Dan Laustsen - Movie synopses
Dan Laustsen - Movie synopses |
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You can jump directly to each of these moviesCarmen and Babyface , Denmark is closed , Don't Peek, The Boys from St. Petri , Beyond (Dykkerne) , Elise , Goldrain , Rubber Tarzan , Have you seen Alice ? , Heaven and Hell , I am Dina , Kingfishers , Johannes’ Secret , Little Virgil and Orla Frogeater , Happiness is a strange fish , Heart of light , Mimic , My Grandmother's House , The Miracle in Valby , Nightwatch, 1994 , Nightwatch, 1998 , Otto is a Rhino , Shall we dance first? , Emma's Shadow , The thoughtless Lover .Sex hope and love2004Original title: Sex, hopp och kärlek. D.P. Director : Lisa Ohlin, script: Lisa Ohlin. Birgit (Ing-Marie Carlsson) lives an ordinary life with her ordinary husband (Lennart Jähkel) and their less ordinary teenage daughter Marie (Mira Eklund). When Birgit's old flame, the popular TV host Bertil (Krister Henriksson) suddenly returns after a 19 year absense, life changes suddenly. Farewell to the safe life! Welcome to Birgits newly awakened longing for lust, Maries's carzy hope for being noticed and Lennart's stubborn fight for love. Surprising secrets and hot memories surface and it turns out that Birgit is not the only one longing for a change. With Ing-Marie Carlsson, Lennart Jähkel, Mira Eklund, Krister Henriksson, Oliver Loftéen, Else-Marie Brandt Swedish premiere August 2005 Carmen & Babyface1995Original title: Carmen & Babyface. D.P. Director : Jon Bang Carlsen. Adrian is 13 years old. His sister has given him the pet name "Babyface". When their parents divorce, they move with their mother to a little house in the country. Everything is different from before. Carmen is old enough to chose for herself, and moves back to their father in town. For a while, everything is fine, but then the boys in the village gang up to beat up Adrian. He has to beat the bully to become accepted - and even make friends with his former opponent. But peace only lasts until a new and stronger bully challenges Adrian - and besides - there are even more problems to growing up. With Sofie Gråbøl, Rasmus Seebach, Ulla Henningsen, Waage Sandø, Leif Sylvester a.o. IMDB's complete list of cast and crew. Danmark's Closed(literal title translation) 1980Original title: Danmark er lukket. Photo assistant to D.P. Claus Loof. Director : Dan Tschernia. A futuristic comedy about Denmark being designated an atomic dump for EU, and the Danish language being forbidden. Among Danish exile resistance groups in European big cities, the popular author Orfeus Jensen is searching for his beloved Eurodik, but when he finds her, she's changed. With Christoffer Bro and Anne Linnet a.o IMDB's complete list of cast and crew. Don't Peek aka Darkness Falls2002D.P. Original working title 'Tooth Fairy' The film tells the story of a young man who is considered mad by everyone in town - except by his childhood friend and her little brother. The young man is the only one standing between legendary evil and the boy. With: Unknown Chaney Key playing the mysterious young man. Emma Caufield, known as Anya the ex-demon on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, plays the girlfriend. director: Rookie John Liebesman, who caught the attention of Hollywood with his short ‘Genesis and Catastrophe’. Script: Comic writer Joe Harris . Among other things, he's written the comics X-Force, Slingers, Bishop and the upcoming 'The Last Wolverine Story' for Marvel. 'Tooth Fairy' was his short movie, and Distant Corners asked him to develop it into a full length feature. He's also made the short Rapscallions. Misc.: Budget: 6-8 million $. Filming began in Melbourne, Australia on november 8, 2001, and it's a horror movie. IMDB's complete list of cast and crew. The Boys from Sct. Petri1991Original title : Drengene fra Sankt Petri. D.P. Director : Søren Kragh-Jacobsen. 1942, late summer. A group of high school students refuse to bow down to the German occupational forces. They start a resistance group. At first, their objective is to annoy with more or less innocent teasings, but things turn serious, and now it's their lives at stake. With Thomas Villum Jensen, Morten Buch Jørgensen, Nikolaj Lie Kaas, Xenia Lach-Nielsen, Christian Grønvall a.o. IMDB's complete list of cast and crew. Beyond2000, (*)nominated for the RobertOriginal title: Dykkerne - literal translation: The Divers. D.P. Director : Åke Sandgren. Dykkerne the official site (in Danish), with trailer, tv spot, interviews with director Åke Sandgren, visual effects-supervisor Thomas Borch Nielsen, diving director Søren Tabur and actor Robert Hansen among other things. There are 91 sunken German submarines from World War II in Danish territorial waters, and one of them is hiding a terrible secret. The two borothers Ask and Christian arrive by boat to Sejerø for their summer vacation with their grandfather. Both boys are facinated with diving, and the summer is dedicated to exciting dives from their grandfather's old boat. One day they find a German submarine, but other people are also very interested in exploring it ........ With Robert Hansen, Ralf J. Hollander, Otto Brandenburg, Baard Owe, Jesper Asholt. IMDB's complete list of cast and crew. Elise1985Original title: Elise. D.P. Director : Claus Ploug. She is loved by three men - but is faithful only to herself! Mysterious erotic story about three married couples, the doctor, the priest and the captain, set in a Danish provincial town 1928 to 1947. About their friendships and lifestyle in an apparenet atmosphere of joy and harmony. But a suden suicide destroys the pretty picture, and all threads in the drama leads back to the doctor's wife Elise and her erotic power over all three males in the group. With Ann-Mari Max Hansen, Frits Helmuth, Ole Ernst, Kirsten Olesen, Henning Jensen. IMDB's complete list of cast and crew. A Shower of Rain1988, tv series, 1986Original title: Guldregn. D.P. Director : Søren Kragh-Jacobsen. Mystery featuring four children who find a hidden cookie jar in the forest, containing 800.00 kr (about $100.000). In the hope of a finder's fee, they at first keep the money, but the criminals are on to them, and the situation becomes dangerous when one of the children is kidnapped. The film is an edited version of the tv series of the same name. IMDB's complete list of cast and crew. Rubber Tarzan1981Danish title: Gummi Tarzan. D.P. Director : Søren Kragh-Jacobsen. From Ole Lund Kirkegaard's book. Rubber Tarzan's real name is Ivan Olsen, but Ivan's dad is a huge fan of Tarzan and gives him the name when he comes home from school after having had water poured into his pants for the hundreth time. Ivan's father dreams of a strong and brave son, but Ivan has problems living up to to that. Then one day, Ivan gets an adult friend, who has an eternal maxim: "Everybody's good at something - you just have to figurer out what it is ..." With Alex Svanbjerg, Otto Brandenburg, Peter Schrøder, Susanne Heinrich, Jens Okking. IMDB's complete list of cast and crew. Have you seen Alice?(literal title translation), 1980Original title: Har du set Alice? D.P. Director Brita Wielopolska. Four teenageers run away from home. They are from very different homes, but they have in common that they don't get along with their parents. The meet at Døgnkontakten and friendships bloom. With Heidi Zahle Thomsen, Laura Kamis, Lars Top-Jensen, Carl Quist Møller, Ole Ernst. IMDB's complete list of cast and crew. Heaven and Hell(literal title translation), 1988Original title: Himmel og Helvede 2nd unit foto. Director : Morten Arnfred. Maria is a young woman who live to play the violin, trapped in her world by a father too ambitious on her behalf. Different occurnces make her break away from that world and move in with a guy she's met at a party. But with him too she is trapped in a closed world, and again she escapes. She starts playing the violin again, strengthened and free, and starts living on her own terms. With Karina Skands, Ole Lemmeke, Harriet Andersson, Lise Ringheim, Erik Mørk. Not in IMDB I Am Dina# 2002Original Title: Dinas Bog (literal title translation: Dina's book). D.P. Director : Ole Bornedal. After the book Dina's Bog by Herbjørg Wassmo. Internationale title I am Dina . Filming started March 15th on Kjerringøy outside Bodø - north of the polar circle, in she Norwegian archipelago and ended around June 22. Premiere was in Scandinavia, March 2002. The film is the most expensive movie made i Scandinavia - so far. Daughter of a merchant, Dina grows up in northern Norway in 18th century. Her life is influenced by the fact that as a child, she unintentionally caused her mother's gruesome death. But music and eroticism lures her from her isolation and into marriage. Arrogantly and ruthlessly she enjoys the pleasures of life, but in her darker moments, she flirts with death, and things go seriously wrong when her husband Jacobs seeks solace elsewhere and she meets the Russian Leo. From being a rejected and unloved child, Dina grows into an uncompromising and powerful woman. With Marie Bonnevie, Gerard Depardieu, Christopher Ecleston, Pernilla August, Bodil Udsen, and other Scandianvian actors. IMDB's complete list of cast and crew. NewsThe movie won the Air Canada People's Choice Award for the Best Feature film, and Maria Bonnevie won Prix d'interprétation féminine (best female lead) at The World Film Festival in Montreal on September 2nd, 2002. Thunderbirds *1983Original title: Isfugle - literal translation: Kingfishers. D.P. Director : Søren Kragh-Jacobsen. Drama about two young me who become friends despite being very different - the sensible and timid John and the brash "I'm the Man" René. But who influencs who? They need to be equal - otherwise they are unknowingly headed for the abyss ...... With Peter Hesse Overgaard, Michael Ehlert Falch, Mette Munk Plum, Rita Angela, Niels Møller. Dan won the Robert in 1984 for Isfugle. IMDB's complete list of cast and crew. Johannes' Secret(literal title translation) 1985Original title : Johannes' Hemmelighed. D.P. Director : Åke Sandgren. Johannes is a nine year old boy who lives with his mother. The night before his birthday, he wakes up and discovers a very bright light, coming from the bathroom. From the toilet bowl a gnome appears. It turns out to be Jesus - a very different version from the one we are used to. As Johannes is very concerned with what is right and wrong, Jesus takes him by the same untraditional route and an adventure starts where Johannes will experience the difference between good and evil. With Jakob Katz, Ina-Miriam Rosenbaum, Kirsten Olesen, Claus Strandberg, Poul Thomsen. IMDB's complete list of cast and crew. Little Virgil and Orla Frogeater(literal title translation), 1980Original title: Lille Virgil og Orla Frøsnapper. 2nd unit photo. Director : Gert Fredholm. After the book by Ole Lund Kirkegaard. About Little Virgil, his friends and enemies, about thieving apples from Madsen's garden, about being at a rowdy birthday party, and about going to the circus. And in particular about seeing arch enemy Orla Frogeater leaving town. With Bror Bødtker-Næss, Christian Honoré, Allan Olsen, Karl Stegger, Gotha Andersen. IMDB's complete list of cast and crew. Happiness is a weird fish(literal title translation), 1989Original title: Lykken er en underlig fisk. Assistant camera, 2nd unit. Director : Linda Wendel. 17 year old Mia lives with her mother and her new husband in Hanstholm. With a kind of x-ray vision she sees how the adults around her struggle with their lives and she tries to apply her observations to benefit her own life. IMDB's complete list of cast and crew. Heart of Light1997, (2000 USA)Inuit titel : Qaamarngup uummataa. Danish title : Lysets hjerte. D.P. Director : Jakob Grønlykke. Heart of light tells the story of a Greenlandic family, torn apart because of the conflict between old traditions and the modern world. Nisii, the oldest son, explodes and kills several people before killing himself. Grief and shame overwhelms his father Rasmus, the town drunkard, and he goes on a journey on the ice in an old dogsled. He meets an old hermit who takes him on a magical journey to the past. Starring Rasmus Lyberth, Vivi Nielsen, Anda Kristiansen, Knud Peterson, Kenneth Rasmussen. The movie was shown at Sundance 1999, the World Cinema section. Director Grønlykke was creative director with ad agency Saatchi & Saatchi for years, and Heart of Light is his debut. Danish television station DR has written more about the film (in Danish). The movie shows what can happen when a people is alienated from their own culture by an encroaching colonial force. The same story has happened in other aboriginal societies - a.o. Australia. IMDB's complete list of cast and crew. Mimic1997working title : Judus. D.P. Director : Guillermo del Toro. Produced by Ole Bornedal. Based on a short story by Donald A Wollheim. A horrific epidemy has New York in its grip. The carriers are some extremely poisoneous cockroaches. They breed with lightning speed and their poison kills babies. Future generations are threatened with total extinction. With genetic manipulation, a team of scientists develop the Judas species - a super cockroach that is let lose to eradicate the deadly smaller versions. The project is a succes. Everybody's happy. The epidemic is ended. The Judas species consists only of females and can't breed. But - the Judas cockroach starts to mutate, incredibly fast. It mimics its creators, the humans, and the hunter becomes the hunted ....... Wih Mira Sorvino, Jeremy Northam, Josh Brolin, F. Murray Abraham, Charles S. Dutton. IMDB's complete list of cast and crew. My Grandmother's House(literal title translation), 1984Original title : Min Farmors hus D.P. director : Frode Pedersen. After Soya's novel. About a power-hungry grandmother and her manipulative ways with her sourroundings - primarily her grandson Sørmand, for whom she is willing to commit murder. Starring Bodil Udsen, Mikkel Egelund, Søren Spanning, Kirsten Olesen, Tammi Øst. IMDB's complete list of cast and crew. Miracle in Valby *1989Original title : Miraklet i Valby. D.P. Director : Åke Sandgren. Thriller for children. Sven is a cb enthusiast, and communicates with his father who sails the seven seas. Sven's mother is in the hospital, so Sven has to take care of his little sister. One day he hears a strange chanting in Latin on his radio in the old camper where he keeeps all his equipment. In some strange fashini, the camper turns into a time time machine and brings Sven, his friend Bo and Petra (a classmate that both Sven and Bo have a crush on) back to mediaval times. Petra stays while the boys return to the present. Scen and Bo mange to return and save her, but it's a scary moment when it turns out that Sven's little sister has hidden in the camper and has gone back too - and tha's when they experience the miracle in Valby. With Jakob Katz, Troels Asmussen, Lina Englund, Amalie Ihle Ahlstrup. IMDB's complete list of cast and crew. Dan received a Robert for this film in 1990. Nightwatch1994Original title : Nattevagten, 1994. D.P. Director : Ole Bornedal. Thriller. Martin gets a job as nightwatch at the Forensic Institute and he has to walk rounds regularly, checking on the rooms where the bodies lie, awaiting their final resting place. At the same time, a number of horrific murders happen in Copenhagen, and strange and scary things start to happen at the Institute. Martin discovers that several clues point to him as the murderer. With Nikolai Coster Waldau, Sofie Gråbøl, Kim Bodnia, Lotte Andersen, Ulf Pilgaard. IMDB's complete list of cast and crew. Nightwatch1998Other international titles : Freeze - Alptraum (Tyskland), Nachtwache (Tyskland). D.P. Director : Ole Bornedal. American remake with the same director and photographer as on the origianl Danish version. With Ewan McGregor, Josh Brolin, Patricia Arquette, Nick Nolte. IMDB's complete list of cast and crew. Otto is a Rhino1983Original title : Otto er et næsehorn. D.P. Director : Rumle Hammerich. After Ole Lund Kirkegaard's novel. Topper and Viggo are best friends, but they both have problems. Topper misses his dad who has been away at sea for several years. Viggo's dad bosses him around and does not allow him to be a kid. One day, Topper finds a magic pencil. Without knowing its abilities, Topper draws a big yellow rhinoceros on the wall of his second floor apartment. The rhino comes to life, and the boys has to try to hide the big animal as pets are not allowed in the building. Complications ensue as the whole house shakes when the rhino moves. Topper and Viggo can now have several wishes fulfilled. Even though the boys are rather different, one thing unites them - a common hope of getting regular dads - so what about wishing ? With Kristjan Markersen, Erik Petersén, Axel Strøbye, Birgit Sadolin, Kirsten Rolffes. IMDB's complete list of cast and crew. Do you want to Dance first?(literal title translation), 1979Original title : Skal vi danse først? D.P. Director : Annette Olsen. Everyday drama about 16 year old Susanne and her relationship to parents and friends. To make boyfriend Peter jealous, Susanne flirts with a forty year old man from the yacht club where she works. The result is that he kinda rapes her and she becomes pregnant. But the story has a positive outcome. With Lene Gürtler, Karen Berg, Benny Dahl, Erik Wedersøe, Kirsten Rolffes. IMDB's complete list of cast and crew. Emma's Shadow *1988Original title : Skyggen af Emma. D.P. Director : Søren Kragh-Jacobsen. An emotionally neglected 12 year old upper class girl in 1930s Copenhagen, inspired by the Lindbergh kidnapping, arranges her own kidnapping. By chance, she end up among the dregs of society and makes friends with a Swedish immegrant worker. With Line Kruse, Börje Ahlstedt. IMDB's complete list of cast and crew. Dan received a Robert in 1989 for photographing the film, and the film itself won a Cannes Junior award. The Thoughtless Lover(literal title translation), 1982Original title : Den ubetænksomme elsker. D.P. Director : Claus Ploug. 38 year old doctor Jacob Holm lives in the world of normality, with a practice and a nice house, but without any spiritual conention to his wife. He gets that connection from his mistress, but when his wife discovers the relationship, she leaves him Left to himself, he becomes restless, and slowly falls to pieces. He is drawn into an absurd world, and is attracted to a young patient, the schizofrenic Sanna. She lives in a secretive house and has a dark past. As the relationship grows, Jacob becomes involved in Sanna's mysteries. Did her father kill herself? What part does the the businessman Adrian Lorck play? And is Sanna's insanity caused by a terrible experience in connection with her father's death? With Dick Kaysø, Pia Vieth, Karen-Lise Mynster, Peter Steen, Ghita Nørby, Ove Sprogøe, Solbjørg Højfeldt, Ann-Mari Max Hansen a.o. 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