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Cast
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Bjarne /
Eigil
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Svend
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Line Kruse | ... |
Astrid
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Ole Thestrup | ... |
Holger
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Bodil Jørgensen | ... |
Tina
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Aksel Erhardtsen | ... |
Pastor Villumsen
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Lily Weiding | ... |
Fru Juhl
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Nicolas Bro | ... |
Hus Hans
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Camilla Bendix | ... |
Beate
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Elsebeth Steentoft | ... |
Ingrid Grith
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Kjeld Nørgaard | ... |
Leif Larsen
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Peter Reichhardt | ... |
Levnedsmiddelkontrollen
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Kristian Halken | ... |
Levnedsmiddelkontrollen
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Lars Ranthe | ... |
Levnedsmiddelkontrollen
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Mikkel Vadsholt | ... |
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Svend and Bjarne work for a butcher in a small Danish town. Fed up with their boss' arrogance, they decide to start their own butcher shop. After dismal beginnings, an unfortunate accident happens which coincides with a large order of meat. One hasty decision leads to another and soon the business thrives. In the meantime, Bjarne has to deal with his twin brother who has been in coma for years following a gruesome car accident. Written by Piotr Zembrowski
Plot Keywords:
butcher | stock broker | friendship | brother brother relationship | brain damage |Taglines:
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Rated R for language, disturbing images and drug use | See all certifications »Parents Guide:
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Country:
DenmarkLanguage:
DanishRelease Date:
21 March 2003 (Denmark) See more »Also Known As:
The Green Butchers See more »Box Office
Opening Weekend:
$2,483 (USA) (10 December 2004)Gross:
$2,483 (USA) (10 December 2004)Company Credits
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Written by Kai Normann Andersen and Børge Müller
Performed by Poul Reichhardt
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Holger: [about sausages] I don't know if you can think of any greater humiliation than to be stuffed in your own arse.See more »
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"Alene med en yndig pige"Written by Kai Normann Andersen and Børge Müller
Performed by Poul Reichhardt
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De Grønne slagtere or The Green Butchers as it is called in English is a very dark comedy about two losers who work for a popular butcher. They are fed up with their bosses criticism and decide to start a business on their own. Their shop is expensive and it doesn't even have electricity all over the place. And to make things worse, they haven't got any customers (as their former boss predicted). When the man pays them a visit in their shop, he challenges them to provide the meat for a dinner party he organizes.
Than a tragic accident happens. One of the butchers locks the electrician into the freezing chamber when he closes the shop. The man dies and the neurotic one of the two butchers decides to cut fillets out of the electrician's thigh and serves it to the dinner party instead of calling the police. It's an incredible success. All at once every person in the village wants to taste that incredible "chicken". Overwhelmed by his sudden success the butcher sees no other option but to kill more people, who he can sell as chicken.
I guess that the subject cannibalism may not be enjoyed by everyone, especially not because it is shown with a lot of humor. Personally I liked it a lot. It shows perfectly how far some people would go for some social acceptance and to get out of their isolation. It may sound a bit far-fetched, but I'm sure you would be surprised to see how people in real life sometimes act.
Next to the original subject, I was also pleased by the actors' performances and the humor. There is no overacting, as you might expect in this kind of movies, it's all very sober and realistic (I guess that's typical for the Scandinavians and Scandinavian movies). The same for the humor. I'm sure I wouldn't have liked it as much as I did now if the humor had been over the top, or with a lot of farting, vomiting,... like you see so often in American movies. I loved this movie and I give it an 8/10.