Dick Kaysoe Movies
A man is torn between love, family, and a responsibility he does not want in this drama. Christoffer (Ulrich Thomsen) used to work for his family's steel company, but when the stress of the job began taking a serious toll on his health, he left the firm and now happily runs a restaurant in Stockholm and is married to Maria (Lisa Werlinder), a lovely and promising stage actress. At the urging of his father, Christoffer flies to Denmark for a family visit, only to discover upon arrival that his dad has just killed himself. Christoffer quickly discovers why: the steel business is on the verge of collapse and his mother (Ghita Nørby) urges him to take over rather than let his brother-in-law Ulrik (Lars Brygmann) assume control. Christoffer reluctantly agrees, but before long, his decision begins to drive a wedge between himself and Maria, while his difficulty in reviving the failing business forces him to deal honestly with his employees in a manner he's not accustomed to, as well as dealing with the uncomfortable points of corporate power. Arven (aka The Inheritance) is the second part of a trilogy by director Per Fly on the three primary social classes, following his 2000 debut Bænken. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi
- Starring:
- Ulrich Thomsen, Lisa Werlinder, (more)
- 1992
Young Krumme and his boisterous family have moved into a new home, an older place with many unexplored booms and corners. While investigating the basement, he discovers some money put there by some bank robbers, who mean to get it out any way they can. However, the robbers soon prove they are no match for the young man and his very active family. ~ Clarke Fountain, Rovi
- Starring:
- Dick Kaysoe, Karen-Lise Mynster, (more)
- 1990
In this frenetic detective comedy, punctuated with many explosions and car chases ending in crashes, a detective who lacks the sense to come in out of the rain persistently tracks a gang of heroin smugglers in the almost futile hope of ending their activities and bringing them to justice. ~ Clarke Fountain, Rovi
- Starring:
- Dick Kaysoe, Ole Ernst, (more)
- 1990
Donna (Birgitte Simonsen) has boyfriends, but she loves Britt (Hanne Windfeld Lund). Britt loves Donna back, but she's going to get married to a man who's probably not good husband material (Ole Lemmkeke). The two of them try to make sense of their lives and loves, but ultimately they are only sure that they care about each other. It turns out that some of their men care about each other, too. ~ Clarke Fountain, Rovi
- Starring:
- Ole Lemmeke
- 1989
Maria (Anne Herdorf), Dan (Jorn Lendorph), Tine (Christine Skou) and Henrik (Jeppe Kaas) are four youngsters who are on the verge of having to leave school and enter into the world. In the meantime, they make the best use they can of this idyll. All of them are children of student radicals from the 1960's. However, Maria and Dan's parents still try to be true to the values of that period, whereas Tine and Henrik's parents have turned their backs on that idealism completely, to the point of being willing to commit murder in return for improved social status. Maria is fooling around with drugs, and Dan is fooling around with Maria. Their relative innocence does not protect them, and things with them take a tragic turn. This film is based on a book by Bo Green Jensen. ~ Clarke Fountain, Rovi
- Starring:
- Jorn Lendorph
- 1989
Bai (Le Ernst) is the stationmaster in a small whistle-stop town who must contend with the suffering of his dying wife Katrinka (Tammi Ost) in this depressing romantic drama. She knows her husband loves her but she has fantasies about Huus (Kurt Ravn), the shy estate manager who has suffered his own losses in love. This is the directorial debut for veteran actor Max von Sydow. ~ Dan Pavlides, Rovi
- 1985
Ole Ernst plays Peter von Scholten in this historical film biography. Appointed by King Frederick VI (Henning Moritzen) as governor of the Virgin Islands, Peter fights for the education and liberation of the island's black residents, former slaves, while keeping a black mistress on the islands and a wife at home in Denmark. Peter establishes schools for the children and avoids a bloody insurgence from locals bent on violent overthrow of the government. The former governor is charged with treason and dies a dejected man soon after the unfair charges are overturned. ~ Dan Pavlides, Rovi
- Starring:
- Ole Ernst, Jesper Langberg, (more)
- 1984
The friendship between two very different men is explored in this psychological drama about John and René (Michael Ehlert Falch), the latter being a tormented loner haunted by the certainty that his wealthy father is responsible for the death of his mother. René has turned to drink and anti-social behavior to assuage his demons. John (Peter Hesse Overgaard) is one of the main operators of a local power plant who likes to listen to classical music and takes care of wounded or sick birds when he is not working. Just as the two men are learning to appreciate the good (and different) qualities in each other, a woman appears on the scene and John is drawn to her -- but not enough to end his relationship with René and avoid the inevitable disaster that seems to lie ahead if his friend does not change his ways. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, Rovi
- Starring:
- Peter Hesse Overgaard, Michael Falch, (more)
- 1982
This dramatic presentation features a black mugger and a white housewife as they talk about economic theories and civil rights. ~ Rovi
- Starring:
- Dick Kaysoe, Lise Ringheim, (more)
- 1982
When a doctor sets up his practice in a new town he is drawn to the case of a mentally disturbed daughter living with her mother in a mansion on a hillside above the town, a daughter who believes she has murdered her father, even though the father was said to have committed suicide. As the doctor works with his patient, he finds that a wealthy, powerful local man and the town's police are trying to keep him away from the issue of the father's death. Did the rich town magnate actually murder the father? Did the mother? Why is the daughter convinced that she killed her father? These questions get a little buried in the imagery that crawls to the finish line, evoking poetic symbols but skillfully evading the dramatic proposals raised at the beginning of the story. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, Rovi
- Starring:
- Dick Kaysoe, Pia Vieth, (more)
- 1980
The biggest mystery in this confusing psychological mystery story is its meaning. The drama opens in a hospital where a young man is coming out of sleep -- or out of a dream? Before he comes to, it is clear he has had a luminous sexual encounter with an unknown woman named Jessica. Then he and his friends take off for some leisure time in a seaside house while they puzzle out his "Jessica" story. In the meantime, some nasty villagers get into the act, and disconnected events continue to unfold until the man sets off to explore an old fortress and makes a shocking discovery, which unfortunately does not help to clarify this tale. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, Rovi
- Starring:
- Kurt Ravn
- 1976
This film follows a good-natured young clerk through the back-alleys and darkest slums of Copenhagen as he grows increasingly involved with the criminal and drug underground. Though he attempts to keep some integrity in an environment which does not value it, he becomes embroiled in a situation involving prison escapes, drug-smuggling, car-chases and shoot-outs. ~ Clarke Fountain, Rovi
- Starring:
- Dick Kaysoe, Peter Steen, (more)
- 1976
Based on a stage play by popular Danish pulp writer Morten Korch, Affæren i Mølleby harked back to the bucolic days of good-hearted but poor gentlefolks, nasty poachers, and even nastier industrialists, a black or white universe with no space for grey areas. The heroes this time are a poetry-writing civil servant (Ove Sprogøe) and a folksy mayor (Korch regular Paul Reichardt) who join forces to defeat the encroaching modern age, here personified by a mining conglomerate. The ensemble cast played the hoary old plot almost completely straight this time and the film became a hit for 70-year-old Nordisk Film. ~ Hans J. Wollstein, Rovi
- Starring:
- Ove Sprogøe, Dick Kaysoe, (more)
- 1976
In this police thriller, a policeman returning to work after a nervous breakdown is asked to give perfunctory treatment to a case involving his ex-wife and her new lover, a petty criminal. This kibosh has been laid on by his higher-ups at the urging of a group of important businessmen. However, the policeman persistently investigates and nearly blows the lid off of a really big swindling operation. ~ Clarke Fountain, Rovi
- Starring:
- Jens Okking, Dick Kaysoe, (more)
