Iben Hjejle
1) Defiance
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Formats
Description
The deep forests of Poland and Belorussia are the domain of the occuping Germans during World War II. The three Bielski brothers go into the forests and find the impossible task of foraging for food, weapons and survival, not just for themselves but for a large mass of fleeing Polish Jews from the German war machine. The brothers, living with the fear of discovery must contend with neighboring Soviet partisans and deciding whom to trust. They take...
3) The eclipse
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Michael Farr (Ciarán Hinds), a teacher raising his two kids alone since his wife died two years earlier, has been seeing and hearing strange things late at night. He isn't sure if he is having nightmares, or if he's experiencing a haunting. Working as a volunteer for an international literary festival, he is assigned to Lena Morelle (Iben Hjejle), an author of books about ghosts and the supernatural. Establishing a rapport with one another, Michael...
Series
Film Movement volume Year 4, film 7
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
Norwegian
Description
Three friends and one love triangle. All want to quest for the perfect wave and love.
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
Danish
Description
When decisions needed to be made at the office, the owner invented a nonexistent company president to hide behind. Now, forced to bring the "Boss" face-to-face with potential purchasers and employees, he hires a failed actor to play the part. Much to everyone's surprise, the unmasked boss plays the ultimate part by becoming a hero.
Publisher
Drafthouse Films
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
Danish
Description
Klown follows two wildly inappropriate friends as they run amok through the Danish countryside plowing through social taboos, unspeakable debaucheries and absurd sexual encounters. Misguided Frank kidnaps the nephew of his pregnant girlfriend in an eager attempt to prove his fatherhood potential while the sex-driven Casper is determined to visit a world-renowned brothel. Based on the popular Danish 6-season TV show by the same name.
Publisher
Hollywood Pictures Home Video
Pub. Date
[2007?]
Language
English
Description
Grosse Pointe Blank: Martin Blank, a hitman stuck in a career rut, attends his ten-year high school reunion to pull off one last job and ends up rekindling an old flame.
High fidelity: The owner of a semi-failing record store located on one of the back streets of Chicago sells music the old-fashioned way with his two wacky clerks.
Publisher
Vanguard Cinema
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
Danish
Description
Four childhood buddies, whose only redeeming value is that they only know how to mess up any crime they try to commit. These buddies, dispatched by a mob boss to rob a diplomat, decide to take the money and run. After their van breaks down, they decide to take refuge in an abandoned building. Their leader, tired of being a criminal, decides to buy the building and open a restaurant and somehow they manage to unite and are able to turn their lives...
Series
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
History tells us that Napoleon died in exile on the Island of St. Helena. Or did he? In 1821, a secret network of Napoleonic loyalists hatch an ingenious plot: the Emperor will return to Paris and a double will take his place in exile.
12) Mifune
Publisher
Columbia Tristar Home Video
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
Danish
Description
Kresten is enjoying life as a successful businessman and a newlywed (he's just married the boss' daughter). But when he receives a phone call informing him of his father's untimely passing, his comfortable new life is thrown into turmoil. He's kept his poor, small-town past a secret from his new wife and her family and must sneak away to settle family business before his cover is blown.