Peter Reichhardt Movies
- 2008
A man trying to breathe new life into his career attempts to do the same with his relationship with his son in this drama from Denmark. Born and raised in Copenhagen, Roland (Baard Owe) was a hard-drinking aspiring theatrical director who left his family behind when he moved to Germany in search of work. Years later, he's come back home to direct a production for a local theater company, and in many ways he seems a changed man -- thoughtful, focused, and with a firm control of his appetites. Needing a place to stay in Copenhagen, Roland contacts his son Jakob (Carsten Bjornlund) and asks if he can use his spare room; Jakob, who hasn't heard from his father in years, turns him down and Roland rents a flat instead. Catching a glimpse of Jakob with his wife and children, Roland becomes determined to win back his son's affection, and when Jakob sees his father is dating a local woman, Kirsten (Hanne Hedelund), and is determined to make a fresh start in Copenhagen, he begins reaching out to his dad again. Comeback was the first feature film from writer and director Ulrik Wivel. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Baard Owe, Carsten Bjornlund, (more)
- 1998
In this Danish comedy, motel-owner Ford Fordson (Bent Warburg) gets iced in the motel's freezer. Cops Rosenkrantz (Steen Rasmussen) and Gyldenstjerne (Michael Wikke) investigate, interviewing an assortment of relatives, eccentric employees, and other oddballs. As they attempt to solve the mystery, connections and clues echo Othello, Hamlet, and other Shakespearean plays. Shown at the 1998 Gothenburg Film Festival. ~ Bhob Stewart, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Allan Olsen, Sidse Babett Knudsen, (more)
- 1983
Based on the first book in a trilogy by Danish novelist Bjarne Reuter, Zappa proved an early international breakthrough for its director, Bille August. The story of three teenagers in 1960s Copenhagen is really no big literary accomplishment -- the boys become delinquents because of their parents' inattentiveness in particular and a decadent society in general -- but August elicited wonderful performances from his young, inexperienced cast, especially Adam Tønsberg, as the lower-middle-class boy with upward mobile pretensions, and Peter Reichhardt as the thoroughly vicious Steen, whose carnivorous pet fish gives the film its name. The son of Danish matinee-idol Poul Reichhardt, Peter Reichhardt offered a truly frightening portrayal of contained malice. Director August filmed the second novel in Reuter's youth trilogy, Tro, Håb og Kærlighed, the following year. ~ Hans J. Wollstein, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Peter Reichhardt, Adam Tønsberg, (more)
