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Paw (film)
''Paw'' (also known as ''Boy of Two Worlds'') is a 1959 Danish film directed by Astrid Henning-Jensen. It tells the story of a boy from the Caribbean who, affected by the deaths of his parents and maiden aunt, escapes to the Danish forest. Plot Paw, a twelve-year-old orphan, arrives in Denmark accompanied by his late father's best friend, as his mother from the Caribbean and his Danish father passed away at his birth. He's to live with his unfamiliar Aunt Bo, who had only cared for her canaries until now. The urbanized country is quite foreign to Paw, leading to one culture shock after another. Rejected by his new environment, he escapes to a nearby Danish forest where he meets the Swedish poacher Anders, forming a close bond. When Aunt Bo falls ill and dies, Paw is once again left without a family. However, a strong friendship has developed between him and Anders. When discussions arise about placing Paw in an orphanage, Anders steps in and offers to officially care for him. The f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Astrid Henning-Jensen
Astrid Henning-Jensen (born Astrid Smahl; 10 December 1914 – 5 January 2002) was a Danes, Danish film director, actress, editor and screenwriter. Early life Henning-Jensen was born in the Copenhagen district of Frederiksberg in 1914, to parents Ferdinand Smahl and Ruth Hanner. She graduated from secondary school (''realskole'') and began working as an actress in the theatre. She acted from 1935 to 1938 in theatres such as ''Alléscenen'' and ''Riddersalen'' in Copenhagen. On 10 August 1938, she married Danish film director Bjarne Henning-Jensen. Career Her marriage to Bjarne Henning-Jensen was of great importance to her career. She began working as his assistant in 1941 at Nordisk Film. The duo worked together on a number of films as co-directors, co-writers as well as assisting one another on individual projects. Henning-Jensen worked as a filmmaker in multiple capacities; writing, editing and directing. In her career spanning more than 50 years she made a large number o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ebba Amfeldt
Ebba Amfeldt (21 December 1906 – 1 June 1974) was a Danish film actress. She appeared in 29 films between 1946 and 1973. Filmography * ''Mig og mafiaen'' (1973) * '' På'en igen, Amalie'' (1973) * '' Man sku være noget ved musikken'' (1972) * '' Hovedjægerne'' (1971) * '' Til lykke Hansen'' (1971) * ''Olsen-banden'' (1968) * '' Farvel Thomas'' (1968) * '' Hold da helt ferie'' (1965) * ''En ven i bolignøden'' (1965) * ''Don Olsen kommer til byen'' (1964) * '' Premiere i helvede'' (1964) * ''Døden kommer til middag'' (1964) * ''Støv for alle pengene'' (1963) * '' Skyggen af en helt'' (1963) * ''Vi har det jo dejligt'' (1963) * '' Støvsugerbanden'' (1963) * '' Der brænder en ild'' (1962) * '' Drømmen om det hvide slot'' (1962) * ''Det støver stadig'' (1962) * '' Landsbylægen'' (1961) * '' Eventyr på Mallorca'' (1961) * '' Eventyrrejsen'' (1960) * '' Frihedens pris'' (1960) * ''Paw'' (1959) * ''Over alle grænser'' (1958) * ''Mod og mandshjerte'' (1955) * '' Vores l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Danish Drama Films
Danish may refer to: * Something of, from, or related to the country of Denmark People * A Danish person, also called a "Dane", can be a national or citizen of Denmark (see Demographics of Denmark) * Culture of Denmark * Danish people or Danes, people with a Danish ancestral or ethnic identity * A member of the Danes, a Germanic tribe * Danish (name), a male given name and surname Language * Danish language, a North Germanic language used mostly in Denmark and Northern Germany * Danish tongue or Old Norse, the parent language of all North Germanic languages Food * Danish cuisine * Danish pastry, often simply called a "Danish" See also * Dane (other) * * Gdańsk * List of Danes This is a list of notable Danes, Danish people. Actors * Ellen Aggerholm (1882–1963), stage and screen actress * Ane Grethe Antonsen (1855–1930), actress * Anna Bård (1980–), model, actress * Gry Bay (1974–), actress * Rasmus Bjerg (1 ... * Languages of Denmark {{disambig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1959 Drama Films
Events January * January 1 – Cuba: Fulgencio Batista flees Havana when the forces of Fidel Castro advance. * January 2 – Soviet lunar probe Luna 1 is the first human-made object to attain escape velocity from Earth. It reaches the vicinity of Earth's Moon, where it was intended to crash-land, but instead becomes the first spacecraft to go into heliocentric orbit. * January 3 ** Alaska is admitted as the 49th U.S. state. ** The southernmost island of the Maldives archipelago, Addu Atoll, declares its independence from the Kingdom of the Maldives, initiating the United Suvadive Republic. * January 4 ** In Cuba, rebel troops led by Che Guevara and Camilo Cienfuegos enter the city of Havana. ** Léopoldville riots: At least 49 people are killed during clashes between the police and participants of a meeting of the ABAKO Party in Léopoldville in the Belgian Congo. * January 6 – The International Maritime Organization is inaugurated. * January 7 – The United State ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1959 Films
The year 1959 in film involved some significant events, with '' Ben-Hur'' winning a record 11 Academy Awards. Top-grossing films (U.S.) The top ten 1959 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows: Events * January 23 – Republic Pictures releases its last production, '' Plunderers of Painted Flats''. * January 29 – Walt Disney releases his 16th animated film, ''Sleeping Beauty'' in Beverly Hills. It is Disney's first animated film to be shown in 70mm and modern 6-track stereophonic sound, but its last fairytale adaptation until 1989. Also on the program is Disney's new "pictorial interpretation" ''Grand Canyon'', which uses the music of Ferde Grofé's '' Grand Canyon Suite''. ''Grand Canyon'' wins an Academy Award for Best Documentary (Short Subject). *April 30 – François Truffaut's '' The 400 Blows'' opens the 1959 Cannes Film Festival bringing international attention to the French New Wave. * June 4 – The Three Stooges release t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Danish Submissions For The Academy Award For Best Foreign Language Film
A list is a set of discrete items of information collected and set forth in some format for utility, entertainment, or other purposes. A list may be memorialized in any number of ways, including existing only in the mind of the list-maker, but lists are frequently written down on paper, or maintained electronically. Lists are "most frequently a tool", and "one does not ''read'' but only ''uses'' a list: one looks up the relevant information in it, but usually does not need to deal with it as a whole". Lucie Doležalová,The Potential and Limitations of Studying Lists, in Lucie Doležalová, ed., ''The Charm of a List: From the Sumerians to Computerised Data Processing'' (2009). Purpose It has been observed that, with a few exceptions, "the scholarship on lists remains fragmented". David Wallechinsky, a co-author of '' The Book of Lists'', described the attraction of lists as being "because we live in an era of overstimulation, especially in terms of information, and lists help ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Submissions To The 32nd Academy Awards For Best Foreign Language Film
A list is a set of discrete items of information collected and set forth in some format for utility, entertainment, or other purposes. A list may be memorialized in any number of ways, including existing only in the mind of the list-maker, but lists are frequently written down on paper, or maintained electronically. Lists are "most frequently a tool", and "one does not ''read'' but only ''uses'' a list: one looks up the relevant information in it, but usually does not need to deal with it as a whole". Lucie Doležalová,The Potential and Limitations of Studying Lists, in Lucie Doležalová, ed., ''The Charm of a List: From the Sumerians to Computerised Data Processing'' (2009). Purpose It has been observed that, with a few exceptions, "the scholarship on lists remains fragmented". David Wallechinsky, a co-author of '' The Book of Lists'', described the attraction of lists as being "because we live in an era of overstimulation, especially in terms of information, and lists help ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1960 Cannes Film Festival
The 13th Cannes Film Festival took place from 4 to 20 May 1960. Belgian writer Georges Simenon served as Jury President for the main competition. The ''Palme d'Or'', the festival's top prize, was awarded to ''La Dolce Vita'' by Federico Fellini. The festival opened with ''Ben-Hur'' by William Wyler. Juries Main Competition *Georges Simenon, Belgian writer Jury President *Marc Allégret, French filmmaker * Louis Chauvet, French writer and journalist * Diego Fabbri, Italian writer *Hidemi Ima, Japanese *Grigori Kozintsev, Soviet filmmaker * Maurice Le Roux, French composer *Max Lippmann, West-German critic *Henry Miller, American writer * Ulyses Petit de Murat, Argentine writer *Simone Renant, French actress Short Films Competition * Georges Altman, French journalist * Nicolas Hayer, French cinematographer * Henri Storck, Belgian filmmaker *Jean Vivie, French CST official *Dušan Vukotić, Yugoslavian filmmaker Official Selection In Competition The following feature film ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Academy Award For Best Foreign Language Film
The Academy Award for Best International Feature Film (known as Best Foreign Language Film prior to 2020) is one of the Academy Awards handed out annually by the U.S.-based Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS). It is given to a feature-length motion picture produced outside the United States with a predominantly non-English dialogue track.80th Academy Awards – Special Rules for the Best Foreign Language Film Award . . Retrieved November 2, 2007. When the first Academy Awards ceremony was held on May 16, 1929, to honor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Finn Lassen
The word Finn (''pl.'' Finns) usually refers to Finnish people, a Finnic ethnic group. Finn or Finns may also refer to: Communities and ethnic groups * Finnic peoples, various ethnic groups who speak Finnic languages * Baltic Finnic peoples, various ethnic groups inhabiting the Baltic Sea region who speak Finnic languages * Finnish citizen, a citizen of Finland * Finn (ethnonym), an ethnonym for multiple Northern European peoples Places * Finn Lake, Minnesota, United States * Finn Township, Logan County, North Dakota, United States * Lough Finn, a freshwater lough (lake) in County Donegal, Ireland * River Finn (Foyle tributary), County Donegal, Ireland People * Finn (given name), including a list of people with the given name * Finn (surname), English and German-language surname Mythological figures * Finn (dog), an English police dog and namesake of "Finn's Law" providing legal protection for animals in public service * Finn (Frisian), Frisian king who appears in ''Beow ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grethe Høholdt
Grethe is a given name derived from Margarethe. Notable people with the name include: * Grethe and Jørgen Ingmann, Danish singers and musicians * Grethe Fossli (born 1954), Norwegian politician for the Labour Party * Grethe Grünberg (born 1988), Estonian ice dancer * Grethe Gynnild Johnsen (born 1959), Norwegian journalist * Grethe Holmer (1924–2004), Danish actress * Grethe Ingmann (1938–1990), Danish singer * Grethe Kausland (1947–2007), Norwegian singer, performer and actress *Grethe Krogh (1928–2018), Danish organist and professor * May Grethe Lerum (born 1965), Norwegian novelist *Grethe Fenger Møller (born 1941), Danish politician * Grethe Nielsen (1926–), Danish sprinter * Grethe Philip (1916–2016), Danish politician * Grethe Rask (1930–1977), Danish physician and surgeon who practiced medicine in what was then known as Zaire * Grethe Rytter Hasle (born 1920), Norwegian planktologist *Grethe Sønck Grethe Sønck (born Grethe Ingeborg Nielsen Hald; 16 July ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mogens Hermansen
Mogens is a Danish masculine given name (specifically Danish shake-up of Magnus), and may refer to: *Mogens Ballin, Danish artist, one of a group of painters who gathered in the Breton village of Pont-Aven *Mogens Berg (born 1944), Danish former football player * Jens Mogens Boyesen (1920–1996), Norwegian diplomat and politician for the Labour Party *Mogens Brandt (1909–1970), Danish film actor * Mogens Camre (1936–2016), Danish politician and member of the European Parliament with the Danish People's Party * Mogens Christensen (1929–2020), Norwegian luger * Mogens Christiansen (born 1972), former Danish cricketer *Mogens Ellegaard (1935–1995), of Denmark, regarded as the "father of the classical accordion" *Mogens Bay Esbensen (born 1930), Danish born chef and author, introduced Thai cuisine and ingredients to Australia *Mogens Fog (1906–1990), Danish physician, politician (Danish Communist Party) and resistance fighter * Mogens Frey, retired Danish road bicycle racer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
