Danish submissions for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film
This includes one film from Greenland, listed at the end.
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- DirectorErik BallingStarsAstrid VillaumeGunnar LauringRandi MichelsenIn this visual masterpiece and first Oscar nominated Danish film, young teacher Eva arriving in Greenland, surprising her fiancée in the arms of a woman. Seeking refuge, she meets a man also carrying a broken heart in the scenic landscape.
- DirectorAnnelise HovmandStarsEva CohnLily WeidingHans KurtThe eight year old girl, Lene, feels neglected by her loving, but busy parents. One day when she is once again let down, she run away from home. On her adventure she meets new people, buys a dog and see the ocean.
- DirectorGabriel AxelStarsAxel BangHenny Lindorff BuckhøjVerner TholsgaardOn the idyllic Birkø lives Christian a parish executive officer. He is a brave and honest man, happily married to Martha, and this couple has a son called Theo and he will once take over the farm.
- DirectorAstrid Henning-JensenStarsEdvin AdolphsonJimmy StermanAsbjørn AndersenYoung boy whose father was from Denmark and mother from a tropical island must live with his paternal aunt in Denmark. His skin color becomes an issue right away and he decides to escape and live in the forest.
- DirectorBent ChristensenStarsOsvald HelmuthEbbe RodeGunnar LauringSet in the late fifties in Denmark the poor junk yard assistant Harry inherits some money. He decides to use the money to hire a butler. The butler isn't too keen on the job at first, but he takes it because there aren't that many butler-jobs around at the moment. In the beginning both of them don't know what to expect of the other, but find a way to satisfy both of them. The people in the neighborhood at first make jokes about Harry and his butler, but in the end they start to accept him when he starts to help them.
- DirectorAnnelise HovmandStarsJohn KellandGhita NørbyAxel StrøbyeSix people randomly meets at a cottage. They pass through a series of conflicts connected to their past, and the events reveals the truth about them.
- DirectorCarl Theodor DreyerStarsNina Pens RodeBendt RotheEbbe RodeIn the elegant world of artists and musicians, Gertrud ends her marriage to Gustav and takes a lover, the composer Erland Jansson.
- DirectorHenning CarlsenStarsPer OscarssonGunnel LindblomBirgitte FederspielIn 1890, Pontus, the starving writer, wanders the streets of Christiania, in search of love and a chance to get his work published. All he meets is defeat and suffering while his sense of reality is withering. One moment his is delighted and the next he curses everybody. All the time he manages to maintain human dignity and pride.
- DirectorPalle Kjærulff-SchmidtStarsOle BusckKjeld JacobsenAstrid VillaumeA young boy grows up during the German occupation of Denmark in World War II.
- DirectorHenning CarlsenStarsHarriet AnderssonPreben NeergaardEva DahlbeckIt's a story of fire and play. About women and men. About life and death. About the marvelous legality of coincidences. It's a story of love--heavenly, mortal, and devilish love.
- DirectorLene GrønlykkeSven GrønlykkeStarsJesper KleinPaul HüttelInge BaaringThe warmhearted but rather naive Carl Henning (Jesper Klein) is an 18 y.o. dairy apprentice. He takes the run after a nightly fight with his employer (John Wittig), and is soon introduced to society's darker sides.
- DirectorFranz ErnstStarsPernille KløvedalMargit IversenSteen KaaløLone flees from a girls' home in Jutland, and goes to Copenhagen after a showdown. Here we follow her through various environments until she disappears into the city's throng.
- DirectorGert FredholmStarsOve SprogøeBodil KjerKarl SteggerTwo men disappear at the same time, one of them commits suicide with dynamite. The police try to figure out who it was and what happened to the other.
- DirectorHenning CarlsenStarsKarl SteggerBirgitte PriceOtto BrandenburgThe story follow the regulars at Cafe Strudsen in Nørrebro.
- DirectorErik BallingStarsOve SprogøeMorten GrunwaldPoul BundgaardThe Olsen gang is on vacation in Spain. They've run out of money so Egon Olsen has a plan. Leaving prison in Denmark, he joins the big time without his friends. Will they help Egon when he gets conned?
- DirectorHans KristensenStarsOle ErnstFrits HelmuthAgneta EkmannerPer is hired by a creepy manager to set fire on a factory that is part of a major fraud case. Of course, it goes wrong and Per must go underground at the director's deserted farm in Sweden.
- DirectorErik BallingStarsOve SprogøeMorten GrunwaldPoul BundgaardEgon Olsen and his 2 friends are hired to stage the theft of a Ming vase. He's double-crossed by the baron and wants revenge by swapping the Ming vase with a cheap copy during a big party at the castle. Will they succeed?
- DirectorNils MalmrosStarsLars JunggrenInez ThomsenIlse RandeThree episodes that illustrate three steps in a boy's relationship with the sexual. First as five-years old meeting with the more experienced cousin, then the first serious crush as seventeen and finally the student's carefree girl hunt.
- DirectorMorten ArnfredHenning KristiansenStarsKim JensenAllan OlsenHelle NielsenSteffen is picnicking with his girlfriend, daughter of a rich businessman, when he meets Charly - trying to steal Steffen's moped. Later they end up as BFFs despite the differences.
- DirectorMorten ArnfredStarsAllan OlsenFrits HelmuthHanne RibensThe coming of age of a young man in the 1950s.
- DirectorNils MalmrosStarsEva Gram SchjoldagerJan JohansenLine Arlien-SøborgWe follow the Danish students in a class at Århus Katedralskole late 1950s, from age 13 till 16.
- DirectorBille AugustStarsAdam TønsbergPeter ReichhardtMorten HoffIn the early '60s, 3 Danish classmates join a "den"/tree house. Steen likes his pet fish Zappa because it eats the weaker fish. Bjørn attracts girls and Mulle is a talkative, strong boy. Steen gets them into burglary and later escalates.
- DirectorPalle Kjærulff-SchmidtStarsThomas EjeNaja Rosing OlsenRasmus LyberthA young Dane, Erik goes to Greenland to investigate the mysterious death of his brother, whom the natives called "Tukuma" (the one who is always busy). Erik has his own troubles from the past, but during his stay in Greenland he is changed forever, after getting in touch with mother nature for the first time in his life.
- DirectorBille AugustStarsAdam TønsbergLars SimonsenCamilla SøebergDenmark, 1963: Teenagers Bjørn and Erik are into girls and being in a band helps Bjørn meet Anna. Erik likes Kirsten but she likes Bjørn. Having a mentally ill mom at home also ruins Erik's chances. Anna's pregnancy changes everything.
- DirectorErik ClausenStarsChristina BengtssonMogens EckertStig HoffmeyerA man has been in prison for sixteen years after killing of his wife. Now he seeks to create a new life, where he only finds warmth and fellowship with Turkish immigrants. He will also try to come to terms with the daughter who hates him.
- DirectorGabriel AxelStarsStéphane AudranBodil KjerBirgitte FederspielDuring the late 19th century, a strict religious community in a Danish village takes in a French refugee from the Franco-Prussian War as a servant to the late pastor's daughters.
- DirectorBille AugustStarsPelle HvenegaardMax von SydowErik PaaskeWhen his wife dies, Lasse takes his 12-year-old son, Pelle, from their home in Sweden to Denmark in search of a better life.
- DirectorKaspar RostrupStarsFrits HelmuthMikael HelmuthGhita NørbyThe active Regitze and passive Karl Aage have a party with friends and family at their allotment garden. He reminisces his life with her from meeting her during WWII, having a son, the son graduating, etc. up to present day.
- DirectorBirger LarsenStarsAnders SchoubyeTommy KenterBirthe NeumannLasse is 12 years old and not the most eager schoolboy. In fact, he's a bit of a mess. This is abruptly changed when his mother leaves Lasse's father and moves in with a wealthy dentist. But even though Lasse soon becomes virtuous and gets praise, the loss of his father does not disappear so easily.
- DirectorStellan OlssonStarsErik ClausenNina GunkeBenjamin Rothenborg VibeCopenhagen 1930. Through the eyes of a boy, his family and the outside world is depicted. A well knit, working class family. The boy has great expectations on his father. This leads to the involuntary unmasking of the father.
- DirectorLiv UllmannStarsKaren-Lise MynsterErland JosephsonGhita NørbyFrom 1886 to 1907 in the life of Sofie, a Jew in Copenhagen who is nearly 29, with no marital prospects, living with her loving parents. An artist, Hans Hojby, meets Sofie and is entranced, asking to paint her parents and also sketching her. She's responds, but he's not Jewish, and the family reacts by encouraging a marriage to Jonas, a homely draper. Sofie accepts this plan, accompanying her new husband to his town and bearing a son. As he withdraws in mental illness, Sofie begins an affair with his brother, and later returns to live with her parents. A confrontation with Hojby is inevitable as is her son's growing into adulthood and forming his own ideas about religion.
- DirectorAnders RefnStarsOle ErnstSofie GråbølMarika LagercrantzThis picture reveals late-19th-century Denmark in the way the literature of that period (the so-called critical realism) does. An aristocratic family bears the brunt of the tyranny of its head, Nils Uldahl-Ege. He betrays his once much-beloved wife, giving way to his primitive lust. From that moment on, his multiple adulteries make the lives of his whole family increasingly intolerable. One daughter, Clara, writes a secret diary devoted to her unrequited love--her cousin Isidor--in which she reflects upon her life and her girlish desires and sufferings.
- DirectorErik ClausenStarsMorten GundelAnders ForchhammerNikolaj Lie KaasCarl Nielsen's life from drummer with the village's playmates to regimentation musician and composer on the throne of world renown.
- DirectorJan TroellStarsMax von SydowGhita NørbyAnette HoffNorwegian Nobel Laureate Knut Hamsun's controversial support for the Nazi regime during World War II and its consequences for the Hamsun family after the war.
- DirectorNils MalmrosStarsAnneke von der LippeHelene EgelundTrond HøvikYoung vicar Mr. Paul arrives at the Faroe Islands to take up a benefice, and meets the young Barbara, twice married to vicars, and with both husbands laid cold in the grave. Despite the warnings of the surrounding community and his own religious scruples, he falls victim to Barbara's at once innocent and sinful charm. The appearance of the charming and gallant Andreas Heide in Thorshavn puts their love to the severest of tests.
- DirectorThomas VinterbergStarsUlrich ThomsenHenning MoritzenThomas Bo LarsenAt Helge's 60th birthday party, some unpleasant family truths are revealed.
- DirectorSøren Kragh-JacobsenStarsIben HjejleAnders W. BerthelsenJesper AsholtKresten's dad dies and he returns to the farm on Lolland to take care of things, including his developmentaly-challenged brother. He employs a hooker as maid. He loses his wife and job due to lies. The maid's kid brother moves in and they're a family of 4.
- DirectorKaspar RostrupStarsGhita NørbyThure LindhardtFrits HelmuthA mother and her autistic son Brian. One evening he comes home from his evening walk with stained shoes. The next morning it is rumored that a young woman was murdered in the neighboring park. The identity of the suspect is obvious, and while the police break down the door, Fru tries to keep her son in safe waters.
- DirectorLone ScherfigStarsAnders W. BerthelsenAnn Eleonora JørgensenAnette StøvelbækSeveral lonely hearts in a semi-provincial suburb of a town in Denmark use a beginner's course in Italian as the platform to meet the romance of their lives.
- DirectorSusanne BierStarsSonja RichterNikolaj Lie KaasMads MikkelsenA Dogme film about an engaged couple that is torn apart after the man is paralyzed in an accident, and the woman falls in love with the husband of the woman who caused the accident.
- DirectorChristoffer BoeStarsNikolaj Lie KaasMaria BonnevieKrister HenrikssonA young man who thought himself already in love with a nice girl is drawn into a literary drama when he is captured by a deep and stimulating love affair.
- DirectorJørgen LethLars von TrierStarsClaus NissenMajken Algren NielsenDaniel Hernandez RodriguezFilmmaker Lars Von Trier challenges Jørgen Leth, the filmmaker behind The Perfect Human (1967), to remake his classic short under circumstances of increasing constraint.
- DirectorAnders Thomas JensenStarsUlrich ThomsenMads MikkelsenNicolas BroA neo-Nazi sentenced to community service at a church clashes with the blindly devoted minister.
- DirectorSusanne BierStarsMads MikkelsenSidse Babett KnudsenRolf LassgårdA manager of an orphanage in India is sent to Copenhagen, Denmark, where he discovers a life-altering family secret.
- DirectorPeter Schønau FogStarsJannik LorenzenJesper AsholtJulie KolbeckSouthern Jutland, DK, early 1970s: A dysfunctional family is burdened by an evil, self-righteous father, who manipulates his 11 y.o. son and 14 y.o. daughter with his repeated suicide threats.
- DirectorNiels Arden OplevStarsRosalinde MynsterPilou AsbækJens Jørn SpottagThe daughter of a Jehovah's Witness is forced to choose between religion and love when she falls for someone outside her faith.
- DirectorHenrik Ruben GenzStarsJakob CedergrenLene Maria ChristensenKim BodniaA thriller about a Copenhagen cop who moves to a small town after having a nervous breakdown.
- DirectorSusanne BierStarsMikael PersbrandtTrine DyrholmMarkus RygaardThe lives of two Danish families cross each other, and an extraordinary but risky friendship comes into bud. But loneliness, frailty and sorrow lie in wait.
- DirectorTorben BechOtto RosingStarsLars RosingAngunnguaq LarsenJulie BerthelsenA love-struck man discovers he has an incurable illness shortly after meeting the woman of his dreams.Greenland. :)