Movies: Bille August

Queen Margrethe II of Denmark and director Bille August showcase their meticulous attention to the sets and costumes of the "Ehrengard" film adaptation....

Aged 63, Karen Blixen is at the pinnacle of her fame and next in line to win the Nobel Prize for literature. It has been 17 years since she gave up her famous farm in Africa, only to return to Denmark with her life in ruins. Devastated by syphilis an...

Freetown Christiania, also known as Christiania, is an intentional community and commune of about 850 to 1,000 residents, covering 7.7 hectares (19 acres) in the borough of Christianshavn in the Danish capital city of Copenhagen. Christiania has been...

The television series was based on a play by Danish author Bjarne Reuter. In 1984 Reuter published his collection Tre skuespil ("Three Plays"); a collection containing also En dag i Hector Hansens liv ("A Day in the Life of Hector Hansen") and Kom de...

Denmark, 1961. Bjørn, a middle-class boy in his early teens, wants to be accepted by Steen, a bullying peer of his with wealthy but freezingly cold parents. Bjørn's other good friend is Mulle, a cheerful and more childish working-class boy. All three...

On a remote Italian island in the early 1960s, a teenage boy haunted by memories of the war falls in love with an older girl who holds a dark secret. Based on the novel "Tu, Mio," by Erri De Luca....

Martin, conductor of a symphonic orchestra, meet Barbara, violine player and they start a relationship. Five years later Martin starts to develop loss of memory and becomes more and more confused. Finally he is diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease and ...

About four young individuals that has been let down by their parents. They live an extroverted life together, searching for their identity, in constant defiance of the adult world....

A young man finds love and settles down, but when his young wife spirals into depression they both have decisions to make....

Harri is one of Sweden's many Finnish immigrant-workers. While in Sweden, the illiterate Harri marries and has a child. After accidentally killing a man in a fight, he flees back across the border to Finland and begins to pick up the pieces of his li...

An everyday story about a young girl from the countryside and the people she meets when she moves to the big city to train as a hairdresser....

A feature length documentary about fourteen year old Thomas, a psychotic and severely mentally handicapped young boy....

Filmed around the time of the 1989 Oscars this documentary includes interviews with foreign filmmakers from a variety of disciplines about their experiences working and living in Hollywood....

A young Dane has a movie date with a woman. He translates it into English because she does not speak Danish. The man's translation of the Danish movie for his non-fluent date runs afoul of aggressive audience members....

A look at the life of Italian fashion designer Gianni Versace who rose to fame in the late 1970s....