Men & Chicken (2015)

Two outcast brothers, through getting to know their unknown family, discover a horrible truth about themselves and their relatives.

Director:

Anders Thomas Jensen

Writer:

Anders Thomas Jensen

Stars:

David Dencik, Mads Mikkelsen, Nikolaj Lie Kaas

10 wins & 8 nominations.

Cast

Credited cast:
David Dencik	...	Gabriel
Mads Mikkelsen	...	Elias
Nikolaj Lie Kaas	...	Gregor
Søren Malling	...	Franz
Nicolas Bro	...	Josef
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Stine Engberg Andersen	...	Epilog pige I
Rikke Louise Andersson	...	Sara
Ulla Asbjørn-Damsted	...	Gæst
Thor Bisbjerg	...	Hvid kittel II
Valdemar Bemmann Bredning	...	Boy I
Lisbet Dahl	...	Susan
Johnny Didriksen	...	Hvid kittel V
Matti Ehlers	...	Dreng børnehaven
Daniel Engstrup	...	Hvid kittel I
Jens Fitzau	...	Tjener I

Storyline

Gabriel and Elias are two very different brothers. Gabriel is a worn down university professor and Elias is a man whose only concern is women and trivial knowledge. During a lecture Gabriel receives a phone call. Their father is dead. Things take a turn when the brothers learn through a videotape recorded by their now late father, that he in fact wasn't their biological father. Gabriel and Elias discover that their biological father lives on the island Ork. They set out to the island and here they meet their real family. The brothers' first meeting with the family doesn't go as expected. Gabriel and Elias are stranded in the marshland of Ork. Here they meet the mayor of Ork and his daughter Ellen, a neurotic woman who hates her life, herself, her father and the island. Surrounded by abnormal people, Gabriel and Elias discover the truth about themselves and their relatives. A truth that while paralyzing them also sets them free.

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Plot Keywords:

zoophilia | genetic experiment | genetics | chicken | brother brother relationship | 

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Taglines:

Man vælger ikke selv sin familie (You don't choose your own family)

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Genres:

Comedy | Drama | Mystery | Sci-Fi

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Certificate:

Not Rated

Details

Country:

Denmark Germany

Language:

Danish

Release Date:

5 February 2015 (Denmark)

Also Known As:

Men & Chicken

Filming Locations:

Beelitz, Brandenburg, Germany

Box Office

Opening Weekend USA:

$2,654, 24 April 2016

Gross USA:

$30,127

Company Credits

Production Co:

M&M Productions, DCM Productions, Danmarks Radio (DR)

Technical Specs

Runtime:

104 min

Color:

Color (HD)

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

Mænd & høns is only the fourth feature-film by director Anders Thomas Jensen. Mads Mikkelsen, Nikolaj Lie Kaas and Ole Thestrup have appeared in all four.

User Reviews

Huh

I should start off by saying that I'm not a lover of quirky movies-- art-house or indy or weird. John Wick is my favourite film. Having said that, I loved this. The film is just funny. I watched an interview with the director and he claimed it played on an "English" sense of humour. I agree. Only the English get English humour, so I'm not sure everyone would find this as amusing as I did. The comedy is in an expression or a tiny throwaway line. In some crazy ways it reminds me of The World's End, the movie with Simon Pegg about a group of ageing men trying to regain their youth. In both movies you have the leads playing it totally straight, which only goes to emphasise the utter madness going on around them (in the Simon Pegg movie it's killer robots and in Men & Chicken it's...well, men with chickens, but you get my point). We start out with two slightly odd men (Mads's character Elias in particular) only to descend step by step, when they meet their other brothers, into total madness and chaos, which only gets funnier and funnier as your basis for judging madness slips and slips. I'm not sure which scene I liked more, the trip to the kindergarten to get rehired (I wouldn't hire these men as suicide bombers let alone to work with kids) or the one to pick up "girls" in an old people's home. This is one I'll watch again.