John Martinus

John Martinus

Born: July 27, 1939
Died: August 17, 2016
in København

Movies for John Martinus...

A Royal Affair
Title: A Royal Affair
Character: Reventlow
Released: March 29, 2012
Type: Movie
A young queen falls in love with her physician, and they start a revolution that changes their nation forever.
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Title: The Bridge
Character: Svend
Released: September 21, 2011
Type: TV
When a body is found on the bridge between Denmark and Sweden, right on the border, Danish inspector Martin Rohde and Swedish Saga Norén have to share jurisdiction and work together to find the killer.
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Pure Hearts
Title: Pure Hearts
Character: Sivertsen
Released: September 8, 2006
Type: Movie
To the mentally ill Kriss, the world is divided up into 'good and evil', just like in the old B&W melodrama, 'Pure Hearts', which Kriss and his fellow patient, Willy, spend their days repeatedly watching at the psychiatric ward. To Kriss this film is the bible. One day after a serious conflict with one of the hospital's other patients their viewing rights are retracted. Kriss is deeply frustrated by this, until he realises that Linda, the young girl in the film, actually exists in the shape of the film's star, the actress Ulla Vilstrup. Setting fire to the hospital, Kriss and Willy escape into the night, determined to find her, because life is what you make of it.
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Manslaughter
Title: Manslaughter
Character: Boghandler
Released: August 26, 2005
Type: Movie
A college professor abandons his family and his career in order to champion his mistress, a student radical accused of killing a policeman.
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Stealing Rembrandt
Title: Stealing Rembrandt
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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Dancer in the Dark
Title: Dancer in the Dark
Character: Chairman / Dancer
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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The Bench
Title: The Bench
Character: Toilet Attendant
Released: August 26, 2000
Type: Movie
Kaj is a stubborn man with a great deal of pride. The former chef lives in a council flat. He has wasted his life and is now on a council job training scheme for the long-term unemployed, where he refuses to let the foreman of the activation project boss him about. When Kaj's daughter, with whom he has not been in touch for nineteen years, moves into the same council estate on the run from her violent husband, a change comes over Kaj. His initial instinct is to avoid her, but by chance he ends up helping to look after Jonas, her six-year-old son. For the first time for years Kaj need not survive on his own devices. Now he has responsibilities and a family of his own.
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The Idiots
Title: The Idiots
Character: Man in Morning-Jacket
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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Election Night
Title: Election Night
Character: Taxi Driver 2
Released: January 1, 1998
Type: Movie
On election night we meet Peter, an idealistic young man, who suddenly discovers he has forgotten to vote. On his way to the polls he encounters a variety of taxi drivers, all racist in their way and Peter has to decide whether to stand up for his convictions or getting to the polls on time. The film won an Oscar for Best Live Action Short Film.
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Wild Flowers
Title: Wild Flowers
Character: Officer 3
Released: October 5, 1997
Type: Movie
Denmark in the 70's. The teenager Christoffer's parents Nisse and Maria have decided to move into a commune because they want to try the alternative lifestyle. But Christoffer doesn't like it and has trouble adapting. In school the others tease him because he lives in a commune. As a plan from the elders in the commune he starts in a Maoist group to learn about the real ways of the society. He doesn't like it but when his new girlfriend starts to see what he does as cool he goes into it. But at the same time the police start to suspect him to be the terrorist who blows up telephone booths around Copenhagen.
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Groovy Days
Title: Groovy Days
Released: April 26, 1996
Type: Movie
Henrik is young and in love and moves with his girlfriend Anne into a commune in the countryside. It is the dawn of the 70's, a time to challenge authority and experiment with relationships. Henrik is challenged too: His role as a man is exhibited and discussed, he has to learn how to sew, to sleep in the group bedroom, to share his inheritance with the commune and his beloved Anne with a lesbian.
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Den grønne elevator
Title: Den grønne elevator
Character: Jack Wheeler
Released: January 1, 1996
Type: Movie
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The Jut-Nuts III
Title: The Jut-Nuts III
Character: Tandløs mand
Released: December 15, 1989
Type: Movie
Jacob and Finn run their low-budget private-eye business out of an auto salvage yard. Usually they are woefully incompetent, and on occasion they are inventive, like the time they find a boat captain's dentures. They're broke, so when Finn comes to the attention of a local hospital as having very healthy organs, Jacob is willing to help a corrupt doctor and his gold-digging nurse sell Finn's heart to a dying sheik in Switzerland. Finn rebels, so Jacob plots to substitute a pig's heart; then Finn gets attached to the pig and won't hear of its slaughter. As the sheik's health deteriorates and the doctor gets more desperate, Finn is in grave danger. Jacob has another plan.
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Kærlighed uden stop
Title: Kærlighed uden stop
Released: February 3, 1989
Type: Movie
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Murder in Paradise
Title: Murder in Paradise
Character: Kurt
Released: October 14, 1988
Type: Movie
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Emma's Shadow
Title: Emma's Shadow
Character: Ragner
Released: January 1, 1988
Type: Movie
Emma (Line Kruse) is an eleven year-old only child from a wealthy Danish family. Emma's parents seem more interested in their own interests than in her. One evening when Emma overhears her mother talking about how tragic it must be to have your child kidnapped, Emma decides to stage her own kidnapping. She soon meets Malthe, a kind-hearted, child-like, naïve sewer cleaner who literally stumbles on to her. She convinces Malthe that she is a Russian princess whose family is being chased by Bolsheviks, so Malthe lets Emma stay with him in his very modest abode. After being "kidnapped" for a few days, Emma decides to return home. But, just as she is about to return, she overhears a couple of servants talking about how her parents don't seem to be very upset over her dilemma....
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Murder in the Dark
Title: Murder in the Dark
Character: Kurt
Released: September 19, 1986
Type: Movie
A womanizing journalist is on the outs with the cops who want him in jail and a mysterious "thin man" who wants him dead.
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In the Middle of the Night
Title: In the Middle of the Night
Released: March 9, 1984
Type: Movie
Benny and Arnold are homeless and along with others living on Nørrebro in Copenhagen. The police is set to clear the building they squat in, but on the night of the forced eviction, local acid head Spacy jumps from the sixth floor.
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Title: Rejseholdet
Character: Portieren
Released: April 30, 1983
Type: TV
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Title: Een stor familie
Character: Fuld Mand
Released: December 11, 1982
Type: TV
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The Olsen Gang Goes to War
Title: The Olsen Gang Goes to War
Character: Town Hall Employee
Released: October 6, 1978
Type: Movie
Some criminal EU ministers plan to turn Denmark into a gigantic fair ground and holiday paradise. Egon gets his hand at some important documents which could both make him rich and take care of Denmark's future.
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Title: En by i provinsen
Character: Portieren
Released: April 9, 1977
Type: TV
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Bedside Head
Title: Bedside Head
Character: Brudgom
Released: March 3, 1972
Type: Movie
The young headmaster of a boy's boarding school has decided that due to the virility of his young charges, they are a sort of national treasure. He believes that his school should become co-educational as soon as possible. In order to raise funds for the changeover, the boys stay behind during their summer vacation and temporarily convert the school into a love hotel.
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Without a Stitch
Title: Without a Stitch
Character: Jon
Released: September 2, 1968
Type: Movie
When a high-school girl complains of her inability to reach sexual climax, her doctor suggests that she keep a diary of her sexual encounters. She does just that and soon finds herself caught up in a sexual merry-go-round that includes making a hardcore porno film in Sweden, an escapade with a German sadist and a lesbian encounter.