
Peter Steen
Actor · 1936 – 2013 · Randers, Danmark
Peter Steen blev født i Randers i 1936. Han blev student i 1954 og studerede medicin et par år. I 1960 blev han optaget på Det kongelige Teaters elevskole, og i 1963 blev han ansat på teatret. I 1974 blev han freelance og spillede en lang række roller bl.a. på Rialto Teatret, Folketeatret og Odense Teater. Siden slutningen af 1970'erne har han været iscenesætter af en række teaterstykker. Han har været gift fire gange, bl.a. med væversken Kim Naver og skuespilleren Lisbet Lundquist. Hans erindringer "Tak skæbne" giver et klart indblik i hans liv og karriere.
Movies24
Movie6.5DramaA young Danish man, Christoffer, lives a life of joy and happiness with his wife Maria in Stockholm. When his father dies his mother insists that Christoffer take over management of the family industry which is in danger of bankruptcy. He is torn between his chosen life and his sense of duty to his family and its past. When he chooses to step in as manager his family life and self-respect languish.
Movie6.4DramaA powerful modern film narrative, set in a historical framework, about the crucial encounter between vulnerable eighteen-year-old Hans Christian Andersen, who rates himself so highly, and Mr. Meisling, the cynical school principal. An encounter that fundamentally transforms Hans Christian's life.
Movie6.8FamilyComedyThe boy Topper is bored. He finds a pencil that proves to have magical powers. Draw a rhino, and right away, you have a real rhino for a companion. A little heavy perhaps, when you live on the second floor. No matter, it's a modern fairy-tale of the baroque, and everything goes. Based on kiddie entertainment by Ole Lund Kirkegaard, but as was the case with the book, the fun is to be enjoyed by one and all.
Movie6.8ComedyTV MovieThis television film records Ingmar Bergman’s Copenhagen stage production of Molière’s The Misanthrope, presented as a guest performance at the Royal Danish Theatre. The play centers on Alceste, a man who rejects social hypocrisy and flattery, whose rigid principles are tested by his love for the socially adept Célimène.
MovieTV MovieComedyTroubadouren
1977
Movie6.6FamilyComedyA good looking female social welfare worker makes Egon Olsen forget about crimes for some time, but when an American gangster breaks into a local bank and the police think its Egon's work, he has to get back to work to prove he's innocent.
MovieDramaTV drama about Christen Kold and his ideas for independent schools, by Bent Grasten and Kirsten Stenbæk. The story is set in the village of Roemark in the latter half of the 19th century and recounts the events surrounding farmer Valdemar's establishment of the first independent school in Denmark, based on an idea conceived by Christen Kold.
Sofies skolegang
1977
Movie6.9DramaRomanceLate one evening Alex suddenly abandons his girlfriend, Simone, to pursue the beautiful Aimee. In his encounter with Aimee time and place dissolve for him and he becomes a stranger to Simone, to whom he cannot return.
Reconstruction
2003 · 87 votes
Movie7.0FamilyComedyThe first of 14 Olsen Gang films presents us with Egon Olsen, head of the gang, and his friends Benny and Kjeld, who want to become the best known gang in Denmark and eventually Europe by stealing a famous Bavarian work of art currently displayed in a Copenhagen museum. Although Egon's plan works out fine, there is only trouble ahead for the little gang.
Movie6.8FamilyComedyEgon plans to exploit knowledge gained during his latest term of incarceration. By stealing the unmanipulated financial records of DanInvest he obtains the majority of the stocks in the department store Magasin du Nord, just in time for their closing sale. The attempt to get the red suitcase that will save the day they rob the main vault at the EEC headquarters in Brussels and end up hijacking a tank.
Movie5.4ComedyCrimeThree young men discover a scam that three somewhat older gentlemen from Aarhus' upper class have set up to avoid bankruptcy. The gentlemen directors have both accounts and safe deposit boxes at the bank branch where one of the young men works, so it seems only natural to give the swindlers a taste of their own medicine, so to speak. The situation is further complicated when a journalist gets wind of the double heist and wants his share of the pie.
Kassen stemmer
1976 · 7 votes
Movie6.3ComedyIn this romantic drama, Niels (Jens Osterholm) is a petty thief and irresponsible lout who meets Lone (Yvonne Ingdal), a hospital lab assistant who is just the opposite of Niels. The two meet, fall in love, and must learn the old adage that opposites attract. The unenviable Niels and the model citizen Lone are helpless to fight their passionate chemistry when they are together.
To
1964 · 3 votes
Movie5.6ComedyFamilyFive young siblings deal with a reluctant chaperone when they wind up stranded on a trip to Egypt.
Movie7.7DramaIn the early 17th century, the tyrannical parish priest in Vejlby, Søren Jensen Quist, tries to force his daughter Maren into a lucrative marriage with the wealthy farmer Mikkel Ibsen. However, Maren prefers the bailiff. When Mikkel feels that both the bailiff and the priest are encroaching on his power, he arranges for the priest to be convicted and executed for the murder of Mikkel's brother, Nils Ibsen.
Præsten i Vejlby
1972 · 3 votes
Movie7.0FamilyComedyThe Olsen gang in Jutland. Ones again Egon Olsen has a plan when he gets out of Vridslose State Prison. He has found out that the Germans left a large sum of money (in American dollars and gold bars) in one of their commando bunkers, when they were defeated in 1945; the only problem it's in Jutland. Egon, Benny and Kjeld "appropriate" a car and drives to Jutland along with Kjelds wife and child Yvonne and Borge. They look forward to fooling the the people in Jutland, but of course, things don't go quite as planed. It ends with Benny, Kjeld, Borge and Yvonne sitting in the train back to Copenhagen, were they are overtaken by Egon in his car on the road next to the track. This is the last time the Olsen gang goes to Jutland.
Movie10.0DramaComedyAn adventurous Danish sailor falls in love with the beautiful French singer Christine in this romantic adventure. Chased by soldiers, he takes cover under beds and petticoats in order to escape capture. Several dance scenes highlight this musical comedy that uses a limited amount of sight gags.
Movie6.8ComedyCrimeThree out of work actors breaks into a bank through the toilet of a railroad station.
Movie6.5ComedyDramaThe action takes place in a theater, where actor and theater director Poul Bech is shot by his co-star Eva Berthelsen in the middle of a premiere. The script says he should be shot, but not with real bullets! Everyone at the theater seems to have a reason to want him dead. However, another murder must be committed before the killer can be found.
Mord for åbent tæppe
1964 · 4 votes
Movie8.0DramaBella's father died tragically, and now the teenage girl lives in close proximity to her mother, Maj. They protect each other from the outside world, so to speak, but one day the outside world knocks on their door. Maj meets a new man, and Bella becomes involved in helping a young Bosnian refugee obtain asylum. Has Maj let go of her daughter too soon? Is Bella capable of helping both herself and others?
Bella, min Bella
1996 · 1 votes
Movie6.4FamilyComedySusanne is going to the countryside to visit Ditmar. Ditmar has been abroad for over a year, and in the meantime, Susanne has given birth to Lulu without Ditmar's knowledge. Susanne's good friend and nanny, Andreas, accompanies her to the estate. Andreas and Lulu are assumed to be the butler and his daughter. Andreas agrees to the idea so that he can keep an eye on Susanne. However, Andreas falls in love with the daughter of the house, who believes he has a wife. At the same time, Susanne tries to tell Ditmar that Lulu is their child.
Movie6.3ComedyTaking place on a small villa road: The two neighbors Gormsen and Sandelund have been at a dispute for years and this evolves into an all out war. Sandelund is a wholesale dealer in meet, a capitalist and has one of this modem houses with a flat roof. Gormsen is a dentist, and a communist, he has a new wife that are younger then his son, and lives in one of these old-fashioned half-timbered houses. A third factor is the merchant Krause. To begin with he is a small time grocer and progresses into the end, a big time businessman. He is a deeply religious man, a good Christian, and member of the parochial church council. There children, (teenagers) find their conflict silly and stupid.
Movie6.6ThrillerCrimeA man decides to perpetrate a series of killings and publicise them as political acts in an attempt to protest against nuclear armaments.
Movie8.5MusicComedyBeing yourself – and above all your own master – that is what the film is about. After a short stay at a girls' home, Annie returns to society and has to adapt once again. It isn't long before Annie gets involved in a deadly fight and is even taken to the police station and brought before the court. Fortunately, one of the jurors takes an interest in her and offers to take care of her and give her a home. However, Annie cannot stand this home and runs away.
Jeg er sgu min egen
1967 · 2 votes
Movie6.5DramaThe story of the life of a political prisoner in a Russian gulag. Based on the book by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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TV7.3DramaCrimeRejseholdet is a Danish television crime series starring Charlotte Fich, Mads Mikkelsen and Lars Brygmann. Produced by Danmarks Radio, the program aired 32 episodes spanning four seasons from 2000 to 2004. Each episode revolved around an elite mobile police task force called "Unit One" that travels around Denmark helping local police solve crimes. Cases portrayed in the show were loosely based upon actual incidents of sensational crimes such as murders, kidnappings, cross-border sex traffic and child pornography. Rejseholdet won the 2002 International Emmy Award for best drama series.
TV8.0ComedyDramaThe series follows the residents of an apartment building on Copenhagen's Christianshavn, as they go about their daily lives and challenges. There is Olsen, a mover with an old fashion view of the world, Clausen who runs the local pet shop, Egon the career focused assistant, their wives who work hard to keep their spouses lives together, the young couple Tue and Rikke who recently moved in, the hard working caretaker Meyer, who never puts in to much effort, and of course Emma, the innkeeper of Rottehullet, where all the important decisions are made while running up the bar tab. The series was produced by Nordisk Film for Danmarks Radio TV station between the years 1970-77. The series' first director was Ebbe Langberg, then Erik Balling and Tom Hedegaard respectively. The series was conceived by an author team of well-known Danish authors such Leif Panduro, Benny Andersen, and Lise Nørgaard.
TV7.4DramaTAXA is a Danish television drama made by Danmarks Radio with 56 episodes, written by Stig Thorsboe and produced by Rumble Hammerich. The series revolves around a small taxi central, CrownTaxi, in Copenhagen. The series was a success from the start, 14 September 1997 on DR1. The series was broadcast during the period 1997-1999 for a total of five series. CrownTaxi has its ups and downs and in the course of the series, following the various drivers, radio opertor Lizzie and boss Verner Boye-Larsen. They have all their problems both with clients and family life and constantly threaten the show's villain Hermann from the competing taxi firm, City Car, which wants to take over the CrownTaxi. TAXA was also screened in Sweden on SVT1.
Taxa
1997 · 5 votes
TV8.0Skjulte spor
2000 · 1 votes
TV10.0CrimeCourt drama about a Copenhagen law office and the cases and personal entanglements of its small group of attorneys.
TV7.8CrimeDramaIn 1970s Denmark, the criminal police in a provincial town solve different criminal cases, when the police was dominated by men and DNA was not yet a tool in investigation.
TV9.0DramaMorten Korch - Ved stillebækken
1999 · 2 votes
TV8.5Crash - Truslen fra det sorte hul is a 1984 Danish children's science fiction TV-series which was written, directed and produced by Carsten Overskov and starred Lars Ranthe. Crash was produced and broadcast by the Danish Broadcasting Corporation and was also broadcast by the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation in Norway and by Sveriges Television in Sweden in summer 1985. It was a major production but was not successful in Denmark. Carsten Overskov published a book called Truslen fra det sorte hul, also in 1984. Some 20 years after the broadcast DR was given means to digitalize the series along with other Danish productions such as Tonny Toupé Show, Casper og Mandrilaftalen and Gotha.
Crash
1984 · 2 votes
TV7.7CrimeStrandvaskeren
1978 · 3 votes
TVComedyCrimeStation 13
1988
TV7.0DramaOne Big Family is a Danish television series in 12 episodes, first broadcast in 1982-1983. The series was directed by Bent Mejding, while the script was written in turns by Lise Nørgaard, Paul Hammerich and Jane Aamund. The series is produced by Nordisk Film for Danmarks Radio.
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Opfinderkontoret
1982
TV10.0Tre ludere og en lommetyv
1993 · 1 votes
TV7.0CrimeDramaSmuglerne
1970 · 2 votes
TV8.0Tyllefyllebølleby Banegård
1973 · 1 votes
TVDrama