Archive of films Flickering Lights / Blinkende lygter
Denmark
2000, 109 min
Section:
Variety Critics´ Choice
Year: 2001
Synopsis
Torkild (Soren Pilmark), the leader of a gang of petty thieves in Copenhagen, wants to score one final crime that will allow him a life of leisure abroad. Lady Luck visits him in the form of the Man From Faro (Peter Andersson), a hard criminal who employs him and three cronies to steal 4 million Danish kroner. The quartet decides to make a run for it to Barcelona. On the way, however, their car breaks down and they discover an old abandoned house that was once a restaurant. Torkild gets the idea of rebuilding it.In a series of flashbacks, Jensen (who wrote In China They Eat Dogs and Mifune) depicts the awful families in which the four grew up and their gravitation toward gang life as a substitute. Gunnar Rehlin
About the film
Black & white, 35 mm
Section: | Variety Critics´ Choice |
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Director: | Anders Thomas Jensen |
Screenplay: | Anders Thomas Jensen |
Dir. of Photography: | Eric Kress |
Music: | Bent Fabricius-Bjerre, Jeppe Kaas |
Editor: | Anders Villadsen |
Producer: | Tivi Magnusson, Kim Magnusson |
Production: | M and M Productions |
Cast: | Soren Pilmark, Mads Mikkelsen, Nikolaj Lie Kaas, Ulrich Thomsen, Sofie Grabol, Iben Hjejle |