Esben Hoilund Carlsen Movies
- 1998
Robert Mitchum's is seen in one of his last performances in this Norwegian drama about four lifelong friends. After Carl (Espen Skjonberg) collapses in an Oslo street, he awakens in the hospital to the grins of his buddies Ernest (Mitchum), Ted (Cliff Robertson), and August (Erland Josephson). The dying Carl's last wish is to hear opera sung by the sister of a dead friend. The four head for Heidelberg where they all went to 1937 medical school. As they seek the singer, revelations surface from the pre-WWI Nazi era, including a plot none knew about 60 years ago. ~ Bhob Stewart, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Robert Mitchum, Cliff Robertson, (more)
This medieval period drama from Norway is based on Scandinavian-author Sigrid Undset's classic novel. The story is set in Norway's Gudbrandsdal valley during the 14th century. The tale begins when Kristin is 7-years-old and living a peaceful, relatively happy life with her family. It has not always been so happy though, as her parents have already buried three sons and nearly lost Kristin's little sister in a logging accident. Though still quite young, Kristin has been betrothed to marry Simon Darre, a wealthy neighbor's son. Unfortunately, the young girl already prefers the company of Arne to Simon. Time passes and Kristin suffers an attempted rape in the forest. She is confused by the act and asks her family to send her to a convent. Later the young woman sees a handsome knight, Erlend Nikulausson, and falls head-over-heels. Unfortunately, Erlend has more pressing romantic problems trying to deal with his previous lover. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
- 1994
A quiet young man learns about adult behavior in this sensitive Norwegian film. LP is an only child of a middle-class Norwegian couple. He steals a sailboat to celebrate his graduation from junior-high school. Unfortunately he doesn't know how to sail. He is saved from crashing by pretty 20-year old Line who comes aboard. Together they spend a few days of innocent skinny-dipping. Their adventure is interrupted when LP's dad finds them and board the ship. Father and son gain new perspectives about each other and their relationships as they sail with the beautiful girl. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Hakon Bolstad, Nils Ole Oftebro, (more)
- 1980
The major question in this routine drama about a love (or loveless?) triangle is "when is a choice between two lives not a choice at all?" Lene (Lotte Tarp) has been leading a crushingly humdrum existence as a mother and a wife. Her husband Steen (Peter Schroeder) has the standard male shortcomings and after several years of marriage, Lene has no wellspring inside, no zest for living. So when she meets Michael (George Bamford) from New York, she is attracted to him mainly by default. But her relationship with Michael is enough to make her question her marriage -- and maybe that was all she really needed. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Lotte Tarp, Peter Schröder, (more)
- 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, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Dick Kaysoe, Peter Steen, (more)
- 1974
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, All Movie Guide
