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Mifune's Last Song
''Mifune'' (, "Mifune's Last Song") is a 1999 romantic comedy film, starring Iben Hjejle and Anders W. Berthelsen. Directed by Søren Kragh-Jacobsen, it was the third film made according to the Dogme 95 group rules. The film was a great success in Denmark and an international blockbuster, ranked among the ten best-selling Danish films worldwide. It was produced by Nimbus Film. At the 49th Berlin International Film Festival, the film won the Jury Grand Prix, Silver Bear – Special Jury Prize and Iben Hjejle won an Honourable Mention. It was the Danish submission for Best Foreign Language Film for the Academy Awards, but was not nominated among the finalists. Plot Kresten had moved from his parents' farm on Lolland, an out-of-the-way small Danish island, to Copenhagen to pursue his career. When his father dies, he has to move back to the farm where not much has happened since he left. He places an ad in the local newspaper to get help running the farm. He has to support his bro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Søren Kragh-Jacobsen
Søren Kragh-Jacobsen (; born 2 March 1947, in Copenhagen) is a Danish film director, musician, and songwriter. He was one of the founders and practitioners of the Dogme95 project, for creating films without artificial technology or techniques. Early career Kragh-Jacobsen started out as a popular musician in Denmark, before attending film school in Prague. After returning to Denmark, he directed and co-wrote television productions. He became one of the developers of the ''avant-garde'' film-making project Dogme95, based on creating films based only on reality, without artificial lighting and technology. Career His first feature film was ''Wanna See My Beautiful Navel?'' (1978). This was followed by the successful ''Rubber Tarzan'' (1981), ''Thunderbirds'' (1983), ''Emma's Shadow'' (1988), ''Shower of Gold'' (1988), ''The Boys from St. Petri'' (1991), ''The Island on Bird Street (film), The Island on Bird Street'' (1997), and his international break-through, dogme No. 3 '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jesper Asholt
Jesper Asholt (born 11 May 1960 in Silkeborg) is a Danish actor. He has performed in more than fifty films since 1992. Selected filmography Awards * 2000: Bodil Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role The Bodil Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role () is one of the merit categories presented by the Danish Film Critics Association at the annual Bodil Awards. Created in 1948, it is one of the oldest film awards in Europe, and it honours the ... for his role of Rud in '' Mifune'' * 2008: Bodil Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role for '' The Art of Crying'' References Sources * External links * Jesper Asholtat Den Danske Film Database (in Danish) {{DEFAULTSORT:Asholt, Jesper 1960 births Best Actor Bodil Award winners Best Supporting Actor Bodil Award winners Danish male film actors Living people People from Silkeborg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Vinterberg
Thomas Vinterberg (; born 19 May 1969) is a Danish film director who, along with Lars von Trier, co-founded the Dogme 95 movement in filmmaking, which established rules for simplifying movie production. He is best known for the films '' The Celebration'' (1998), '' Submarino'' (2010), '' The Hunt'' (2012), '' Far from the Madding Crowd'' (2015), and '' Another Round'' (2020). For ''Another Round'' he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director, the first Danish filmmaker nominated in the Best Director category. Early life and education Vinterberg was born in Frederiksberg, Denmark. In 1993, he graduated from the National Film School of Denmark with ' (''Sidste omgang''), which won the jury and producers' awards at the Internationales Festival der Filmhochschulen München, and First Prize at Tel Aviv. Career In 1993 Vinterberg made his first TV drama for DR TV and his short fiction film ', produced by at Nimbus Film. The film won awards at the 1994 Nordisk Pan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson
Bjørnstjerne Martinius Bjørnson ( , ; 8 December 1832 – 26 April 1910) was a Norwegian writer who received the 1903 Nobel Prize in Literature "as a tribute to his noble, magnificent and versatile poetry, which has always been distinguished by both the freshness of its inspiration and the rare purity of its spirit". The first Norwegian Nobel laureate, he was a prolific polemicist and extremely influential in Norwegian public life and Scandinavian cultural debate. Bjørnson is considered to be one of the The Four Greats (Norwegian writers), four great Norwegian writers, alongside Henrik Ibsen, Ibsen, Jonas Lie (writer), Lie, and Alexander Kielland, Kielland. He is also celebrated for his lyrics to the Norwegian national anthem, "Ja, vi elsker dette landet". The composer Fredrikke Waaler based a composition for voice and piano () on a text by Bjørnson, as did Anna Teichmüller (). Childhood and education Bjørnson was born at the farmstead of Bjørgan parsonage, Bjørgan in K ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seven Samurai
is a 1954 Japanese epic samurai action film directed by Akira Kurosawa from a screenplay co-written with Shinobu Hashimoto and Hideo Oguni. Taking place in 1586 in the Sengoku period of Japanese history, it follows the story of a village of desperate farmers who seek to hire samurai to combat bandits who will return after the harvest to steal their crops. At the time, the film was the most expensive film made in Japan. It took a year to shoot and faced many difficulties. It was the second-highest-grossing domestic film in Japan in 1954. Many reviews compared the film to the Western film genre. ''Seven Samurai'' is regarded as one of the greatest and most influential films in cinema history. Since its release, it has consistently ranked highly in critics' lists of greatest films, such as the BFI's '' Sight & Sound'' and Rotten Tomatoes polls. It was also voted the greatest foreign-language film of all time in the BBC's 2018 international critics' poll. It is regarded a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Akira Kurosawa
was a Japanese filmmaker who List of works by Akira Kurosawa, directed 30 feature films in a career spanning six decades. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest and most influential filmmakers in the History of film, history of cinema. Kurosawa displayed a Filmmaking technique of Akira Kurosawa, bold, dynamic style strongly influenced by Western cinema yet distinct from it. He was involved with all aspects of film production. Kurosawa entered the Cinema of Japan, Japanese film industry in 1936, following a brief stint as a painter. After years of working on numerous films as an assistant director and scriptwriter, he made his debut as a director during World War II with the popular action film ''Sanshiro Sugata'' (1943). After the war, the critically acclaimed ''Drunken Angel'' (1948), in which Kurosawa cast the then-little-known actor Toshiro Mifune in a starring role, cemented the director's reputation as one of the most important young filmmakers in Japan. The two m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sofie Stougaard
Sofie Stougaard (born 5 November 1966 in Svaneke) is a Danish actress who has had roles in, among other movies, ''Mifune's Last Song'', and the Danish sitcom '' Langt fra Las Vegas''. She has also participated in the Danish version of Dancing with the Stars ''Strictly Come Dancing (widely known as Dancing with the Stars)'' is an international television franchise based on the format of the British TV series '' Strictly Come Dancing,'' itself a successor to the show ''Come Dancing'' (1950–1998) .... References External links * Danish film actresses Danish television actresses Danish women comedians People from Bornholm Living people 1966 births {{Denmark-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Klaus Bondam
Klaus Bondam (born 19 November 1963, in Aakirkeby) is a Danish actor and politician. Acting career Bondam has been the manager of two theatres, (1996–2003) and Folketeatret (2003–2005), and has been administrative manager of Mungo Park theatre (1995–1996). Klaus Bondam began acting on stage in 1988. His acting breakthrough came in the movie ''Festen'' in 1998, playing the German toastmaster at the party. He starred in the series '' Langt fra Las Vegas'' (2001–2003) as the sexually driven boss Niels Buckingham. Filmography Film Television Politics Klaus Bondam was in the political party Radikale Venstre and ran for mayor of Copenhagen in November 2005. The party's city council representation grew from five to seven seats. This was not enough to secure the mayorship. He was instead named Mayor of the Technical and Environmental Committee. He resigned in 2010 and left the party in 2013. He is no longer active in Danish politics. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Søren Malling
Søren Dyrberg Malling (; born 3 February 1964) is a Danish actor. Career Raised in Kjellerup, Malling trained at Skuespillerskolen at Odense Teater in 1992. He is best known for his role as Inspector Jan Meyer in the Danish TV crime thriller '' Forbrydelsen''. In 2010 Malling played Torben Friis in another Danish series, '' Borgen'', and later had a major role in ''1864'', resulting in him achieving international recognition. In his spare time Malling plays tennis. He is married to actress , who played his character's wife Hanne in ''Forbrydelsen''. Agger also appears in ''Borgen''. In 2013, he received the Lauritzen Award. Malling won a Robert Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role for his role as Kjeld at the 2017 Robert Awards. Filmography Film * ' (1998) – Løber * '' Mifunes sidste sang'' (1999) – Palle Alfon * ' (2002) – Karsten Kørelærer * ' (2002) – Brandmand * '' Anklaget'' (2005) – Forsvarer * ' (2006) – Bent * ' (2007) – Tommy Jensen * ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sidse Babett Knudsen
Sidse Babett Knudsen (; born 22 November 1968) is a Danish actress who works in theatre, television, and film. Knudsen made her screen debut in the 1997 improvisational comedy '' Let's Get Lost'', for which she received both the Robert and Bodil awards for Best Actress. Following the critical success of her debut, Knudsen has been considered one of the top Danish actresses of her generation.Morten Piil, ''Danske Filmskuespillere'', Copenhagen: Gyldendal, 2001, p.238 In 2000, she again won both best actress awards for the comedy romance '' Den Eneste Ene'' (English title: '' The One and Only''). In 2016, she won the César Award for Best Supporting Actress for the film '' Courted'' (''L'Hermine''). Knudsen has also received award nominations for her roles in '' Monas Verden'' ('' Mona's World'') and '' Efter brylluppet'' ('' After the Wedding''). Knudsen achieved international recognition for her leading role as fictional Danish Prime Minister Birgitte Nyborg in the Danish TV se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ellen Hillingsø
Ellen Gunilla Hillingsø (born 9 March 1967) is a Danish actress who is known primarily for her work in films. She is also a voice actress, narrating audio books. Early life Ellen Gunilla Hillingsø was born on 9 March 1967 in Copenhagen to Kjeld Georg Hilligsøe Hillingsø, then a lieutenant in the Danish Royal Life Guards, and Ellen Birgitta Hillingsø (née Juel), an antiques dealer. Hillingsø's maternal grandfather was Gregers Juel, a chamberlain and a Knight (1st Class) of the Order of the Dannebrog. Her paternal uncle was Lars Hillingsø, a fashion designer and founder of the ''Lars Paris'' brand. She is a goddaughter of Queen Margrethe II of Denmark. Hillingsø has one sibling, Jens Georg, who is three years older. He works at the Rigshospitalet in Copenhagen and is a former chairman of Médecins sans Frontières. Career Primarily a film actress, Hillingsø made her debut in the farce '' Huller i suppen'' in 1988, playing a small role alongside the comic duo John an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paprika Steen
Kirstine "Paprika" Steen (born 3 November 1964) is a Danish actress and director best known for her performances in Dogme 95 films '' Festen'', '' The Idiots'', Mifune, and '' Open Hearts''. Steen was the first Danish actress since Karin Nellemose to win both Best Actress (for '' Okay'') and Best Supporting Actress ('' Open Hearts'') in the same year at the Robert Festival, the Danish equivalent of the Oscars. Biography Steen was born on 3 November 1964 in Frederiksberg, Denmark, the daughter of musician and conductor and the actress Avi Sagild. She is the sister of musician and actor . Steen applied to the Acting School of Odense Theatre 13 times before being accepted and attending from 1988 to 1992. Steen performed on stage in Dr. Dante productions and been associated with the Royal Danish Theatre since 1997. In 1997 she wrote and performed in the satirical television series ''Lex og Klatten''. In 1998, Steen became an active participant in the Dogme 95 film movement ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
