Arthur Jensen
Arthur Jensen was originally trained as a tailor and later educated at the Royal Theatre's student school 1920-23 and had an extensive theatre career. He experienced his heyday on television after passing the age of 70. He never achieved the same heights in film as he did in television, with roles such as caretaker Meyer in Huset på Christianshavn (1970-77) and clerk Schwan from Damernes Magasin in Matador (1978-81). With the exception of when he reprised the character of caretaker Meyer in Erik Balling's film version of the TV series, Ballade på Christianshavn (1971). It was his best film performance. He portrayed the two TV series characters shamelessly on his distinctive type: the comically aunty as caretaker Meyer and the sly and vain as clerk Schwan. What could have ended up as a gay caricature becomes human portraits in the garb of folk comedy, not least thanks to Arthur Jensen's humor, which at once shows solidarity and irony with the characters.
It took a long time for Arthur Jensen to discovery who he was as an actor. After four silent film supporting roles at Fy&Bi, he formed a comedic duo with Ib Schønberg in several of Alice O'Fredericks' and Lau Lauritzen's energetic prank farces in the 1930s, but the fun is sporadic, and the inventions are often self-satisfied and infantile. His recurring role as a whiny spanking boy for the healthy guys in these films, including director Lauritzen himself, are particularly unfunny and almost unpleasant.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 0.6036 |
| Birthday | 1897-11-09 |
| Place of Birth | Copenhagen, Denmark |
| Also Known As | Артур Йенсен, |
1977
Agent 69 in the Sign of Scorpio
6.3/20
Clumsy secret agent Jensen (aka Agent 69) must deliver secret formula for new revolutionary fuel source to Western agents. Instead, he mistakenly give...
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Agent 69 in the Sign of Scorpio
1977
The Goldcabbage Family Gets the Vote
5.167/6
The final film in the Gyldenkål trilogy. Following a financial downturn, Charles Gyldenkål decides to run for municipal office. After an unconventiona...
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The Goldcabbage Family Gets the Vote
1966
Old Maids
9.5/2
Bettina Eriksen, manager of her Uncle Teodor's nursing home, is being framed for murder. With the help of 2 older ladies, Bettina sets out to find out...
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Old Maids
1977
Girls at Sea
5.611/9
Women have joined the military in Denmark but may still not serve in the navy. This makes the lives of the sailors difficult when three women get trap...
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Girls at Sea
1972
The Olsen Gang's Big Score
6.784/58
After his usual stay behind bars, Egon has another cunning plan involving millions. They rob over 4 million from a money transport. The gang keeps a l...
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The Olsen Gang's Big Score
1969
Ta' lidt solskin
5.8/5
A folk comedy for the whole family. The two carefree farm musicians, Poul Otto Madsen and Bernhard Iversen, along with the dog Hannibal, move into the...
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Ta' lidt solskin
1964
Don Olsen kommer til byen
6.773/11
Bank director L.W. Jacobsen resides in a small provincial town. He is not particularly interested in his wife, Elsebeth, but rather in teacher and cit...
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Don Olsen kommer til byen
1967
Nyhavns glade gutter
5.5/7
The con artist Prince Fingernem is a regular customer of the waitresses Mona Lisa and young Vicky at the Trinidad tavern – a small, damp paradise in N...
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Nyhavns glade gutter
1965
Een pige og 39 sømænd
6.333/9
This festive comedy has a theme song that was incredibly popular in its day – but which is missing a verse! The penultimate verse ends as follows: ".....
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Een pige og 39 sømænd
1964
Five men and Rosa
5.8/5
In a hospital's five-bed room—room number 13—there are five very different men with very different backgrounds: District Court Judge Winther, fashion...
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Five men and Rosa
1971
Our Home Is Our Castle
6.75/8
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...
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Our Home Is Our Castle
1953
Den gamle mølle paa Mols
8/5
A young, beautiful girl arrives at Krogerød Kro on Mols and shocks the innkeeper by telling him that he is her father. At the same time, the inn is ab...
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Den gamle mølle paa Mols
1940
Familien Olsen
6.25/4
In a large fish export company, the general manager's talented son Hugo holds a trusted position. When one day 500 kroner is missing from the cash reg...
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Familien Olsen
1978
Holidays in jail
5.85/10
Four young men, Henry, Toft, Tam, and Klausen, take the train to Maribo, ending up at the prison gates. All four are serving sentences for drunk drivi...
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Holidays in jail
1973
Fætrene på Torndal
4.786/7
Werner (William Rosenberg) is an inspector for group of farmes called Digeskov. Left alone by Digeskovs owner, Werner is tricking small neighboring fa...
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Fætrene på Torndal
1975
The Son from Vingaarden
4.8/10
The vineyard is facing demolition. It has been 30 years since Uncle Olsen died, and after 30 years, the farm must be sold if no one in the Martin fami...
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The Son from Vingaarden
1981
Jeppe på Bjerget
6.429/7
Jeppe is a bedraggled day laborer whose great vice is brandy. And when he falls down drunk in the field, a passing baron is tempted to play a prank on...
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Jeppe på Bjerget
1962
Venus fra Vestø
6.214/7
Vestø island's isolated community's prize cow is in danger of being abducted by German WWII occupation forces.
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Venus fra Vestø
1956
Kristiane af Marstal
6.438/8
Two young skippers, Hans Tønnesen and Poul Nielsen, have a small cargo ship that transports freight from Copenhagen to the provinces. Poul and Hans ar...
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Kristiane af Marstal
1966
Dyden går amok
4.833/6
Hidden among the dunes on the west coast of Jutland lies HU, where fishermen struggle to earn a living. The hard and dangerous work combines HU's smal...
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Dyden går amok
1968
Stormvarsel
5.4/5
The young fisherman Kurt Vinderup returns home to the small fishing village of his childhood after completing his military service in the Royal Danish...
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Stormvarsel
1965
Jensen længe leve!
7.667/3
A prisoner who has just escaped from prison finds the body of Jensens, a marshal, in Jensens' shop. Fearing that he will be suspected of murder, he mo...
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Jensen længe leve!
1936
Panserbasse
6.5/5
An American gangster nicknamed "English Joe" has fled across the Mexican border with his gang, consisting of four men in addition to himself. The Amer...
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Panserbasse
1937
Flaadens blaa matroser
5.667/3
A marine musical comedy from Denmark. The radio operator, Hjalmar Olsen, lives in Nyboder. He handles all the problems for the Nyboder friends when th...
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Flaadens blaa matroser
1937
Incognito
7.667/3
The wealthy Olaf Brammer is the real owner of a nationwide company that trades in household goods. But he has no say, as the authoritative general man...
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Incognito
1929
The Mannequins
7/2
Pat and Patachon live in the attic of an old house along with a number of other curious kinds of people. One of the residents is a fortune teller, who...
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The Mannequins
1965
Erik Soya's 17
5/8
In the summer of 1913, 17-year-old Jacob, a Danish high school student, lives in the frustrating limbo between boyhood and manhood. He worries about h...
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Erik Soya's 17
1975
Come to My Bedside
4.818/11
A handsome young sunlamp salesman's amorous endeavors with his wife become too inventive for her, and she leaves him to return to her mother's house....
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Come to My Bedside
1974
Nøddebo præstegård
6/8
Adaptation of the classic Danish Christmas story about Nikolaj, a student, and his two older brothers, who are spending their vacation with the kind p...
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Nøddebo præstegård
1970
The Song of the Red Ruby
5.6/5
A young, idealistic business student has ambitions to be a concert pianist, but his obsession with beautiful women keeps him from achieving his goal....
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The Song of the Red Ruby
1969
Ladies Man
7/3
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 w...
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Ladies Man
1954
I kongens klæ'r
6.643/7
Kjeld Petersen plays a merchant who has stolen his clothes when he is out take a dip in the Sound. He stopped by the police, and they find a call to m...
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I kongens klæ'r
1936
Snushanerne
6/3
The strict customs regulations have brought about a special type of lawbreaker - smugglers! They abound in all countries, and even in our relatively p...
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Snushanerne
1934
Ud i den kolde sne
7.333/3
Taxi driver Peter Basse is a jovial and cheerful man who faithfully looks after his daughter at the wheel and steers his carriage through the streets...
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Ud i den kolde sne
1938
Under byens tage
7.5/4
Under the city's roofs, life goes on in a motley manner. It alternates with tears and smiles, with happiness and sadness. In the artist restaurant "Mo...
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Under byens tage
1963
Hvad med os?
7/4
Martin has just returned home from Africa and meets Lis at an anti-nuclear demonstration. They begin a relationship, but it is disrupted by his memori...
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Hvad med os?
1962
Crazy Paradise
4.222/9
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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Crazy Paradise
1967
Me and My Kid Brother
5.429/7
The entire population of Bomø has gathered for the big day. Finally, after 56 years, the bridge connecting Bomø to the mainland has been completed. Wi...
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Me and My Kid Brother
1954
Et eventyr om tre
7/3
There are three young people, Bella, the lonely office lady, Kjeld, the brooding student, and Poul, the youngest man in the company, who are all bulli...
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Et eventyr om tre
1976
In the Sign of the Lion
6.893/14
Elderly sisters write a tell-all erotic memoir that threatens to undermine a nasty nobleman.
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In the Sign of the Lion
1978
Agent 69 Jensen in the Sign of Sagittarius
6.211/19
Secret Albanian rocket plans worth 10 million have been stolen - and Albanian, Chinese, Russian and Danish agents vie to recover them.
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Agent 69 Jensen in the Sign of Sagittarius
1976
The Moelleby affair
8.667/3
Mølleby is a small, cozy market town. The year is 1924, and the sight of a Rolls Royce from Copenhagen is a sensation. But all is not as idyllic as it...
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The Moelleby affair
1934
Barken Margrethe
7.25/4
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Barken Margrethe
1975
In the Sign of the Gemini
5.308/13
It's 1930 and two record producers are competing to sign a big contract with the leading singer of the day. One kidnaps the other, thinking it's in th...
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In the Sign of the Gemini
1963
Bussen
6.111/9
The protagonist is a jovial bus driver, well beloved by his passengers, essentially the whole community around him. The bus, however, is old, and need...
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Bussen
1933
It Happened in Copenhagen
7/3
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It Happened in Copenhagen
1968
The Olsen Gang
7.042/60
The first of 14 Olsen Gang films presents us with Egon Olsen, head of the gang, and his friends Benny and Kjeld, who want to become the best known gan...
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The Olsen Gang
1972
The Man from Swan Farm
7.125/4
A folk comedy set in a village on the island of Zealand, where a powerful and dishonest businessman tries to trick the traditional owner out of his fa...
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The Man from Swan Farm
1973
The Olsen Gang Runs Amok
6.864/55
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...
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The Olsen Gang Runs Amok
1979
The Olsen Gang Never Surrenders
6.796/49
Egon plans to exploit knowledge gained during his latest term of incarceration. By stealing the unmanipulated financial records of DanInvest he obtain...
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The Olsen Gang Never Surrenders
1977
The Olsen Gang Outta Sight
7.096/47
Egon is starting to be a little forgetful; he forgot the zone number, so he fails to open the strongbox. When he gets out of Vridslose State Prison, K...
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The Olsen Gang Outta Sight
1963
The Girl and the Press Photographer
6.7/10
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...
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The Girl and the Press Photographer
1965
Strike First Freddy
5.944/18
Frede Hansen, a game salesman, is mistaken for a secret service agent on a ferry and kidnapped by enemy agents. He escapes and now the secret service...
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Strike First Freddy
1963
Vi har det jo dejligt
6/5
This comedy is based on Finn Søeborg's text. It is a film full of warmth and joie de vivre, set in "Ravnekrogen", where our friends have built their o...
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Vi har det jo dejligt
1977
Vandalism
5.75/6
Based upon the novel "Hærværk" by Tom Kristensen about the self destructive person.
The literary reviewer Ole Jastrau chooses to free himself from hi...
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Vandalism
1956
Den kloge mand
7.4/5
In the small idyllic town Randrup, lives on nature-loving and friendly thatcher Rasmus Thomsen (Oswald Helmuth). In addition to refurbish people's roo...
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Den kloge mand
1966
Flagermusen
6.667/3
Doctor Falke takes revenge on Gabriel von Eisenstein because, after a carnival, he left him lying in a park, disguised as a bat, so that he would be r...
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Flagermusen
1976
Jumpin' at the Bedside
5.25/12
The head of a big engineering firm is a workaholic who neglects his pretty young wife - leading to her joining an "escort" service as a means of sexua...
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Jumpin' at the Bedside
1970
Bedroom Mazurka
4.824/17
Max (Søltoft) is a popular teacher at a public school who needs a new schoolmaster. In an effort to entice him to take the vacated position, the boys...
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Bedroom Mazurka
1980
Little Virgil and Freddy Frogface
7.75/8
Little Virgil lives in a henhouse with his best friend Oscar, a one-legged rooster. Virgil's worst enemy is Orla, the local bully-boy. When a circus c...
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Little Virgil and Freddy Frogface
1999
Mifune
7.014/72
Kresten, newly wed, is on the threshold of a great career success in his father-in-law’s company. But when the death of his own father takes him back...
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Mifune
1972
Bedside Highway
4.9/10
In this Danish sex comedy, precisely opposite goals lead a young official of the Department of Roads and Traffic and all the women of the local villag...
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Bedside Highway
1964
Mord for åbent tæppe
6.5/4
The action takes place in a theater, where actor and theater director Poul Bech is shot by his co-star Eva Berthelsen in the middle of a premiere. The...
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Mord for åbent tæppe
1973
Bedside Romance
4.455/11
A girl inherits a string of industrial concerns that will become bankrupt by the inheritance tax unless the girl marries the son of the owner of a com...
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Bedside Romance
1966
The Loose Tile
6/5
Sigfred dioecious is an acidic man. Teacher and can not really hate children. When he one day a tile in the head, change his behavior, however, signif...
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The Loose Tile
1971
Bedside Dentist
4.955/11
Thomas, a naive young dental student, faces a rather difficult challenge. His millionaire aunt, a bit of a sex nut, will give both him and his dental...
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Bedside Dentist
1976
Bedside Sailors
5/9
In this Danish sex comedy, a young woman pretends to be a man in order to win a job as machinist's mate on a freighter. When she is discovered, they a...
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Bedside Sailors
1935
Kidnapped
7/3
Anno 1826. Grethi Birger is 17 years old and is now all alone in the world. Her mother is dead, and she has never known her father. Grethi are now loo...
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Kidnapped
1932
Tretten Aar
6.667/3
Poul Løwe is young, charming and rich - and his secretary Gretel is the same, except for the rich - and none of them are mutual blind to each other's...
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Tretten Aar
1933
Fem raske piger
6.333/3
The orphaned sisters Annie, Karin, Grace, Irene and Maud return home to Denmark, where they make a living from their musical talents. After some time...
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Fem raske piger
1932
He, She and Hamlet
6.667/3
Fyrtårnet and Bivognen are gardeners at a residence for young women. Here they are friends with budding actress Eva, but when the three reveal one eve...
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He, She and Hamlet
1936
Giftes - nej tak!
7.667/3
Under the pseudonym Ulla Ironica, the author Ulla Hempel has gained great fame, and at the same time much indignation, because she writes with ruthles...
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Giftes - nej tak!
1934
København, Kalundborg og -?
6.333/3
Ludvig Brandstrup is a radio announcer and performs with great experience in front of the microphone. But the director is not exactly taking care of h...
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København, Kalundborg og -?
1959
Boy of Two Worlds
5.778/9
A young orphan is sent to live in a Danish village where he is cast out because his mother was a West Indian. With nowhere to turn, the ingenious surv...
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Boy of Two Worlds
1953
The Tove Andersen Criminal Case
8/3
Tove Andersen's problem ends in Christianshavn's moat, and this is where the film begins. The body has a noose around its neck. The homicide division...
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The Tove Andersen Criminal Case
1953
Min søn Peter
7.333/3
Once upon a time, there was a family consisting of the artist Michael, his wife Lydia, and their son Peter. But the couple divorced, and Lydia, who la...
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Min søn Peter
1967
Pretty-Arne and Rosa
5.917/6
Denmark, 1967. In the midst of a cultural renaissance, all cultured people want to support Danish cinema, especially when it receives funding from the...
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Pretty-Arne and Rosa
1969
En nat i Venedig
0/0
The Duke arrives in Venice. Senator Delacqua fears being cuckolded, so he sends his wife away. When he finds out that the Duke wants to hire a court a...
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En nat i Venedig
1948
Kristinus Bergman
7.333/3
Danish noir crime drama with a poetic nerve. Two boys, Kristinus and Jakob (Rode and Neergaard) experienced a loveless and abusive childhood. Now as g...
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Kristinus Bergman
1966
Utro
5.25/4
She loves to ride in the bus and read smart book ... He likes to sit by the water and drink soda ... She loves to write down their thoughts on the fly...
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Utro
1954
Vores lille by
7/3
Our small town is a fairly ordinary collection of houses in a random location in Denmark, inhabited by fairly ordinary people. Nothing of significance...
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Vores lille by
1961
To skøre ho'der
8/4
Two tough guys, Paul and Preben, are in the same hospital, both admitted for stomach ulcers. Paul because he's sick of his aunt Klara and his cute fia...
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To skøre ho'der
1935
Week-end
7/2
It may appear to be smooth sailing, but the atmosphere behind the scenes at Poul and Jørgen's racing team is tense: the big race is just around the co...
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Week-end
1945
Stop Tyven!
7/1
Humorous short film about burglary prevention and robbery. A journalist and a press photographer come in possession of a couple of magical gallows who...
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Stop Tyven!
1937
Danmark for Folket
6.5/2
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Danmark for Folket
1960
Champagnegaloppen
0/0
Amelie is in love with a young musician. But since her parents believe she should marry someone of her own social standing, nothing immediately comes...
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Champagnegaloppen
1976
Superfos Glasuld – et isoleret tilfælde
6/1
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Superfos Glasuld – et isoleret tilfælde
1961
Een blandt mange
9/1
17-year-old Bo's parents are divorced, and he lives with his mother in Aalborg. He travels to Copenhagen to visit his father. At his architect's studi...
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Een blandt mange
1935
Bag Københavns Kulisser
10/1
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1970
A Day at the Beach
4.824/17
Bernie is a silver tongued wanderer with a fondness for drink and no clear goal in life. What was supposed to be a day of fun at the seaside turns to...
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