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An IT company hires an actor to serve as the company's president in order to help the business get sold to a cranky Icelander.An IT company hires an actor to serve as the company's president in order to help the business get sold to a cranky Icelander.An IT company hires an actor to serve as the company's president in order to help the business get sold to a cranky Icelander.
- Awards
- 1 win & 7 nominations total
Friðrik Þór Friðriksson
- Finnur
- (as Fridrik Thor Fridriksson)
Lars von Trier
- Narrator
- (uncredited)
- Director
- Writer
- All cast & crew
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- TriviaThis movie is shot with camera technique called Automavision, an innovation in which the camera angles and movements are selected by a computer. The media notes explain technique, "a principle for shooting film developed with the intention of limiting human influence by inviting chance in from the cold". There are odd framings and jump cuts within scenes making everything seem a bit unsettled.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Smagsdommerne: Episode #4.16 (2006)
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The Danish lawyer Ravn (Peter Gantzler) owns the high technology company IT that he founded with the money he borrowed from his six directors. However, he invented a fictitious and powerful president named "The Boss of It All" to cover the unpopular policies of the company with the employees. When he decides to sell up the company to the Icelandic entrepreneur Finnur (Fridrik Thor Fridriksson), the buyer demands to negotiate directly with the president of IT. Ravn hires the unemployed actor Kristoffer (Jen Albinus), who is a fan of the actor Antonio Gambini, to perform the role of president of IT under a contract of confidentiality. Along the days, Kristoffer gets close to and emotionally involved with the employees of IT. Sooner he finds that the lawyer of Finnur is his ex-wife that tells him that Ravn is tricking his colleague that will lose their jobs and rights. Kristoffer tries to persuade Ravn to confess his business to the co-workers until he finds that Finnur is also a fan of Gambini.
The witty "Direktøren for det Hele" is a surrealistic dark humor comedy of Lars von Trier with a funny story of greed and vanity. I am a big fan of this director and I liked this movie, but I lost many jokes since I am not familiarized with Danish humor and culture. The conclusion is very sarcastic and I believe not easy to be understood. My vote is seven.
Title (Brazil): "O Grande Chefe" ("The Big Boss")
The witty "Direktøren for det Hele" is a surrealistic dark humor comedy of Lars von Trier with a funny story of greed and vanity. I am a big fan of this director and I liked this movie, but I lost many jokes since I am not familiarized with Danish humor and culture. The conclusion is very sarcastic and I believe not easy to be understood. My vote is seven.
Title (Brazil): "O Grande Chefe" ("The Big Boss")
- claudio_carvalho
- Jan 29, 2010
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Box office
- Budget
- €3,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $51,548
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $7,855
- May 27, 2007
- Gross worldwide
- $3,111,395
- Runtime1 hour 39 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1
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