Niels Hinrichsen Movies

Leif Panduro's novel Traditions, My Behind was a sensation among Danish youth of the 1950s in a similar fasion to American J.D. Salinger's Catcher in the Rye which appeared at about the same time. This movie is based on Panduro's well-loved tale. In the story, David is an upper-class teen whose response to his discovery of the overwhelmingly offensive hypocrisy which surrounds him is to bite the offender's thighs, or simply to kick them on the backside. His uncomprehending mother immures him in a psychiatric nursing home. There, he endures the meandering platitudes of the psychiatrist and befriends a genuinely mad old fellow. The madman, who is highly paranoid, and David, amuse themselves by tossing around small bombs. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide

British writer Jerrard Tickell's operetta-style Hussar Honeymoon was made into a Danish comedy by veteran director Annelise Reenberg, an old hand at this sort of thing. Unfortunately, 1970 was a little late in the game for stories of mistaken identity and romantic escapades involving gaily dressed lieutenants and the inevitable minister's naughty daughters. The two horse-guard lieutenants of the tale must prove their manhood by drinking untold cases of champagne, riding 40 kilometers through the pretty Danish countryside and have 2 romantic encounters along the way, all in the span of a single night. The minister's daughters are identical twins (both of them played by Susse Wold), which the film-makers apparently thought was hilarious. It wasn't. In fact, Hurra for de Blå Husarer was rather too tame for 1970, a time in history when censorship had all but disappeared in Denmark. ~ Hans J. Wollstein, All Movie Guide