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Constance (1998 Film)
''Constance'' is a 1998 feminist erotic film directed by Knud Vesterskov and produced by Puzzy Power, a division of Lars von Trier's film company Zentropa. It was the first hardcore pornographic film ever to have been produced by an established mainstream film studio. ''Constance'' is based on the Puzzy Power Manifesto developed by Zentropa in 1997, and was the first in a series of pornographic films aimed particularly at a female audience. The others would be Zentropa's ''Pink Prison'' (1999) and '' All About Anna'' (2005). Plot A young woman, Constance (Anaïs), arrives at the mansion of the experienced Lola ( Katja Kean), where she is initiated into the mysteries of sexuality. The story is told in flashback via a framing device with lyrical diary excerpts and narration read by mainstream actresses Christiane Bjørg Nielsen and Hella Joof. (In the English-language version, narration is by Danish actress Susan Olsen and Helle Fagralid). Critical reception The film was shown ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Knud Vesterskov
Knud Vesterskov is a Danish film director who originally made his mark with a long string of experimental art films. He later wrote and directed two highly unusual hardcore pornography films, ''Constance (1998 film), Constance'' (1998) and ''HotMen CoolBoyz'' (2000), both produced by Lars von Trier's company Zentropa, Zentropa Entertainments based in Denmark. Knud Vesterskov's career is the subject of Bent Staalhøj's feature-length documentary ''From Scratz'' (2002), included on the French 2xDVD release of ''HotMen CoolBoyz''. Filmography *''Johnny'' (1988) *''HOV! (FAMOUS LAST WORDS)'' (1989) *''A Motherly Peepshow'' (1989) *''The Night Ride'' (1989) *''Miss Lola'' (1990) *''Other Traces'' (1991) *''Jeg kommer igen i morgen'' (aka: ''I'll Be Back Tomorrow'') (1992) *''Shooting Script: A Transatlantic Love Story'' (1992) *''The Tattoed Sheep'' (1992) *''By The Dawn's Early Light'' (1993) *''Urban Dissonance'' (1993) *''Nazi-Nigger'' (1994) *''Stjålne blikke'' (aka: ''Stolen Glim ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pink Prison
''Pink Prison'' is a 1999 erotic film for women, directed by Danish director Lisbeth Lynghøft, and produced by Puzzy Power, a division of Lars von Trier's film company Zentropa. As the follow-up to ''Constance (1998 film), Constance'' (1998), it was the second hardcore pornography, hard-core pornographic film ever to have been produced by an established mainstream film production company. ''Pink Prison'' is based on the Puzzy Power Manifesto developed by Zentropa in 1997, as were Zentropa's two other sex films for women: ''Constance (1998 film), Constance'' (1998), and ''All About Anna'' (2005). Plot Katja Kean stars as a photo journalist, Mila, who breaks into a men's penitentiary to get an interview with the mysterious warden and thus win a bet with her publisher. Encounters with various inmates and staff members, including the helpful Prison Chef (Mr. Marcus), lead her gradually closer to her goal, but all is not what it seems. Critical reception ''Pink Prison'' was show ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1990s Pornographic Films
Year 199 ( CXCIX) was a common year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was sometimes known as year 952 ''Ab urbe condita''. The denomination 199 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Roman Empire * Mesopotamia is partitioned into two Roman provinces divided by the Euphrates, Mesopotamia and Osroene. * Emperor Septimius Severus lays siege to the city-state Hatra in Central-Mesopotamia, but fails to capture the city despite breaching the walls. * Two new legions, I Parthica and III Parthica, are formed as a permanent garrison. China * Battle of Yijing: Chinese warlord Yuan Shao defeats Gongsun Zan. Korea * Geodeung succeeds Suro of Geumgwan Gaya, as king of the Korean kingdom of Gaya (traditional date). By topic Religion * Pope Zephyrinus succeeds Pope Victor I, as the 15th pope. Births Valerian Roman ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stern (magazine)
''Stern'' (, German for "Star", stylized in all lowercase) is an illustrated, broadly left-liberal, weekly current affairs magazine published in Hamburg, Germany, by Gruner + Jahr, a subsidiary of Bertelsmann. Under the editorship (1948–1980) of its founder Henri Nannen, it attained a circulation of between 1.5 and 1.8 million, the largest in Europe's for a magazine of its kind. Unusually for a popular magazine in post-war West Germany, and most notably in the contributions to 1975 of Sebastian Haffner, ''Stern'' investigated the origin and nature of the preceding tragedies of German history. In 1983, however, its credibility was seriously damaged by its purchase and syndication of the forged Hitler Diaries. A sharp drop in sales anticipated the general fall in newsprint readership in the new century. By 2019, circulation had fallen under half a million. History and profile Journalistic style Henri Nannen produced the first 16-page issue (with the actress Hildegard Knef [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Norwegian Language
Norwegian ( ) is a North Germanic language from the Indo-European language family spoken mainly in Norway, where it is an official language. Along with Swedish and Danish, Norwegian forms a dialect continuum of more or less mutually intelligible local and regional varieties; some Norwegian and Swedish dialects, in particular, are very close. These Scandinavian languages, together with Faroese and Icelandic as well as some extinct languages, constitute the North Germanic languages. Faroese and Icelandic are not mutually intelligible with Norwegian in their spoken form because continental Scandinavian has diverged from them. While the two Germanic languages with the greatest numbers of speakers, English and German, have close similarities with Norwegian, neither is mutually intelligible with it. Norwegian is a descendant of Old Norse, the common language of the Germanic peoples living in Scandinavia during the Viking Age. Today there are two official forms of ''written'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Norway
Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic countries, Nordic country located on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. The remote Arctic island of Jan Mayen and the archipelago of Svalbard also form part of the Kingdom of Norway. Bouvet Island, located in the Subantarctic, is a Dependencies of Norway, dependency, and not a part of the Kingdom; Norway also Territorial claims in Antarctica, claims the Antarctic territories of Peter I Island and Queen Maud Land. Norway has a population of 5.6 million. Its capital and largest city is Oslo. The country has a total area of . The country shares a long eastern border with Sweden, and is bordered by Finland and Russia to the northeast. Norway has an extensive coastline facing the Skagerrak strait, the North Atlantic Ocean, and the Barents Sea. The unified kingdom of Norway was established in 872 as a merger of Petty kingdoms of Norway, petty kingdoms and has existed continuously for years. From 1537 to 1814, Norway ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
AVN Award
The AVN Awards are List of movie awards, film awards sponsored and presented by the American trade magazine ''AVN (magazine), AVN'' (''Adult Video News'') annually to honor achievements in the global Sex industry, adult entertainment industry. The awards are often called the "Academy Awards, Oscars of porn". The award ceremony occurs in early January during the AVN Adult Entertainment Expo in Las Vegas Valley, Las Vegas, Nevada. ''AVN'' sponsored the first AVN Awards ceremony in February 1984. Since 2008, the show has aired in a form edited for time on Showtime (TV channel), Showtime, which is usually broadcast in a 90-minute time slot. The awards are divided into over 100 categories, some of which are analogous to industry awards offered in other film and video genres, and others that are specific to Pornography, pornographic/erotica, erotic film and video. Awards for Gay pornography, gay adult video were a part of the AVN Awards from the 1987 ceremony through the 1998 cerem ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scandinavia
Scandinavia is a subregion#Europe, subregion of northern Europe, with strong historical, cultural, and linguistic ties between its constituent peoples. ''Scandinavia'' most commonly refers to Denmark, Norway, and Sweden. It can sometimes also refer to the Scandinavian Peninsula (which excludes Denmark but includes a part of northern Finland). In English usage, Scandinavia is sometimes used as a synonym for Nordic countries. Iceland and the Faroe Islands are sometimes included in Scandinavia for their Ethnolinguistics, ethnolinguistic relations with Sweden, Norway and Denmark. While Finland differs from other Nordic countries in this respect, some authors call it Scandinavian due to its economic and cultural similarities. The geography of the region is varied, from the Norwegian fjords in the west and Scandinavian mountains covering parts of Norway and Sweden, to the low and flat areas of Denmark in the south, as well as archipelagos and lakes in the east. Most of the population ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stockholm Film Festival
The Stockholm International Film Festival () is an annual film festival held in Stockholm, Sweden. It was launched in 1990 and has been held every year since then during the second half of November, and focuses on emerging and early career filmmakers. The winning film in the international competition section is awarded the Bronze Horse (''Bronshästen''), and it awards a number of other prizes. History The Stockholm Film Festival was founded in 1990 by the three film enthusiasts Git Scheynius, Kim Klein, and Ignas Shceynius. The first festival took place over four days, with its opening film being " Wild at Heart" by David Lynch. In 1994, the Stockholm Film Festival took a step into the digital age as the first film festival in the world with its own website. David Lynch visited the festival for the first time in 2003 to receive the Stockholm Lifetime Achievement Award, 13 years after '' Wild at Heart'' inaugurated the very first edition of the Stockholm Film Festival. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Helle Fagralid
Helle Fagralid (born 11 May 1976) is a Danish actress who has appeared in number of feature films and television series. Career Fagralid played Iben in the TV-series ''Nikolaj og Julie'' (2002–2003), Freja, the goddess of love, in the TV-series ''Jul i Valhal'' (2005) and Maja Zeuthen, mother of the missing Emilie Zeuthen, in the popular TV-series ''Forbrydelsen, Forbrydelsen III''. She is one of the two female leads in Laurits Munch-Petersen's ''Between Us (2003 film), Mellem os'' (2003), which among its many international awards won the Student Academy Award, Student Oscar as Honorary Foreign Film 2004. Among her theatrical starring roles is Julie, the sympathetic hostage in the action-thriller ''Ambulancen'' (2005). Filmography References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Fagralid, Helle 1976 births Danish child actresses Danish film actresses Danish television actresses Danish stage actresses Living people People from Helsingør ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hella Joof
Hella Joof (born 1 November 1962) is a Danish actress and director. She was born to a Danish mother and an aristocratic Gambian father who belonged to the Joof dynasty. Joof directed '' En kort en lang'' (2001), '' Oh Happy Day'' (2004) and '' Fidibus'' (2006). Her feature film debut ''En kort en lang'' was seen by ten percent of the Danish population, and her second feature ''Oh Happy Day'', was sold to Disney for a US remake. ''Shake It All About'' was entered into the 24th Moscow International Film Festival. She has hosted '' Bullerfnis'' and other children's TV-programs, but was also the voice of the title character in the hardcore pornographic film '' Constance'' (1998). As an actress, Joof is best known for award-winning performances as supporting characters in such comedies as '' Hannibal & Jerry'' (1997), '' Den eneste ene'' (1999), and '' Humørkort-stativ-sælgerens søn'' (2002). Joof appears as one of the three judges in the Television Show '' Talent 09'' a Dani ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
All About Anna
''All About Anna'' is a 2005 Danish erotic film directed by Jessica Nilsson and starring Gry Bay and Mark Stevens. The film is explicit in its exploration of sexual relationships. It is a co-production between Innocent Pictures and Lars von Trier's Zentropa Productions, and is the third of Zentropa's sex films for women, following '' Constance'' (1998) and ''Pink Prison'' (1999). All three films were based on the Puzzy Power Manifesto developed by Zentropa in 1997. Plot Anna (Gry Bay) is a single woman who seeks to maintain an active sex life while staying clear of emotional involvement, after having been jilted by the love of her life, Johan ( Mark Stevens). She has a relationship with Frank (Thomas Raft), but refuses to let him move in with her. When Johan shows up again after five years absence, she starts wondering how much longer she can maintain her emotional independence, and if that is what she wants. She has sex with him, loses his telephone number and cannot con ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
