Kirsten Olesen — Actor (11)
Movie
Time Out (1988)
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Jon Bang Carlsen
actor:
Allan Olsen
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Patricia Arquette
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Drama about a young Dane who has traveled to America to find the father he can hardly remember. In New Mexico he gets to know the daughter of a political-religious fanatic who runs a "survival school". The young Dane is interested in the girl and admits to school. Later, however, there will be a violent showdown with the fanatic. But was this man, in fact, his father?
Movie
My Granny's House (1984)
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Frode Højer Pedersen
actor:
Mikkel Egelund
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Bodil Udsen
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other title:
Min farmors hus
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My Farmors Hus
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Danish author Soya's acidly funny turn-of-the-century memoir novel turned into a robust black comedy. After his mother's death, tiny tot Søren goes to live with his wilful, rich and stingy Granny, who wants to improve his manners. She also wants to make him sole heir to her fortune, which everybody else covets. Mutual respect, even love, develops between the two. And death by poison enlivens things.
Movie
Truck-driver (1981)
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Peter Ringgaard
actor:
Otto Brandenburg
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Kirsten Olesen
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other title:
Langturschauffør
This trucker road movie tells the story of four men driving 30-ton meat-carriers in shuttle service between Denmark and Italy. Against their will, the truckers get involved in criminal activities that flourish as a result of European custom service bureaucracy. Their bonding as friends and their strongly rooted family life help them through.
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Did Somebody Laugh? (1978)
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Henning Carlsen
actor:
Kirsten Olesen
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Jesper Christensen
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other title:
Hør, var der ikke en som lo?
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Hoer, Var Der Ikke En, Som Lo?
The late 1930s. A young enemployed, unskilled worker walks through the streets of Copenhagen, sustaining himself partly on the dole and free soup-kitchen meals and partly on day-dreams. He spends time at a cemetry studying headstone inscriptions. Mild-mannered and of poetic bent, he understands little of an intellectual friend's advice and shies away from the love of a woman who shares her bed with him.
Movie
Food Club (2020)
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other title:
The Food Club
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The food club
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Three longtime girlfriends from elementary school, very different women, have one thing in common: they are in the fall of their lives and they all feel how ruthless old age can be. Marie is abandoned by her husband on Christmas Eve, and her entire identity as part of a happy family crumbles. Berling is the eternal "bachelor" who outwardly denies her age and lives the sweet life, but in the backdrop she is affected by a complicated relationship with her daughter. Vanja lives in the memories of her late husband and has difficulty moving on. The three travel to Italy together to attend a food course in Puglia, where they each have an opportunity to redefine themselves.
Movie
Rebounce (2011)
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Heidi Maria Faisst
actor:
Frederikke Dahl Hansen
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Dar Salim
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other title:
리바운스
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Frit fald
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REBOUNCE is a colorful, tough and powerful film featuring Frederikke Dahl Hansen in the leading role. She plays opposite Anne Sofie Espersen and Dar Salim, and despite being only 16 years old she portrays toughness, charm, and vulnerability admirably. REBOUNCE is an intense drama. Louise's mother is just out of prison and in the eyes of a teenager she's cool, tough and enchanting. To win her love, Louise follows her lead and enters a world of partying, drugs, fast cash and men. Meanwhile, everyone seems to forget that she is just a teenager
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Daisy Diamond (2007)
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Simon Staho
actor:
劳米·拉佩斯
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崔娜·蒂虹
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other title:
黛西之钻
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黛西之鉆
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2007 film by Simon Staho
TV
Matador (1978)
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Erik Balling
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Lise Nørgaard
actor:
Jørgen Buckhøj
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Ghita Nørby
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other title:
Die Leute von Korsbaek
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垄断
Matador is a Danish TV series produced and shown between 1978 and 1982. It is set in the fictional Danish town of Korsbæk between 1929 and 1947. It follows the lives of a range of characters from across the social spectrum, focusing specifically on the rivalry between the families of two businessmen: The banker Hans Christian Varnæs, an established local worthy, and social climber Mads Skjern, who arrives in town as the series opens. The name Matador was taken from the localised edition of the boardgame Monopoly, also the series' tentative English title. In addition, in contemporary Danish a "matador" is often used to describe a business tycoon, in the series referring to the character of Mads Skjern and his craftiness as a self-made entrepreneur.
Directed by famed Danish film maker Erik Balling, Matador was the idea of author Lise Nørgaard who wrote the bulk of the episodes alongside Karen Smith, Jens Louis Petersen and Paul Hammerich. The series is one of the most well-known and popular examples of Danish television and represents the peak of longtime development of Danish TV drama by the public service channel Danmarks Radio.
The series has become part of the modern self-understanding of Danes, partly because of its successful mix of melodrama and a distinct warm Danish humour in the depiction of characters, which were portrayed by a wide range of the most popular Danish actors at the time; but also not least because of its accurate portrayal of a turbulent Denmark from around the start of the Great Depression and through Nazi Germany's occupation of Denmark in World War II.
TV
Finding Home (2018)
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Christian E. Christiansen
actor:
Anine-Petrea Lindvig
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Ella Daisy Anthony-Collins
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other title:
Håbet
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怒海追爱
television series