Nils Malmros
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Nils Malmros at IFFR
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Christmas by Your Friends
Young Mads wants to throw a Christmas party – which might include things counter to the season’s spirit. A fable on compromises and ill
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Beauty and the Beast
Mette is sixteen and driving her dad mad – partly with jealousy. A head-first dive into the twisted realms of hebephilia as a study of intert
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Pain of Love
Scenes from the life of Kirsten, from her teenage days to early adulthood. How she discovers sex and men; how one guy after another is a disappoint
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Boys
A film in three movements about boys growing (but not necessarily maturing) into men. From getting a basic notion of it, through first personal exp
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Barbara
Malmros’s only film not rooted in his own life experiences, but based on a novel – Jørgen-Frantz Jacobsen’s eponymous classic. A
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Facing the Truth
Malmros’ father Richard was a famous neurosurgeon who became embroiled in a scandal when it became public that, during the German occupation
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Tree of Knowledge
Late-1950s Århus. Elin already knows more about love than other boys and girls in her class – which puzzles/attracts the former and makes the
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Aching Hearts
Jonas and Agnete commit to one another while still at school. As others shyly experiment with first love and desire and make tacit attempts at more
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Sorrow and Joy
When filmmaker Johannes returns from a lecture one evening, he finds the house in mourning and terror: his wife has killed their baby. A meditation
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Århus by Night
A film about filmmaking, and a portrait of Malmros’s centre of the world: Århus. Also a trenchant look at 1970s Denmark – surface permi