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1) Hamlet
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English
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Description
Presents the original text of Shakespeare's play side by side with a modern version, discusses the author and the theater of his time, and provides quizzes and other study activities.
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
Danish
Description
Critically acclaimed alcoholic actress Thea Barfoed has gone through turmoil, resulting in a divorce and the loss of custody of her two boys. Eager to break with the past, regain control over her life, and get her children back, she uses charm and manipulation to persuade her ex-husband, Christian, that she is able to take back the mantle of motherhood. But ironically, she has not completely convinced herself.
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Language
English
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Hamlet is commonly, regarded as one of the greatest plays ever written. Drawing on Danish chronicles and the Elizabethan vogue for revenge tragedy, Shakespeare created a play that is at once a philosophic treatise, a family drama, and a supernatural thriller. In the wake of his father's death, Prince Hamlet finds that his Uncle Claudius has swiftly taken the throne and married his mother, Queen Gertrude. The ghost of the dead king then, appears and...
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Language
English
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When veteran award-winning radio theater producer Joe Bevilacqua was a student in his final semester at Kean College in 1982, he produced and directed a radio version of Hamlet.
Casting Kean faculty and students, and portraying the melancholy Danish prince himself, Bevilacqua not only completed his nearly four-hour radio adaption of Shakespeare's greatest work, he did so while carrying a double major, producing, acting in, and sometimes writing radio...
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
Danish
Description
The passionate and forbidden romance between Johann Friedrich Struensee, the royal physician, and the young but strong-willed Queen Caroline Mathilda, wife of the mad Danish king Christian VII, leads to a revolution that changes an entire nation.
Series
Film Movement volume year 5, film 10
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
©2007
Language
Danish
Description
Ivan, an unusually optimistic preacher, takes in convicts to help around the remote, rural church to which he ministers. One of his helpers, Adam, is a vicious neo-Nazi serving community service time. Grasping the extent of Ivan's preternatutal determination to look on the bright side of everything, Adam decides to shake Ivan out of his rose-colored world.
Publisher
Acorn
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
Danish
Description
The personal and professional converge for DCI Dan Sommerdahl; his estranged wife, pathologist Marianne; and his best pal and partner, Detective Flemming Torp. Sommerdahl has devoted his life to protecting his beloved town, which has, unfortunately, cost him his marriage. But can he learn to accept, that his ex-wife is now in a relationship with Flemming?
Publisher
Genius Entertainment
Pub. Date
©2007
Language
Danish
Description
Jacob, a Danish expatriate, runs a struggling orphanage in one of India's poorest regions. Desperate to save the orphanage from closing, he returns to Denmark to meet Jorgen, a wealthy businessman and potential benefactor. Jorgen invites Jacob to his daughter's wedding, seemingly as a friendly gesture, but the terminally ill Jorgen is also trying to find a new husband for his wife Helene. When Jacob meets Helene, he recognizes her as a person from...
Publisher
Acorn
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
Danish
Description
DCI Dan Sommerdahl investigates murders in a lovely Danish coastal town with his best friend, Detective Flemming Torp, and his wife, Marianne, a criminal technician. But Dan's years of devotion to the job have hurt his marriage, and with Marianne wanting a divorce, Dan discovers his rival for her affections is none other than his best friend. And they all must still work together to solve crimes.
11) Torn curtain
Series
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
"World-famous American scientist Michael Armstrong, and his fiancee/assistant, Sarah Sherman, travel to Copenhagen for a physics conference. When Sarah mistakenly intercepts a message meant for Armstrong, she believes that he is secretly defecting to East Germany. Or is he? As Armstrong goes undercover to glean top-secret information, the couple find themslves running for their lives from enemy agents"--Container.
Publisher
[Distributed by] MPI Media Group
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
Danish
Description
Copenhagen, 1944. The exploits of Flame and Citron, a duo of assassins with the Danish resistance movement are becoming legendary. They begin by dispatching Danish collaborators and graduate to the occupying Nazis, after which the SS puts bounties on their heads. Their ultimate goal: Gestapo commandant Karl Heinz Hoffmann. As loyal Danes with a hatred of the Nazi occupation, they kill Danes who are collaborating. Flame seems empowered by killing,...
13) Borgen: Season 2
Publisher
MHz Networks Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
Danish
Description
In this second season of Denmark's blockbuster political drama, viewers continue to follow the country's first female Prime Minister, Birgitte Nyborg, her cynical spin doctor, Kasper Juul, the ambitious journalist, Katrine Fn̜smark and her more seasoned colleague, Hanne Holm. Birgitte has been Denmark's Prime Minister for two years - years that have taken their toll on her private life. She must now balance her role as PM with that of divorced single...
Publisher
[Acorn Media]
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
Danish
Description
"In the seaside Danish town of Elsinore, the personal and professional converge for DCI Dan Sommerdahl ... ; his estranged wife, criminal technician Marianne ... ; and his best pal and partner, Detective Flemming Torp ... . Separated after 25 years of marriage, Dan now asks for a divorce despite still being in love with Marianne. She, meanwhile, wants to rediscover herself--which gets complicated when Flemming, needing a place to stay and carrying...
15) Land of mine
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
Deutsch
Description
In the aftermath of World War II, a group of surrendered German soldiers are ordered by Allied forces to remove their own land mines from the coast of Denmark.
17) Teddy bear
Series
Film Movement volume 10, film 8
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
Danish
Description
Dennis, a painfully shy 38-year old body builder who would like to find true love, has never had a girlfriend and lives with his mother in a suburb of Copenhagen. When his uncle marries a woman from Thailand, Dennis decides to try his own luck on a visit to Pattaya as it seems love is easier to find there. Knowing his mother would never accept another woman in his life, he lies and tells her he is going to Germany for a competition. Pattaya turns...
Publisher
MHz Choice
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
Danish
Description
When a famous Danish gender activist and owner of Copenhagens first gender-neutral children's nursery is found murdered in Malm,̲ Saga is assigned to the case, together with a new colleague. The murder sparks the beginning of a series of spectacular crimes reaching back into Saga's own past.
19) Antichrist
Series
Criterion collection volume 542
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
In this graphic psychodrama, a grief-stricken man and woman retreat to a cabin deep in the woods after the accidental death of their infant son, only to find terror and violence at the hands of nature and, ultimately, each other. But this most confrontational work yet from one of contemporary cinema's most controversial artists is no mere provocation. It is a visually sublime, emotionally ravaging journey to the darkest corners of the possessed human...
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2004], c1990
Language
English
Description
Hamlet, a prince of medieval-era Denmark, senses treachery behind his royal father's death. His mother is all too dangerously entangled in that treachery. This film portrays Shakespeare's immortal tale of high adventure and evil deeds.
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