Elin Reimer Movies
- 1992
Based on the 1932 novel Mendel Philipsen and Son by Henri Nathansen, Sofie was adapted for the screen by celebrated actress Liv Ullmann, making her directorial debut. Beginning in Copenhagen during the late 1880s, Sofie (Karen-Lise Mynster) is a devoted Jewish daughter who falls in love with the Gentile painter Hojby (Jesper Christensen). Her parents, Semmy (Erland Josephson) and Frederikke (Ghita Nørby), don't approve of the relationship, so they encourage her to marry her mentally ill cousin, a Swedish shopkeeper named Jonas (Torben Zeller). She gives birth to a son, but their already loveless marriage becomes further complicated when Sofie develops an interest in her brother-in-law Gottleib (Stig Hoffmeyer). Jonas is inconsolable after the death of his mother (Kirsten Rolffes), so much so that Sofie has him institutionalized and takes over his business. Years later, Sofie returns to Copenhagen with her son to help her aging parents and attend an auction where she reunites with Hojby. ~ Andrea LeVasseur, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Karen-Lise Mynster, Erland Josephson, (more)
- 1992
Young Krumme and his boisterous family have moved into a new home, an older place with many unexplored booms and corners. While investigating the basement, he discovers some money put there by some bank robbers, who mean to get it out any way they can. However, the robbers soon prove they are no match for the young man and his very active family. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Dick Kaysoe, Karen-Lise Mynster, (more)
- 1989
Maria (Anne Herdorf), Dan (Jorn Lendorph), Tine (Christine Skou) and Henrik (Jeppe Kaas) are four youngsters who are on the verge of having to leave school and enter into the world. In the meantime, they make the best use they can of this idyll. All of them are children of student radicals from the 1960's. However, Maria and Dan's parents still try to be true to the values of that period, whereas Tine and Henrik's parents have turned their backs on that idealism completely, to the point of being willing to commit murder in return for improved social status. Maria is fooling around with drugs, and Dan is fooling around with Maria. Their relative innocence does not protect them, and things with them take a tragic turn. This film is based on a book by Bo Green Jensen. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Jorn Lendorph
- 1987
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, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Birgitte Federspiel, Kirsten Rolffes, (more)
- 1982
Tre Engle Og Fem Loever follows after the children's movie Kidnapped, with the same irrepressible Uncle Georg (Otto Brandenburg) leading his nephews and niece off on an adventure once again. This time some art thieves are foiled when Uncle Georg exchanges their stolen "Three Angels" masterpiece for little Oscar's oil painting of five lions -- and the chase is on, this time through the famed Copenhagen Tivoli Gardens. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Otto Brandenburg, Jesper Langberg, (more)
- 1980
An imaginary world is brought to the screen in this children's fantasy about a little boy named Virgil (Bror Bodtker-Naess) and an older bully nicknamed "Frogeater Orla" (Allan Olsen). Unlike other fairy tales from different times and climes, the slightly absurd world of these children and a bevy of animals is not meant to teach ethics or any particular lessons. The idea put across in the design, execution, and script is to laugh at the children outwitting the bully, enjoy the mechanical animals, and be amused at how the children can get away with ignoring some adult codes of proper behavior. Even the actors have fun, imagine that. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Allan Olsen
- 1967
In this heavy drama, a woman goes on a tumultuous train ride to South America, has a number of affairs, get involved in a murder and finds herself in a brothel. Later she finds herself pursued by one of her train conquests as she returns to New York to become a star dancer. Time passes and she boards another train. Here she is assaulted by a masked man who demands that she take off her clothes. In the morning she wakes up alone. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Harriet Andersson, Erick Wedersøe, (more)
