A 6 y.o. Inuit boy runs off a snowy roof in Copenhagen and dies. Smilla, a half Inuit who lives in the building and knows the boy, looks into it. What makes an acrophobic boy run up on the roof? The clues take her to Greenland.
The beginning of the 20th century. Gertrud and Ingmar are in love with each other. While Ingmar is away during the winter, a religious wave spreads in the area. Also Gertrud becomes a ... See full summary »
Director:
Bille August
Stars:
Maria Bonnevie,
Ulf Friberg,
Pernilla August
Swedish composer/conductor Martin and concertmaster Barbara fall in love. After their divorces, they're happily married. While composing an opera, Martin is diagnosed with Alzheimer's. It slowly changes him.
Director:
Bille August
Stars:
Sven Wollter,
Viveka Seldahl,
Reine Brynolfsson
The film centers on a big Polish family. Jadzia is the mother and the ruler of the Pzoniak family (she has five children). Though she's happily married to Bolek, she is also having a ... See full summary »
A beautiful young dentist (Ormond) working in a tough British prison starts to become attracted to a violent inmate (Roth) after the break-up of her marriage, and embarks upon an illicit ... See full summary »
The story of Ingmar Bergman's parents. In 1909, poor, idealistic theology student Henrik Bergman falls in love with Anna Åkerbloom, the intelligent, educated daughter of a rich family in ... See full summary »
Director:
Bille August
Stars:
Samuel Fröler,
Pernilla August,
Max von Sydow
Swiss Professor Raimund Gregorius (Jeremy Irons) abandons his lectures and buttoned-down life to embark on a thrilling adventure that will take him on a journey to the very heart of himself.
The end of the 19th century. A boat filled with Swedish emigrants comes to the Danish island of Bornholm. Among them are Lasse and his son Pelle who move to Denmark to find work. They find ... See full summary »
Director:
Bille August
Stars:
Pelle Hvenegaard,
Max von Sydow,
Erik Paaske
GOODBYE BAFANA is the true story of a white South African racist whose life was profoundly altered by the black prisoner he guarded for twenty years. The prisoner's name was Nelson Mandela.
Director:
Bille August
Stars:
Joseph Fiennes,
Dennis Haysbert,
Diane Kruger
Denmark, 1963: Teenagers Bjørn and Erik are into girls and being in a band helps Bjørn meet Anna. Erik likes Kirsten but she likes Bjørn. Having a mentally ill mom at home also ruins Erik's chances. Anna's pregnancy changes everything.
Director:
Bille August
Stars:
Adam Tønsberg,
Lars Simonsen,
Camilla Søeberg
Based on Peter Hoeg's bestseller, this film is set in snowy Copenhagen where a small boy is found dead after he fell off a roof. Smilla Jasperson, a close friend who lives in the same house begins to suspect murder because she knows that the boy was afraid of heights and would not have played on the roof. As she begins to investigate, she is pulled deeper and deeper into a conspiracy that could very well mean her death.Written by
Harald Mayr <marvin@bike.augusta.de>
Vanessa Redgrave played Guenevere opposite Richard Harris' Arthur in Camelot. See more »
Goofs
On the boat while, listening to the tape, Licht tells Smilla that an EEG is monitoring someone's heart. EEGs measure brain waves; EKGs (also called ECGs) measure heart rate and electrical activity. See more »
Quotes
Jakkelsen:
No way. I get claustrophobic. I'm not kidding.
Smilla:
You're not going. I am.
Jakkelsen:
I get claustrophobic for other people too man.
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This film is full of surprises. There's Julia Ormond, excellent as ever, but cast in an unaccustomed "action woman" role (she also seems to have done her own stunts - watch for the scene where she abseils down the side of the ship). And there's the transition from the moody mystery of the first-half to the explosions and action of the second-half. It's actually rather like an "X-Files" episode (and rather better than the "X-Files" movie) although, as is always the case, the mystery is more involving than the explanation. Nevertheless, I still recommend this movie and try not to miss the striking opening sequence.
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This film is full of surprises. There's Julia Ormond, excellent as ever, but cast in an unaccustomed "action woman" role (she also seems to have done her own stunts - watch for the scene where she abseils down the side of the ship). And there's the transition from the moody mystery of the first-half to the explosions and action of the second-half. It's actually rather like an "X-Files" episode (and rather better than the "X-Files" movie) although, as is always the case, the mystery is more involving than the explanation. Nevertheless, I still recommend this movie and try not to miss the striking opening sequence.