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:

ambulance | patient | hospital | police | money | 

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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

Although the movie was shot in a real ambulance, most of the time it was a studio location in front of a green screen. More than 450 shots were green screen and an additional 100 shots had other visual effects.

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Goofs

After the window in the drivers side is broken, it is visible again several times as unbroken in the chase following shortly after.

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Connections

Referenced in Filmens verden: Ambulancen (2005)

User Reviews

Another danish film below average. 2 men trying to rob a bank to give their dying mother a lung-transplantation with the money.

Thomas Bo Larsen displays yet another character as an imbecile criminal from Copenhagen. The movie doesn't bring anything new to the Danish movies and he's seen in this role dozens of times before. The action scenes are not many and not so entertaining at all. It simply needs action to have at least something worth seeing.

The best scene of the film is the opening scene from whereon everything goes wrong.

It's hard to see what the movie wants to contribute with. After I saw it I felt a bit of having wasted my own time on it. The twists the movie tries to give are way to easy to predict.

The whole plot of the movie is way better on paper that on film.