Hans Kristensen Movies

This Danish drama shows the suffering of the three flawed participants in an unfortunate love-triangle. The ungainly but physically powerful Bent (Benny Hansen) is a driven, obsessed man full of self-hatred. He claims to love his wife Eva (nn-Mari Max Hansen) but physically abuses her. She is in love with Bent's gentle, alcoholic, Peter (Otto Brandenburg). Peter returns her feelings, but he's too weak-willed to help her, or to deal with his alcoholism. The tensions among the trio escalate to a surprising conclusion. ~ Clarke Fountain, Rovi

This farce, tinged by social commentary, begins when a worker named Age (Nesper Christensen) is dumped by his girlfriend Else (Ulla Henningsen) for the death of their sex life, killed off by Age's overwork and exhaustion. Else also evicts his buddy Viggo (Tommy Kenter) from the living quarters that had been shared by the three of them. On the heels of that indignity, the two homeless friends lose their jobs at the factory where they both work, and then find themselves trying to escape a fate worse than death as the subjects of an experiment by an evil industrialist and his like-minded daughter. Eventually, life takes a turn for the better as they escape the unknown terrors planned by the menacing father-daughter duo. Age's exploits are interspersed or sometimes highlighted by Viggo's sax performances (by JesperThilo, an accomplished tenor saxaphonist), one of the better features of the film. The work of Hans Kristensen as a writer and director, with Hans Hansen as a cowriter, although known for its social commentary, cedes stage center to farcical humor here - for better or worse. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, Rovi

Per (Ole Ernst) is a young, homeless drifter. He accepts a proposition by a factory owner that he burn the factory down for the insurance, and he reluctantly does the deed. Pursued by the police, he seeks help from the factory owner, who sends him to his country estate to be cared for by his wife. She and Per become attracted to one another and have a romantic encounter before Per's crimes catch up with him and he must move on. ~ Clarke Fountain, Rovi