Bo Christensen Movies

A big hit in its native Denmark, this feel-good romantic comedy is about sex, children, marriage, and infidelity. The film focuses on two married couples. Sus (Sidse Babett Knudsen) and her Italian husband Sonny (Rafael Edholm) are debating whether or not to have a child; he's eager to have one while she waffles. Meanwhile, Niller (Niels Olsen) and Lizzie (Sos Egelind) decide to adopt a baby girl from Africa. When Niller and Sus meet for the first time, sparks fly, but nothing ultimately happens. Later, though, a pregnant Sus dumps Sonny after learning of his philandering, and her thoughts once again return to Niller. Den Eneste En was screened at the 1999 Haugesund Film Festival. ~ Jonathan Crow, Rovi

In a bleak future strangely similar to that depicted in Fahrenheit 451, any form of literature (especially fiction) which depicts any taboo thought or emotions (including guilt) is quickly burned, if it somehow manages to get printed in the first place. In this story, Adam (Jesper Klein) is a writer whose works have come to the attention of the authorities, a sinister cabal of politicians and psychiatrists. One evening, his wife says things which make him believe she has been brainwashed into following the official view, and he flies into a rage and attacks her. He is taken away to a mental institution, all the while believing she is dead, and that he killed her. He is puzzled when he is released and told to get on with life. He can find no evidence that his wife or his son ever existed. In the course of looking for them, he seeks out his underground publisher. He was followed the whole time, and the publisher was the government's real quarry. He is reunited with his wife and child, and they appear to be one happy (if entirely vacuous) family again, but they surely know that they are being watched very closely. The story is based on a novel by Henrik Stangerup. ~ Clarke Fountain, Rovi

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

John (Alan Olsen) is a Danish-born son who sets out to locate his father in this comedy thriller. While traveling to Los Angeles, John is caught in a small town in New Mexico and promptly has his money stolen. The main suspect is the waitress Lucy (Patricia Arquette), but she offers herself to him sexually. John soon is watched closely by the local sheriff (Richard Bright) and the suspicious hotel owner (Vincent Schiavelli). He joins a survivalist group run by Lucy's father, a local preacher who has more than fatherly love for his daughter. John and the father soon lock horns in an inevitable showdown. ~ Dan Pavlides, 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

John Ericsson (Keve Hjelm) is a horse trainer suspected of drugging Rainfox, a champion in his class, and as a consequence he finds himself caught in a shady world of betting, money, and murder that becomes more complex as time goes on. This crime drama set among the elite of racing is not as fast-paced as its subject and loses by trading action in for words. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, Rovi

Kurt and Valde (Lars Knutson and Arne Hansen) are a down-on-their-luck duo who seem destined to bumble their way through life riding high on farce and outrageous fortune, yet director Hans Kristensen has opted to round out their human traits -- a noble idea, but it is at odds with the slapstick-style humor. Both men have been dodging hotel bills as they move from one place to the next, when suddenly they find themselves (in disguises) mistaken for the buddies of an inventor who has just accidentally blown himself up before his formula for an artificial gasoline could be handed over to the proper authorities. Now people believe that Kurt and Valde have the formula -- and the chase is on. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, Rovi

A 1723 satire written by Ludvig Holberg ("the Moliere of the north") was chosen as the story for this full-length feature film, meant to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the Nordisk Film Kompagni, perhaps the world's oldest, continually-running film studio. Director Kaspar Rostrup has decided to emphasize the perceived weaknesses of the upper and lower classes in Denmark in his adaptation of the story. Jeppe of the Hill features (Buster Larson) as the tipsy peasant Jeppe and (Henning Jensen) as the Baron who plays a cruel practical joke on the unsuspecting simpleton. The comedy springs into action when the Baron encounters a dead-drunk Jeppe and has him brought to the castle in a stupor. When Jeppe comes around, he is led to believe that he is the Baron himself, now in a position to wreak a long-desired vengeance for indignities suffered at the hands of his former social superiors -- which he does with an increasing enthusiasm that sets off alarms in the Baron's mental security system. Before mayhem and worse is allowed to happen, Jeppe gets roaring drunk again, and the Baron is able to toss him back into his pre-Baronial lifestyle -- poor Jeppe loses his brief but heady moment of power. Although he is no longer top man on the hill, Jeppe has craftily observed some of the Baron's elite servants stealing the silver, so to speak. Armed with that information, Jeppe may have the last word yet. First-time director Kaspar Rostrup and the lead actor Buster Larson successfully brought Jeppe of the Hill to the stage 10 years before the release of this film. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, Rovi

The entire nation of Denmark is in danger from a takeover bid in this the 11th instalment in the popular comedy series about three bungling safecrackers. The chase goes all the way to the E.U.'s headquarters in Brussels, but the comedy remains very Danish and is one of the best entries in the series. Dingbat Yvonne (Kirsten Walther) offers her usual dimwit bon mots, pudgy Keld (Poul Bundgaard) still fears his wife's wrath, lanky Benny (Morten Grunwald) remains the optimist even in the face of the utmost adversity, and Egon (Ove Sprogøe), the hard-proven leader of the plan, regularly loses his cool. But together they manage to save the nation from the machinations of evil multinational company High Northern. ~ Hans J. Wollstein, Rovi

The infamous Olsen Gang rollicks again in this Danish crime comedy. In this story, Egon, Benny and Kjeld are swindled by a noble con-man, and they pledge themselves to revenge. The swindle involves real and phony Ming vases. Furthermore, Egon is being forced to raise money for a wedding gift; it seems that his female parole officer's son is getting married to a dim-witted, and very pregnant, country girl. ~ Clarke Fountain, Rovi

In this comedy, two gangs of thieves exert themselves to outdo one another at art forgery and bank robbery, among other things. ~ Clarke Fountain, Rovi

In this adventure, a salesman of novelty items suddenly finds himself inducted into the secret service after his satchel is accidentally switched with that of an insane scientist who endeavors to start a nuclear war. Now the salesman must stop the doctor at all costs. To do so, the clever hero uses some of the very gadgets he sells. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi