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Tag Archives: Bille August
To Each His Own Cinema (2007)
A collective film of 33 shorts directed by different directors about their feelings about Cinema. Read More »
Return to Sender (2004) Bille August, Connie Nielsen, Aidan Quinn, Kelly Preston
Charlotte Cory is a young woman convict on Death Row who has built up a friendship with Frank Nitzche through mail correspondence Read More »
Marie Krøyer (2012) Bille August, Birgitte Hjort Sørensen, Søren Sætter-Lassen, Sverrir Gudnason
At the beginning of the 20th century, Marie is married to Denmark’s world famous painter P.S. Krøyer. Read More »
A Song for Martin (2001) Bille August, Sven Wollter, Viveka Seldahl, Reine Brynolfsson
Famous composer Martin meets concertmaster Barbara at one of his performances, and the two fall in love. Read More »
Goodbye Bafana (2007) Bille August, Joseph Fiennes, Dennis Haysbert, Diane Kruger
James Gregory once lived in a farm and had befriended a native youth, Bafana, and had even had a photograph taken with him. Read More »
The House of the Spirits (1993) Bille August, Jeremy Irons, Meryl Streep, Maria Conchita Alonso
Chile, second half of the 20th century. The poor Esteban marries Clara and they get a daughter, Blanca. Read More »
Night Train to Lisbon (2013) Bille August, Jeremy Irons, Mélanie Laurent, Jack Huston
This movie is about aging Swiss Professor Raimund Gregorius (Jeremy Irons) of classical languages who Read More »
Jerusalem (1996) Bille August, Maria Bonnevie, Ulf Friberg, Pernilla August
The beginning of the 20th century. Gertrud and Ingmar are in love with each other. Read More »
In My Life / Honning måne (1978) Bille August, Claus Strandberg, Kirsten Olesen, Jens Okking
A young man, Jens, gets a job in a Copenhagen factory. He lives with his mother and has been without a job for a while. Read More »
Smilla’s Sense of Snow (1997) Bille August, Julia Ormond, Ona Fletcher, Agga Olsen
Based on Peter Hoeg’s bestseller, this film is set in snowy Copenhagen where a small boy is found dead after he fell off a roof. Read More »
Pelle the Conqueror (1987) Bille August, Pelle Hvenegaard, Max von Sydow, Erik Paaske, Drama
The end of the 19th century. A boat filled with Swedish emigrants comes to the Danish island of Bornholm. Read More »
Les Misérables (1998) Bille August, Liam Neeson, Geoffrey Rush, Uma Thurman, Crime, Drama, History
Jean Valjean, a Frenchman imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a police officer named Javert. Read More »
Den goda viljan / Best Intentions (1992) Bille August, Samuel Fröler, Pernilla August, Max von Sydow, Biography, Drama, Romance
The story of Ingmar Bergman’s parents. In 1909, poor, idealistic theology student Henrik Bergman falls in love with Anna Åkerbloom, the intelligent, educated daughter of a rich family in Uppsala. After their wedding Henrik becomes a priest in the north of Sweden.
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