Morten Arnfred Movies
- 2003
Morten Arnfred's warm comedy Lykkevej (Move Me) begins with Sara (Birthe Neumann) being left by her husband of a quarter century. Sara gets a job and moves into a new home on a street populated by eccentrics. Neighbor Robert (Jesper Lohmann) showers in his backyard, has been in mourning since his wife's death, and annoys his neighbors by keeping junk on his front yard. Sara and Robert tentatively strike up a relationship, while a couple on the street, Sus and Bo (Ditte Gråbøl and Asger Reher), have their own marriage issues to deal with. Move Me was screened at the Gothenburg Film Festival. ~ Perry Seibert, Rovi
- Starring:
- Birthe Neumann, Jesper Lohmann, (more)
- 1997
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
- Starring:
- Ernst-Hugo Järegård, Kirsten Rolffes, (more)
- 1997
This is the second in the 1997-98 series of films featuring Stockholm Inspector Martin Beck (Peter Haber), the character created by Maj Sjowall and Per Wahloo, in new stories set in present-day Stockholm. In the first part of the series, Beck went after a murdering pedophile. In this follow-up entry, Beck's romantic interlude with a female associate Lena Klingstrom (Stina Rautelin) is interrupted when Beck and his sidekick Gunvald Larsson (Mikael Persbrandt) must move quickly to solve murders happening on Stockholm subway platforms, a situation threatening to cripple transportation throughout the city. This series is comprised of eight movies -- six for television and two for theatrical distribution. ~ Bhob Stewart, Rovi
- Starring:
- Peter Haber, Mikael Persbrandt, (more)
With Breaking The Waves, director Lars von Trier fashions an often disturbing tale of the singular power of love. Bess (the Oscar-nominated Emily Watson) is a naïve, borderline simple young woman who lives in a Scottish coastal town ruled by the religious doctrine of its council of elders. Recovering from a mental breakdown caused by the death of her brother, Bess marries a rough yet compassionate and attentive oil rig worker named Jan (Stellan Skarsgård). For a brief time, the couple enjoys peaceful wedded bliss, with the worldly Jan introducing Bess to the mysteries of sex. Jan must soon return to his job on the rig, however, where he is paralyzed from the neck down in a freak accident. Bess' emotional trauma over Jan's injury turns into obsession as she prays to God for his recovery and offers to do anything to have her husband back whole. Jan, constantly medicated and profoundly depressed, asks Bess to have sex with other men and tell him about it, thinking this will allow her to return to a normal life. Bess, on the other hand, sees it as an expression of her devotion to Jan that even God won't be able to ignore. Bess's resultant downward spiral leads to a finale of both tragedy and spirituality. Breaking the Waves is widely regarded as one of the most distinctive European movies of the 1990s, marking von Trier's movement toward his influential Dogma 95 school of filmmaking, which emphasizes realistic situations of contemporary life, filmed without background music and with a hand-held, restlessly moving camera. ~ Don Kaye, Rovi
- Starring:
- Emily Watson, Stellan Skarsgård, (more)
Originally created for Danish television, Morten Arnfred and Lars von Trier's supernatural thriller The Kingdom chronicles the bizarre occurrences at the title hospital, the largest and most respected hospital in the country. While the series deals with such real-life complications as murder investigations and malpractice suits, a more villainous force may be unleashing itself upon the hospital staff. After a patient (Kirsten Rolffes) sees the ghost of a young girl, many of the staff members find themselves involved in frightening and bizarre situations like an ambulance that appears every evening but then instantly vanishes. Eventually, a female doctor (Birgitte Raaberg) becomes pregnant, but the accelerated development of her fetus could be a sign that the evil forces have found a way to enter more permanently into the world. This film consists of the first four episodes, or the entire first season, of the television series. ~ Perry Seibert, Rovi
- Starring:
- Ernst-Hugo Järegård, Kirsten Rolffes, (more)
- 1993
When two prostitutes are found to be dead in a Moscow apartment, no one makes much of the event. However, since one of them had a day job at the Danish embassy, Jack Andersen (Ole Lemmeke), an embassy official, is put onto the case. He becomes acquainted with the sister of one of the dead women, a singer; they become friendly and then romantically involved, despite her warnings that she is bad luck. ~ Clarke Fountain, Rovi
- Starring:
- Ole Lemmeke, Yelena Butenko, (more)
- 1989
Maria (Karina Skands) is an 18-year-old, late-blooming woman who has for years been a gifted violinist. She live in the slums of Copenhagen and has led a sheltered life often marked by poverty and cruelty. Due to her consuming musical passions -- fueled by the expectations of her overprotective father -- the beautiful Maria is unaware of her own attractiveness. She feels the first stirrings of love with Jonny (Ole Lemmeke), but she leaves him when he turns out to be a repressed homosexual. ~ Dan Pavlides, Rovi
- Starring:
- Karina Skands, Ole Lemmeke, (more)
- 1979
Johnny (Allan Olsen) must face the realities of adulthood in this drama with comedic overtones. He tries his hand as an unskilled laborer before facing the trials of unemployment. Johnny breaks away from the socialist ideals held dear by his family and also manages to fall in love. His career as an Army volunteer leads to trouble as he faces life and gains self respect through his experiences. ~ Dan Pavlides, Rovi
- Starring:
- Allan Olsen, Frits Helmuth, (more)
- 1978
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
- Starring:
- Kim Larsen, Allan Olsen, (more)
- 1977
In this crime drama, the first story told is that of four young delinquents whose exploits lead them on an ever-spiralling downward path, from robberies to murders. The parallel story, showing how a weary crew of policemen slowly put together the evidence needed to apprehend the delinquent foursome, is told last. ~ Clarke Fountain, Rovi
- Starring:
- Johnny Olsen, Ole Meyer, (more)
- 1977
This non-narrative film unveils three episodes in the psychosexual life of a neurotic man, beginning with a trip he took to the countryside over the holidays as a small boy, to visit a cousin. Later, he is shown as a high-school boy (Mads Ole Erhadsen). Finally, he is shown as a young man, busily engaged in the amorous pursuit of a trainee nurse. ~ Clarke Fountain, Rovi
- 1976
During a bank holdup, a teenaged boy and girl (Karl Wagner and Marianne Svendsen) are taken hostage by the robbers. After a very pleasant captivity, during which they play Monopoly with their captors, they escape into the countryside. The two consummate their first love and have a number of delightful adventures but eventually must return to their everyday lives. ~ Clarke Fountain, Rovi
- Starring:
- Ole Ernst
- 1974
This Danish film by Yugoslavian director Miladnovic explores the adventures of a Serbo-Croatian "guest worker" in Denmark. The poor man is hard-working and slow to anger, but is not unusually bright. Indeed, he is harassed and cheated not only by Danes, but by his fellow Yugoslavian guest workers. At first he is able to send some money back home, which was his object in coming to Denmark in the first place. His witlessness eventually leads to him being unemployed, living off petty thievery until he is deported back to Yugoslavia. ~ Clarke Fountain, Rovi
- 1974
Prince Piwi lives in Happyland, but in this fairy tale he gets newspapers from Humanland and thinks that the grass is greener and happiness is more genuine there. When he travels to Humanland, he becomes a pawn in a variety of profit-seeking games as he searches for true happiness. Eventually he wises up, and returns home. ~ Clarke Fountain, Rovi
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