Leif Sylvester

Leif Sylvester

Born: April 18, 1940
in Copenhagen, Denmark
Leif Sylvester is a Danish painter, graphic artist, musician and actor. He took his stage name Sylvester as real name, after being mistaken for the author Leif Petersen born 1934.

Movies for Leif Sylvester...

Title: Copenhagen Cowboy
Character: Arne
Released: January 5, 2023
Type: TV
After a lifetime of being sold as a human good luck charm, a woman with mysterious supernatural abilities seeks revenge against those who wronged her.
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People Get Eaten
Title: People Get Eaten
Character: Herlufs Mester
Released: February 26, 2015
Type: Movie
Herluf lives a complacent life with his wife Inger-Lise. Their daily routines are only interrupted by their daughter's marriages, the third now about to take place. But Herluf's problems are more serious than an indecisive daughter, his wife is cheating on him and he's started forgetting things at work. And one day Herluf doesn't return home.
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The Cartel
Title: The Cartel
Character: Willy Halbo
Released: February 27, 2014
Type: Movie
The successful entrepreneur Lars Halbo returns to Denmark when he inherits the family firm, but when he refuses to cooperate in illegal cartel pricing, his little company comes under heavy pressure.
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A Caretaker's Tale
Title: A Caretaker's Tale
Character: Retiree
Released: March 25, 2012
Type: Movie
A custodian in a housing project discovers that a naked, mute woman he found in one of his apartments has miraculous healing powers.
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Title: Rita
Character: Torben
Released: February 9, 2012
Type: TV
Independent, outspoken and adored by her students, private school teacher Rita fares less well with adults.
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Oldboys
Title: Oldboys
Released: December 25, 2009
Type: Movie
Now in his fifties, Vagn leads a solitary life and plays football with a group of similarly aged men, some even older. After being left behind at a petrol station by his teammates on their way to a match in Sweden, he encounters a young habitual offender and together they set off in hot pursuit of Vagn's buddies. A Nordic road movie taking in a whole series of comic, serious and, above all, well-written scenarios.
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Gambler
Title: Gambler
Character: Himself
Released: April 20, 2006
Type: Movie
A humorous documentary about Nicolas Winding Refn and his struggle to secure his family financially and help him get on with his life. Forced to file for personal bankruptcy after the failure of "Fear X" at the box office, Refn has only one chance to wipe the slate clean and continue his career as a filmmaker: produce sequels to his breakthrough movie "Pusher."
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Pusher II
Title: Pusher II
Character: Smeden
Released: December 25, 2004
Type: Movie
Tonny is released from prison - again. This time he has his mind set on changing his broken down life, but that is easier said than done.
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Restless Heart
Title: Restless Heart
Released: January 1, 1998
Type: Movie
Hugo is 18 years old, works in a garage in a provincial town, plays pool with his mates and dates teenage Betina. Hugo wants something else, but he doesn't know what - and it's hard for him to pull himself together. Until he meets student nurse Ester, who is in her 20s.
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Title: Taxa
Character: Tom Lund
Released: September 14, 1997
Type: TV
TAXA is a Danish television drama made by Danmarks Radio with 56 episodes, written by Stig Thorsboe and produced by Rumble Hammerich. The series revolves around a small taxi central, CrownTaxi, in Copenhagen. The series was a success from the start, 14 September 1997 on DR1. The series was broadcast during the period 1997-1999 for a total of five series. CrownTaxi has its ups and downs and in the course of the series, following the various drivers, radio opertor Lizzie and boss Verner Boye-Larsen. They have all their problems both with clients and family life and constantly threaten the show's villain Hermann from the competing taxi firm, City Car, which wants to take over the CrownTaxi. TAXA was also screened in Sweden on SVT1.
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En loppe kan også gø
Title: En loppe kan også gø
Character: Jørgensen, købmand
Released: October 11, 1996
Type: Movie
Rosa is a lonely 13 year old wearing a leg prosthesis. She lives with her single father in a small town.
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Carmen & Babyface
Title: Carmen & Babyface
Character: Skærsliberen
Released: January 20, 1995
Type: Movie
Set in 1962 during the Berlin crisis, the contented lifestyle of Carmen and her kid brother, whom she's nicknamed Babyface, comes to an abrupt end when their parents acrimoniously separate.
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Carl, My Childhood Symphony
Title: Carl, My Childhood Symphony
Character: Blind Anders
Released: February 4, 1994
Type: Movie
Combining the exultant sweep of epic period drama with the subtle intimacy of biography in a social perspective, this is a tale of materially impoverished childhood, struggling early manhood and an unrequited first love turned into good musical fortune for Carl Nielsen, one of the great composers of the 20th century. Based on the composer's autobiography, the film itself is designed to soar like a symphony.
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Fish Out of Water
Title: Fish Out of Water
Character: Iversen
Released: February 26, 1993
Type: Movie
The early 1990s: 300,000 Danes are out of work. Viggo, a machinist with two grown children, is silent about feelings, scared he'll lose his job, loud about the value of trade unionism, interested in his pet fish, and argumentative at dinner. His wife Oda puts up with his moods and works on family genealogy. When Viggo is laid off, he becomes a fish out of water, hardly looking for work, starting a garden, and taking up with Karen, a polished but unhappy widow. He lies to his wife about a union training and goes to Mallorca with Karen. When she stops the affair, Viggo ends up in a psychiatric ward and must figure out what's really important in his life and in his character
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Tarzan Mama Mia
Title: Tarzan Mama Mia
Character: Ludvig
Released: September 22, 1989
Type: Movie
Eleven-year old Rikke lives alone with her father, whose only interest in life seems to be the soccer matches which appear on his television. Not surprisingly, Rikke is somewhat bored. She enters a contest put on by a cereal company which has as its grand prize a horse. Since she lives in the city in a second floor apartment, it never occurred to her that she might win, but win she does. The horse ("Mama-Mia") duly appears, and she and the members of her slum neighborhood come together to cope with the situation in a delightful way.
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Hodja from Pjort
Title: Hodja from Pjort
Character: Warden
Released: October 4, 1985
Type: Movie
Inspired by tales from "Arabian Nights", with many a touch of magic, but primarily based on a book by Denmark's Ole Lund Kirkegaard, a master of the baroque stories for children, this adventurer takes the boy Hodja on a flying carpet outing. The boy wants to see the world and asks his girl-friend Emerald along. But an evil Sultan has his own designs on the carpet. Shot on Turkish locations with an extensive use of special effects.
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Rainfox
Title: Rainfox
Character: Claude
Released: December 26, 1984
Type: Movie
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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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Rocking Silver
Title: Rocking Silver
Character: Benny
Released: December 9, 1983
Type: Movie
Old rockers, like soldiers, never die, they only pass away. Well, Erik Clausen turns nostalgia into a vivid tribute to the moods and manners of the 1950s Danish Rock'n Roll by picking up a group of dispersed fellow bandsmen from wherever life and fate have left them stranded to have them revive their group and relive the good old days. A spirit of social solidarity permeates throughout.
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Otto Is a Rhino
Title: Otto Is a Rhino
Character: Toppers far
Released: March 25, 1983
Type: Movie
The boy Topper is bored. He finds a pencil that proves to have magical powers. Draw a rhino, and right away, you have a real rhino for a companion. A little heavy perhaps, when you live on the second floor. No matter, it's a modern fairy-tale of the baroque, and everything goes. Based on kiddie entertainment by Ole Lund Kirkegaard, but as was the case with the book, the fun is to be enjoyed by one and all.
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Felix
Title: Felix
Character: Dennis
Released: August 26, 1982
Type: Movie
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Title: Torvet
Character: Julemanden
Released: December 1, 1981
Type: TV
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The Circus Casablanca
Title: The Circus Casablanca
Character: Ib Sylvester
Released: February 27, 1981
Type: Movie
Film about a pair of traveling entertainers and con-men and their problems with jobs, money and women. We follow them in a period there it goes downhill with engagements. It's hard for them to realize that entertainers of their kind are about to become extinct.
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Black Pete – No, You're It
Title: Black Pete – No, You're It
Released: October 14, 1980
Type: Movie
A drama-documentary film about the fatal effect of poor living conditions on health – the so-called "social inheritance." The principal characters in the film are two fourteen or fifteen-year-old children, Carl and Hanne. Covering a hundred-year period and drawing on case stories recorded by actual hospital staff, the film illustrates a number of variations of "the same old story."
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The Revolt of the Thralls
Title: The Revolt of the Thralls
Released: October 8, 1979
Type: Movie
A three part story about the plague, religion and revolt in Northern Europe in the period 1349 to 1542.
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Me and Charly
Title: Me and Charly
Character: Gøgler
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.