Ulf Pilgaard Movies

Two people are brought together by a tragic accident in this emotional drama. Joachim (Nikolaj Lie Kaas) and Cecilie (Sonja Richter) are a couple in Copenhagen who've fallen deeply in love and have made plans to marry. One day, Joachim is severely injured in an auto accident when he's struck by a woman named Marie (Paprika Steen), leaving him paralyzed from the neck down. As fate would have it, the doctor put in charge of Joachim's care is Niels (Mads Mikkelsen), who happens to be Marie's husband. Joachim, deeply depressed since the accident, tells Cecilie to leave him and find someone else, but while she intends to stay with the man she loves, she finds it increasingly difficult to deal with his mood swings and frequent anger. Meanwhile, Marie, wracked with guilt over the accident, asks her husband to look after Cecilie, and as they spend more and more time together, they find themselves becoming increasingly attracted. Eventually, Cecilie and Niels become lovers, leaving them both to deal with their betrayal of the people they've sworn to stand by. Filmed following the austere guidelines of the Dogma 95 movement, Open Hearts received its North American premier at the 2002 Toronto Film Festival and was screened in competition at the 2003 Sundance Film Festival. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi

The debut feature from Danish director Ole Bornedal, Nattevagten is a psychological thriller starring Nikolaj Coster-Waldau. While a serial killer is on the loose, brutally murdering several prostitutes, college-student Martin (Coster-Waldau) takes a job as the night watchman at the local mortuary in order to pay his law-school tuition. As it turns out, the bodies of the victims are being stored at that very mortuary. When Martin takes a bet that involves tampering with the bodies, he suddenly finds himself a suspect in the case. Bordenal, who also wrote the script, later remade Nattevagten in Hollywood under the title Nightwatch. ~ Matthew Tobey, Rovi

When Elvis Hansen (Steen Springborg), his wife Herdis (Lone Helmer), and their son Brian (Jorn Lendorph) move into a new home, a comedy of manners begins. The loud and loutish Elvis and family cause their wealthy neighbors no end of grief as social classes collide. Kirsten Rolphe plays the snooty society woman Putte who, with husband Brian (Poul Bundgaard), reacts to the invasion of their lower class neighbors. The English translation of the title is Elvis Hansen - A Pillar of Society (in Denmark, Pillar of Society is a colloquialism for beer bottle opener, which certainly applies to Elvis Hansen). ~ Dan Pavlides, Rovi

Karen (Solbjoerg Hoejfeldt) has just come out of a divorce and although she is a worldly-wise woman who knows her own mind, like most people she has been hurt in the process of legally breaking off her marriage. She meets Jens (Kurt Dreyer) a quiet, somewhat introverted man whose own divorce left him less than enthusiastic about starting up a new relationship. In spite of their wounds and the warnings of divorced friends, both Karen and Jens cannot deny the attraction they begin to feel for each other, and each fall into a pattern of gradual and increasing commitment. Appropriately enough, the musical score of the Wobbly Waltz provides melodies that lighten the drama, and enhance the mood that the witticisms and drole situations bring to the story. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, 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

Dirch Passer, one of the most beloved comedians to act in Danish films, stars in this zany crime comedy. His chief talent is to survive as a small-time operator amid a group of big-time crime sharks. One of the ways he does this is to utilize his talents at disguise, especially in drag. ~ Clarke Fountain, Rovi

A young vicar (Ulf Pilgaard) is instructed to solve pressing modern problems by his religious superior. His sincere efforts prove fruitless as he loses his followers to a traveling faith healer. He and his former divinity students break into a Copenhagen church at midnight where he gives a drunken sermon from the pulpit. The vicar uses the theatricals that were encouraged by his mentor, but now he is completely agitated and animated in his delivery and outlook on life and faith. ~ Dan Pavlides, Rovi