On SBS: Danish Film Season

24 September 2008 | 12:02 - By World Movies

SBS is celebrating the best of contemporary Danish cinema this month.

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SBS is celebrating contemporary Danish cinema this month with a mix of  broad comedies and tense family dramas in the works.

Thursday October 30

Manslaughter  (Sprangfarlig Bombe)
Director: Per Fly

Director Per Fly completes his acclaimed social class trilogy with a study on the impact of politics and violence on seemingly mundane middle class people.

Carsten (Jesper Christensen) is a middle-aged schoolteacher eking out a comfortable bourgeois existence in a routine marriage, and a stable job. Things take a turn when he gets involved with a fiery ex-student, Pil (Beate Bille). Pil's activism puts her in hot water when she is implicated in the hit and run death of a policeman after the vandalism of an arms factory. Carsten encourages Pil not confess to being the driver and he abandons his wife and family to support her. Inevitably, both are forced to confront the uncomfortable truths they’ve opted to ignore.


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02 Aug 2010 14:46 AEST

Unsure

From: Dubbo

Accused- Movie

Has anyone watched Accused- a Danish fil, made in 2005. I never got to see the end of the film and am so curious as towhether the father Heinrik was guilty of molesting Stine, his daughter. Can anyone fill me in on how the film ended? It was an excellent film, howver I thought I was recording it, but wasn't.

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25 Mar 2010 18:39 AEST

dizzy robinson

From: woollahra

'global village' on Scandinavia on tv 24th

I can't find it. Please helpas I mised it and would like to see it.

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13 Feb 2010 13:47 AEST

Dany Benjamin

From: Shenton Park

Film on SBS Title not known

Looking for the name of a Nordic film about 2 couples at a dinner table talking about infidelity Film starts out in a Lawyers office with a couple being granted a divorce six months earlier...Please help.

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06 Dec 2008 12:32 AEST

Dylan

From: Adelaide

Can Anyone Remember This Film

Some years ago on SBS I saw a film, which I thought might have been Danish, set in the late 1800s or early 1900s where a simpleton is accused of burning down a barn. To save him from execution his mother has to cut some acres of crops in an unreasonable amount of time. While the mother is hard at work trying to save her son's life, we see the excesses of the upper class through the lord/burger who set the challenge. Does anyone out there know the title of this film?

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17 Oct 2008 13:31 AEST

Patricia

From: Launceston

Accused/Brothers

Two very powerful Danish movies. "Gruelling" is definitely the right word to decribe the experience of watching "Accused". Its so well done it is easy to see the problem from the point of view of each main character, Henrik, Stine and Nina and feel sad for each of them. "Brothers" was also excellent, enjoyable and thought provoking.

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15 Oct 2008 13:56 AEST

Vince

From: Kelvin Grove

Scandinavian movies

To say that all movies from Scandinavia are gloomy is a bit of a narrow minded comment...my partner is from Sweden and there are plenty of funny movies produced in both Sweden and Denmark. that we have enjoyed here and abroad I would rather watch a gloomy movie from Scandinavia, than watch some of the garbage that Hollywood produces and commercial stations air constantly.

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04 Oct 2008 14:57 AEST

bruk

From: melbourne

extra

as infected SBS fan I must say extraordinary! In the very top that I ever watched on your program. Such a powerful story that in two hours describe life and remind us who we are, what we want. Exceptional acting at all levels, direction and else. Several times I did remind myself “no, it’s only a movie.”

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03 Oct 2008 8:15 AEST

Tom Walsh

From: Glenbrook NSW

Brothers - SBS 02/10/08

I had the pleasure to watch "Brothers" last night. Exceptional is the only word I can say about this movie. Please, please ignore Sergej comments! SBS is a great alternative to the commercial crap currently shown on TV. Scandinavian movies are a pleasant alternative .... please SBS, program more quality drama as was shown in last night's episode of Brothers.

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30 Sep 2008 15:43 AEST

henri

From: fitzroy

bring on the scandinavian movies !

come on sergej - so everything scandinavian is " gloomy and tired living " - ever heard of stereoptypes mate or have you recently OD'ed on IKEA ? there's good and bad in scandinavian movies like everywhere else.

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29 Sep 2008 23:37 AEST

Sergej

From: Dandenong

Come on!

Can you please go back to showing good, enjoyable movies (ones that aren't quite so sickening and twisted, and frankly shallow). What has happened to SBS, you showed some really good films for a period, and now you are going back to all this gloomy, supposed deep, but actually quite shallow and useless. Tsotsi, for example was a great choice. It was uplifting, something we need in todays world, scandinavian gloominess and tired living we can certainly do without

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