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Gertrud: ‘The man I’m with must be completely mine. I must come before everything. I don’t want to be an occasional plaything.’ Writer-director Carl Theodor Dreyer’s 1964 Danish black and white classic film Gertrud is […]
The exceptional, outstanding performances from Max von Sydow and little Pelle Hvenegaard light up this 1988 Oscar- and Golden Globe-winning Best Foreign Language Film from Danish writer-director Bille August about the humble old widowed farmer […]
Writer-director Bo Widerberg’s gorgeously pretty 1967 lovers-on-the-run romance Elvira Madigan, set in 19th-century Sweden, was a huge art house cinema hit in the Sixties. Widerberg’s screenplay is based on a real-life 19th century romantic story […]
Co-writer/ director Thomas Vinterberg’s raw, incisive and involving 2016 Danish drama about an up-scale hippy commune in the Seventies focuses on the disintegration and death of a marriage in its tale of the clash between personal desires […]
Co-writer/director Lisandro Alonso’s striking, rigorous experimental pseudo-Western stars Viggo Mortensen as Gunnar Dinesen, a dad who travels with his teenage daughter from Denmark in the late 19th century to an unknown Patagonia desert that apparently ‘exists […]
The opening credits of this fanciful 1952 Samuel Goldwyn-produced vehicle for Danny Kaye say it all: ‘Once upon a time there lived in Denmark a great storyteller named Hans Christian Andersen. This is not the story […]
Director Michael Powell and co-screenwriter Emeric Pressburger’s fast-moving, scintillating 1940 World War Two spy thriller Contraband [Blackout] reunites them with the brilliant screen team of Conrad Veidt and Valerie Hobson, the stars of their previous […]
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