Ambulance (2005)

"Ambulance" is a psychological thriller based on 3 rules: 1. The entire film must take place in only ONE LOCATION; an ambulance 2. The story must be in REAL TIME; a 80 minute ride 3. There must be only 4 CHARACTERS on the ride.

Director:

Laurits Munch-Petersen

Writers:

Laurits Munch-Petersen, Lars Andreas Pedersen

Stars:

Thomas Bo Larsen, Paw Henriksen, Helle Fagralid

4 nominations.

Cast

Complete credited cast:
Thomas Bo Larsen	...	Frank
Paw Henriksen	...	Tim
Helle Fagralid	...	Julie
Torbjørn Hummel	...	Ejvin
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Niels Andersen	...	Far / motorcyklist
Charlotte Bidstrup	...	Sygeplejerske
Lars Bjarke	...	Man on the road
Nicolei Faber	...	Politibetjent
Annie Birgit Garde	...	Ældre dame
Rasmus Iversen	...	Politibetjent
Mads Koudal	...	Politibetjent
Lars Oluf Larsen	...	Politibetjent
Iben Miller	...	Sygeplejerske
Laurits Munch-Petersen	...	Ambulance driver
Mikkel Rosenberg	...	Blikkenslager

Storyline

"The Ambulance" is an intense 80 minute tour de force about the two brothers, Tim and Frank, who make a robbery to get money to pay for their dying Mother, so she can continue her medical treatment in Germany, after the Danish health care system has abandoned her. But the robbery goes wrong and the police arrive and prevent the two brothers from using their planned getaway car. Instead they steal an ambulance, but they discover - during their escape from the police - that there's a dying heart Patient and a hospital intern, Julie, in the back of the ambulance. Julie tells the two brothers that the Patient will die, if they don't turn around immediatly and go back to the hospital! This splits up the two brothers. They are now, all of a sudden, in the dilemma of their life: Should they save the Patient - or their own Mother!...Tim is forced to turn against his own big brother to prevent getting a murder on his conscience!

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Plot Keywords:

sunlight | telephone call | ambulance | patient | hospital | 

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Taglines:

You don't steal an ambulance!

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Genres:

Drama | Thriller

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Details

Official Sites:

Nordisk Film [Denmark] Official site

Country:

Denmark

Language:

Danish

Release Date:

15 July 2005 (Denmark)

Also Known As:

Ambulance

Filming Locations:

Denmark

Box Office

Budget:

$2,000,000 (estimated)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Det Danske Filminstitut, Fridthjof Film, Nordisk Film

Technical Specs

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

The film is shot in a real ambulance. The day before shooting it was out on the streets saving lives.

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Goofs

When a police car is avoiding collision with a truck, skid marks are seen in the gravel *before* the police car that makes them is actually driving through the gravel.

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Connections

Referenced in Filmens verden: Ambulancen (2005)

User Reviews

Nothing interesting

A quite uninteresting movie.

Two criminals uses a ambulance as their escape vehicle. Of course this ambulance keeps an important role throughout the movie.

This movie reminds a lot of the whole bunch of action comedies, that Denmark has produced in the last six-seven years. There is almost nothing new in this one. Just the fact that Thomas Bo Larsen once again plays a bad criminal says a lot about the lack of originality in this movie.

The movie is actually quite short. Aprox. 1 hour and 15 minutes. But since the movie was very uninteresting, I was quite pleased that it was not any longer.

I give it four out of ten.