Jens Okking Movies

Lasse Spang Olsen directs the Danish action film Old Men in New Cars aka In China They Eat Dogs II. Harold (Kim Bodnia), Peter (Tomas Villum Jensen), and Martin (Nikolaj Lie Kaas) travel to Sweden in order to help the convict Ludvig (Torkel Pettersson) escape from prison. They return to Copenhagen and proceed to rob a bank, capture hostage Mille (Iben Hjejle), and hold up an airport. ~ Andrea LeVasseur, Rovi

Morten Arnfred and Lars von Trier's second chapter in the ongoing Danish television series The Kingdom chronicles the further misadventures of the staff and patients of an ultramodern Copenhagen hospital located atop an ancient, haunted swamp. The film opens with Judith (Birgitte Raaberg) giving birth to her mutant child (Udo Kier). Dr. Stig Helmer (Ernst-Hugo Järegård) is coming under heavy scrutiny for a botched operation that left a patient brain dead, and beginning to dabble in the dark arts in order to ward off those seeking an end to his career. Hypochondriac Mrs. Drusse (Kirsten Rolffes) finally does have something bad happen to her medically when an ambulance hits her. This is supposedly the second of a planned three-part story. ~ Perry Seibert, Rovi

Something is strange about Sven's radio set. It is picking up signals in ancient classical Latin. Then the girl next door gets kidnapped by men dressed as medieval soldiers. He rounds up his friend Bo and, having figured out how to use his radio as a time machine, heads into the past in his family's mobile home. They have a lot of fun flummoxing the simple people of the Middle Ages with their modern guile, but eventually it's time to return to the present. ~ Clarke Fountain, Rovi

In this madcap comedy, Svend Aage (Jarl Friis-Mikkelsen) and Niels Peder (Ole Stephensen) team up to help a damsel in distress and an impoverished count. It seems that the count has a big farm or, in the more elegant prose befitting a nobleman, one might call it an "agricultural estate." A sleazy alliance of a chemical plant and a supermarket want to get the estate from the count for the cost of his outstanding debts. However, the count has one ace in the hole: a red cow that moos to indicate which horse to bet on in the Sunday races. Sunday is also when the count's debts come due. Svend is a footloose horse-trading type, and Niels is simply eager (usually to spend time with pretty women), but together they take on the challenge of extricating the count from his predicament. Along the way, they borrow routines from the Marx Brothers, from Monty Python, Saturday Night Live and a host of others. ~ Clarke Fountain, Rovi

In this film with a surprisingly crude treatment of humanitarian causes, the members of a former rock group decide to get together one more time to pay tribute to a dead friend and try to revive some of the magic they had 20 years earlier. When the group's venal manager attempts to use them to back up a right-wing politician, the violence begins to take a nasty turn. It is this odd juxtaposition of coarse action or violence with other slapstick scenes that drive the film in two opposite directions. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, Rovi

Four truck drivers are followed along their trips through Europe in this fictional adaptation of the very real dangers and challenges in their job. Whereas in the U.S. the dangers seem to lie in staying awake over extended periods in order to make a buck, in Europe the threat comes from the more criminal elements in society. Truckers are paid off to turn a blind eye while the Mafia dips into their cargo, and this film portrays the Mafia as attempting to take over the meat in the trucks. While the drivers have this unhealthy problem to deal with, they also are living their own lives as they run into various women along their routes and try to climb in the cab as sober as they can get after indulging a little bit too much at the last stop. The four drivers in the film (Otto Brandenburg, Jens Okking, Joern Faurschou, and Claus Strandberg) are played with humanity, and, in some instances, restrained pathos, as they face the challenges in their journeys. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, Rovi

After marrying his lovely librarian girlfriend Kirsten (Kirsten Olesen), Jens (Claus Strandberg) and she enjoy a brief, idyllic honeymoon, but soon she drifts into a deep depression and attempts suicide. She moves back into her parents' house and lurks there out of sight. Jens, a good-natured, shy and steady fellow, is bewildered at this turn of events and cannot make head nor tail of it. At least he has a friend he can turn to for some solace, Bjarne (Jens Okking), his older coworker. They go drinking together sometimes and he tries to figure this situation out. It finally comes to him that perhaps she cannot bear the fact of marriage itself, and he offers his dear Kirsten her freedom. ~ Clarke Fountain, Rovi

Steffen is a good kid, a teenager who has recently finished school and is looking for work. He lives with his widowed mother, a newspaper reporter. Very little throws him off his stride, whether it is his girlfriend's jealousy of his friendship with Charly, a reform-school boy, or his mother's drunken, playful amorousness one night, because he reminds her of his father. ~ Clarke Fountain, Rovi

In this zany spy comedy, Ulf Pilgaard plays a professor who has somehow gotten a crucial NATO map tattooed on his back by a group of Russian spies. Now everyone wants to get their hands on him. ~ Clarke Fountain, Rovi

A young architect (Henning Jensen) loses his girlfriend in a hit-and-run accident and turns serial killer to avenge her death. But instead of punishing the four drunken revellers who caused the accident, he hunts down a particular loved one of each of them, inflicting the same sort of agony, torment, and loss he himself experienced. This often too talkative but extremely successful thriller -- based on a novel by Danish crime writer Torben Nielsen -- was uncomfortably close to American novelist Cornell Woolrich's classic The Bride Wore Black, filmed, memorably, in 1967 by François Truffaut and starring Jeanne Moreau. Still, Nitten Røde Roser became the biggest Danish box-office winner of its day. ~ Hans J. Wollstein, Rovi