Holger Juul Hansen Movies

Poet Joergen Leth created this visual meditation and narrates it. ~ 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

The aged actresses in this film have had their day in the sun, and now they have settled down to a life of genteel poverty at the Actors' Home, a retirement home for theatrical has-beens, funded by a stingy and very dictatorial charity organization. The grand old gals' in this film really want to get a glass veranda put on one side of their rest home and can't spring the money from the rest home's board of directors. Nothing daunted, they take advantage of the fact that they are still big names, and they sell the rights to tell the intimate story of their current lives to a weekly magazine. Each lady vies with the others to be seen as the most important actress of the lot, but despite a lot of posturing, what they are really doing is keeping themselves interested in life. They are assisted in their endeavors by a pack of aging beaus, who gallantly do what they must to help these fine women feel appreciated. ~ Clarke Fountain, Rovi

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

Mille (Lisbeth Lundquist) is married to a rather dull man, a scientist, whose lack of ability to satisfy her sexually is accepted by both of them. In this Danish film, she has liaisons with men and women outside of her marriage, and all of them talk a lot. The happiest people among her friends are Susanne, a lesbian, and Uffe, a homosexual antique dealer. ~ Clarke Fountain, Rovi