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Anders Thomas Jensen

Anders Thomas Jensen

Danish film director, screenwriter and actor
April 6, 1972 (51 years old)

The Promised Land

V.O.: Bastarden
Dan. 2023. Biography by Nikolaj Arcel with Mads Mikkelsen, Amanda Collin, Kristine Kujath Thorp. In the mid-17th century, the trials and tribulations of an ambitious Danish explorer and his loyal wife.
Runtime: 120 min.

Riders of Justice

V.O.: Retfaerdighedens Ryttere
Dan. 2020. Dramatic comedy by Anders Thomas Jensen with Mads Mikkelsen, Nikolaj Lie Kaas, Andrea Heick Gadeberg. To eliminate the gang leader who is believed to be responsible for his wife’s death, a military man enlists the help of a neurotic statistician and two unstable hackers.
Runtime: 116 min.
U.S. 2017. Adventures by Nikolaj Arcel with Idris Elba, Matthew McConaughey, Tom Taylor. A boy finds himself transported to another dimension where a knight battles an overpowering devil for the preservation of a mythical tower on which the survival of our world depends.
Runtime: 95 min.

Men & Chicken

V.O.: Maend & hons
Dan. 2015. Dramatic comedy by Anders Thomas Jensen with David Dencik, Mads Mikkelsen, Nikolaj Lie Kaas. A depressed bachelor and his sex-obsessed brother visit their father who lives on a remote island with his three other strange sons.
Runtime: 104 min.

A Second Chance

V.O.: En Chance Til
Dan. 2014. Drama by Susanne Bier with Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Maria Bonnevie, Ulrich Thomsen. Shaken by the death of his baby, which plunged his wife into despair, a police officer secretly exchanges the baby's corpse for the abused child of a junkie couple.
Runtime: 102 min.
Dan. 2014. Western by Kristian Levring with Mads Mikkelsen, Eva Green, Jeffrey Dean Morgan. In the Wild West, an honest Danish settler, who has avenged the death of his wife and son at the hands of mobsters, is in turn hunted down by their leader.
Runtime: 92 min.

Love Is All You Need

V.O.: Den Skaldede Frisor
Dan. 2012. Sentimental comedy by Susanne Bier with Trine Dyrholm, Pierce Brosnan, Molly Blixt Egelind. In Italy, the marriage of the daughter of a Danish hairdresser in remission from cancer and the son of a widowed English businessman is disrupted by various romantic intrigues.
Runtime: 116 min.

In a Better World

V.O.: Haevnen
Dan. 2010. Drama by Susanne Bier with Markus Rygaard, William Johnk Nielsen, Mikael Persbrandt. A kid who is bullied at school befriends a student who has become withdrawn and violent since the death of his mother.
Runtime: 118 min.

Adam's Apples

V.O.: Adams Aebler
Dan. 2005. Comedy by Anders Thomas Jensen with Ulrich Thomsen, Mads Mikkelsen, Nicolas Bro. Convicted of a minor crime, a violent neo-Nazi serves his sentence in a church run by a priest with unshakeable faith.
Runtime: 93 min.

The Green Butchers

V.O.: Grønne slagtere, De
Dan. 2003. Satire by Anders Thomas Jensen with Mads Mikkelsen, Nikolaj Lie Kaas, Line Kruse. Two butchers who have just opened their business are asked to offer marinated human meat to their customers.
Runtime: 100 min.

Flickering Lights

V.O.: Blinkende lygter
Dan. 2000. Comedy by Anders Thomas Jensen with Soren Pilmark, Ulrich Thomsen, Mads Mikkelsen. Rather than handing over the proceeds of their robbery to their sponsor, four Danish thieves use the money to renovate a run-down restaurant.
Runtime: 109 min.

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