriend Henrik.
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Indien
Title: Indien
Character: Gammel dame
Released: January 1, 1999
Type: Movie
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Forbudt for børn
Title: Forbudt for børn
Character: Grandmother
Released: March 26, 1998
Type: Movie
The second film of the trilogy, "It is forbidden for children". The family is pushed into depression and the heavy drinking mother Skrubsak does not help.
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Barbara
Title: Barbara
Character: Ellen Katrine
Released: October 2, 1997
Type: Movie
Young vicar Mr. Paul arrives at the Faroe Islands to take up a benefice, and meets the young Barbara, twice married to vicars, and with both husbands laid cold in the grave. Despite the warnings of the surrounding community and his own religious scruples, he falls victim to Barbara's at once innocent and sinful charm. The appearance of the charming and gallant Andreas Heide in Thorshavn puts their love to the severest of tests.
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The Noodlepoop
Title: The Noodlepoop
Character: Mormor
Released: July 7, 1997
Type: Movie
Ida and her family are recovering from the divorce. She is looking forward to the upcoming dance contest. She is also growing up and developing romantic urges of her own. But she doesn't have good memories of romance. The third of Jesper W. Nielsen trilogy: Buldermanden, Lykkefanten and Ogginoggen.
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Southern Comfort
Title: Southern Comfort
Character: Grandmother
Released: January 1, 1997
Type: Movie
7-year old Ida has to take care of her kid brother Skrubsak, feed the family and keep the child welfare officers at stake. Ida's father has left the family for another woman, and so far Mum has found consolation in the bottle. The second of Jesper W. Nielsen trilogy: Buldermanden, Lykkefanten and Ogginoggen.
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Looping
Title: Looping
Character: Nielsens søster
Released: December 12, 1996
Type: Movie
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The Bogey Man
Title: The Bogey Man
Character: Mormor
Released: June 6, 1996
Type: Movie
The first of Jesper W. Nielsen trilogy: Buldermanden, Lykkefanten and Ogginoggen. Ida and her little brother are visiting their strict grandmother who threatens them with the bogey man if they are not kind. When Ida's little brother gets a toy dog from her grandmother, Ida becomes jealous and lures the brother to show the dog for the bogey man.
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Carl Th. Dreyer: My Metier
Title: Carl Th. Dreyer: My Metier
Character: Interview Subject
Released: December 28, 1995
Type: Movie
Torben Skjødt Jensen’s elegant documentary is a collage of memories and reflections on one of cinema’s greatest directors. Visually rich and densely layered, Carl Th. Dreyer—My Metier illuminates an artist too little understood and too important to overlook. Through interviews, historical writings, and rare archival footage, a portrait of Dreyer emerges: an austere perfectionist, yes, but also a passionate man possessing a genuine sense of humor.
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Carlo and Ester
Title: Carlo and Ester
Character: Viola
Released: March 4, 1994
Type: Movie
A pair of octogenarians meet, fall in love, and have a passionate love affair, much to the horror of their disapproving children.
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Babette's Feast
Title: Babette's Feast
Character: Martine
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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Peter von Scholten
Title: Peter von Scholten
Character: Dronning Caroline Amalie
Released: February 27, 1987
Type: Movie
Han frigav slaverne i 1848. Han talte konge og regering imod. Han elskede sine samtidige koner lige højt. Han var farverig, han var enevældig, han var Danmarks sidste generalguvernør på De vestindiske Øer, hans navn var Peter von Scholten. Filmen om ham er en pragtfuld historie om storhed, magt og stædighed på den ene side, og om kærlighed, loyalitet og vemod på den anden. Den er et farverigt galleri af personer, der viser tiden, danskeren i det fremmede – og det sorte menneske i relief til det hvide.
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Sidste akt
Title: Sidste akt
Character: Lotta Henderson
Released: January 23, 1987
Type: Movie
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My Granny's House
Title: My Granny's House
Character: Tante Laura
Released: August 31, 1984
Type: Movie
Danish author Soya's acidly funny turn-of-the-century memoir novel turned into a robust black comedy. After his mother's death, tiny tot Søren goes to live with his wilful, rich and stingy Granny, who wants to improve his manners. She also wants to make him sole heir to her fortune, which everybody else covets. Mutual respect, even love, develops between the two. And death by poison enlivens things.
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Holidays in jail
Title: Holidays in jail
Character: Cornelia Møller
Released: October 13, 1978
Type: Movie
Fængslende feriedage is a 1978 Danish family film directed by Finn Henriksen and starring Jørgen Ryg. It was also Dirch Passer's final film.
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Firmaskovturen
Title: Firmaskovturen
Released: February 10, 1978
Type: Movie
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Watch Your Back, Professor!
Title: Watch Your Back, Professor!
Character: Ægtepar i kunstforretning / kone
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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Nyt legetøj
Title: Nyt legetøj
Released: May 11, 1977
Type: Movie
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That Brief Summer
Title: That Brief Summer
Released: January 23, 1976
Type: Movie
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Julefrokosten
Title: Julefrokosten
Released: January 1, 1976
Type: Movie
About the traditional celebration at Christmas.
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Nøddebo præstegård
Title: Nøddebo præstegård
Character: Fru. Blicher
Released: November 22, 1974
Type: Movie
Ny filmatisering af den klassiske danske julefortælling om studenten Nikolaj og hans to ældre brødre, der holder ferie hos den rare præstefamilie i Nøddebo. Præstens døtre Emmy og Andrea Margrethe interesserer i høj grad Nikolaj, men det bliver hans brødre, pigerne forloves med.
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Nineteen Red Roses
Title: Nineteen Red Roses
Character: Louise Bech
Released: August 17, 1974
Type: Movie
After his girlfriend is killed in an automobile accident, a man decides the best revenge on those responsible is to murder their loved ones.
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The Olsen Gang Runs Amok
Title: The Olsen Gang Runs Amok
Character: Ragna Quist
Released: October 5, 1973
Type: Movie
When Egon Olsen gets out of Vridlose State Prision once again, his friends Benny and Kjeld do not want to know about his new ingenious plan: they are actually WORKING in a shop! Thus, he has to think of something else to get his hands on the money of some international gangster.
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Z.P.G.
Title: Z.P.G.
Character: Psychiatrist
Released: May 25, 1972
Type: Movie
In the not too distant future, an overpopulated Earth government makes it illegal to have children for a generation. One couple, unsatisfied with their substitute robot baby, breaks the rules.
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Og så er der bal bagefter
Title: Og så er der bal bagefter
Character: Astrid
Released: December 18, 1970
Type: Movie
The Performance Will Be Followed by a Dance
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Hagbard and Signe
Title: Hagbard and Signe
Character: King Hamund's widow
Released: January 16, 1967
Type: Movie
Seeking revenge against the rival clan responsible for the killing, Hagbard, the son of a slain Norse king, calms down long enough to establish a truce. He also falls in love with Signe, the daughter of his one-time enemy. Signe's former beau, sizzling with jealousy, breaks the truce and makes it appear that Hagbard was responsible.
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Søskende
Title: Søskende
Character: Irene
Released: September 2, 1966
Type: Movie
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Hunger
Title: Hunger
Character: Her sister
Released: August 19, 1966
Type: Movie
In 1890, Pontus, the starving writer, wanders the streets of Christiania, in search of love and a chance to get his work published. All he meets is defeat and suffering while his sense of reality is withering. One moment he is delighted and the next he curses everybody. All the time he manages to maintain human dignity and pride.
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Dyden går amok
Title: Dyden går amok
Character: Ina, Edwards hustru
Released: March 24, 1966
Type: Movie
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Tine
Title: Tine
Character: Fru Berg
Released: September 4, 1964
Type: Movie
Danish melodrama about a housemaid struggling to find normalcy and love in the midst of war.
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Death Comes at High Noon
Title: Death Comes at High Noon
Character: Merete Lindberg
Released: July 31, 1964
Type: Movie
A dark evening, a crime writer Peter Sander, drives through a forest when his car runs out of petrol . A little distance from the road there is a house with lighted windows, and he goes there to borrow a phone. Suddenly he trips over a tree root and sprain one foot . He lags up the forest road . Then there is a shot, a moment after running steps. A beam cuts through the dark. It goes out . The steps moves away. Peter gets up and stomps up to the house . No one responds to his knokking.
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Gudrun
Title: Gudrun
Character: The landlady
Released: November 20, 1963
Type: Movie
Danish drama about a young woman's rites of passage in finding romance.
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Hvis lille pige er du?
Title: Hvis lille pige er du?
Character: Fru Jansen
Released: August 1, 1963
Type: Movie
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Dronningens vagtmester
Title: Dronningens vagtmester
Character: Boel "Kulsoen"
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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Drømmen om det hvide slot
Title: Drømmen om det hvide slot
Character: Fru Strand
Released: December 26, 1962
Type: Movie
Throughout his childhood "The White Castle " stood as something special for Susanne . The towering spiers, the swans in the moat , yes everything she can recall his mind's eye . But Susanne has never seen the castle - she are totally blind! One day she nevertheless castle completely into poå life . Count's two sons , Walter and Albert , discover the beautiful woman hiding behind the dark briller.Det is the start of a drama that will shake to its foundations - and do not let any of the implicedrede be unchanged. Unless they otherwise are alive ...
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The Musketeers
Title: The Musketeers
Character: Kulsoen
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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Komtessen
Title: Komtessen
Character: Sonia Hardenborg
Released: February 27, 1961
Type: Movie
In the village Karrild, the Countess Sonia Hardenborg and a young unmarried woman, Marta, give birth to a daughter on the same day. Marta dies after birth, so Marta's daughter, Betina, come under the care of the countess. 17 years later, Betina and Countess Sonia's daughter, Maria, meet, as Betina is living in a home for orphaned girls, which is adjacent to the Hardenborg estate. The two girls become friends, and Maria invites Betina to visit her at Hardenborg, to greet her parents Sonia and Otto Hardenborg and her brother Count Flemming. Meanwhile, Betina's father, Frank Jensen, starts working in the estate's woods, and when the two girls come to visit him, he is shocked by the resemblance between the young countess and Betina's mother Marta.
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Den sidste vinter
Title: Den sidste vinter
Character: Anne Sørensen
Released: September 30, 1960
Type: Movie
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Charles' Aunt
Title: Charles' Aunt
Character: Donna Lucia d` Alvadorez
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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A Stranger Knocks
Title: A Stranger Knocks
Character: Vibeke
Released: April 21, 1959
Type: Movie
One day a strange man comes by and, seeing the lonely situation, invites himself in out of the rain. The woman is quietly hospitable and allows him to remain overnight. He stays on the next day and the next day. Pretty soon the woman begins to fall in love.
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Cupid on the Phone
Title: Cupid on the Phone
Character: Misse, Liebergs kone
Released: December 16, 1957
Type: Movie
During a train journey, Carolus, master of literature, meets the charming Italian Enrico. The two men discuss eroticism, and it ends with a bet: In a few days in Copenhagen, Enrico will seduce four women. Coincidentally - and unfortunately, Carolus' wife is the first Enrico to date.
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En kvinde er overflødig
Title: En kvinde er overflødig
Character: Ester, enkefru Tangs datter
Released: April 29, 1957
Type: Movie
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Vi som går stjernevejen
Title: Vi som går stjernevejen
Character: Nanna, skuespiller
Released: October 29, 1956
Type: Movie
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Kispus
Title: Kispus
Character: Dora
Released: May 6, 1956
Type: Movie
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Ordet
Title: Ordet
Character: Inger Borgen (uncredited)
Released: January 9, 1955
Type: Movie
The three sons of devout Danish farmer Morten have widely disparate religious beliefs. Youngest son Anders shares his father's religion, but eldest son Mikkel has lost his faith, while middle child Johannes has become delusional and proclaims that he is Jesus Christ himself. When Mikkel's wife, Inger goes into a difficult childbirth, everyone's beliefs are put to the test.
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Adam and Eve
Title: Adam and Eve
Character: Tove, antikvarboghandlerens kone
Released: April 6, 1953
Type: Movie
It's all about an anonymous little gray book originating from sexually advanced Paris. The book doesn't look like much, but shouldn't be judged by its cover. Wherever this book goes, something will happen. And for sure, this book goes around.
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Kærlighedsdoktoren
Title: Kærlighedsdoktoren
Character: Arkæologi-Magisteren Bente Berg
Released: September 8, 1952
Type: Movie
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Familien Schmidt
Title: Familien Schmidt
Released: March 16, 1951
Type: Movie
dansk film der skal ses
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Susanne
Title: Susanne
Character: Doris Rudholt
Released: March 24, 1950
Type: Movie
Summer in the small market town of Stenvig equals life and good earnings for the city's shoppers. Love flourishes side by side with the urge to act, and especially the baker's daughter Susanne makes the young men's hearts beat fast. But when the infatuated Otto gets a little too close, it has major consequences for Susanne.
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For frihed og ret
Title: For frihed og ret
Released: October 28, 1949
Type: Movie
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I de lyse nætter
Title: I de lyse nætter
Released: March 25, 1948
Type: Movie
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Jeg mødte en morder
Title: Jeg mødte en morder
Released: November 17, 1943
Type: Movie
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Ta' briller paa
Title: Ta' briller paa
Character: Birgit Ernst
Released: May 31, 1942
Type: Movie