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Audiences rate it 14 points higher than critics do.
Synopsis
Kresten, newly wed, is on the threshold of a great career success in his father-in-law’s company. But when the death of his own father takes him back to his poverty-stricken childhood home, far out in the country, his career plans fall apart. For one thing he has to deal with his loveable, backward brother, who is now all alone; for another, he meets a stunning woman who comes to the farm as a housekeeper, in disguise of her real profession as a call-girl.
Ratings
IMDb7.1/10
Rotten Tomatoes74%
Metacritic57/100
Audiences rate it 14 points higher than critics do.
76 audience votes
Key crew
- Søren Kragh-JacobsenDirector
- Anders Thomas JensenWriter
- Søren Kragh-JacobsenWriter
- Christian SievertOriginal Music Composer
- Karl BilleOriginal Music Composer
- Thor BackhausenOriginal Music Composer
Cast
- Anders W. BerthelsenKresten
- Iben HjejleLiva
- Jesper AsholtRud
- Sofie GråbølClaire
- Emil TardingBjarke
- Anders HoveGerner
- Paprika SteenPernille
- Mette BratlannNina
- Susanne StormHanne
- Ellen HillingsøLykke
- Sidse Babett KnudsenBibi
- Sofie StougaardLady of bakery
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Themes
mentally disabledprostituterapedrowningcountrysidedenmarkfuneralcopenhagen, denmarkupper classcall girlmanagerboarding school