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29 Jan – 8 Feb 2026

Ulrich Thomsen

Ulrich THOMSEN (1963, Denmark) graduated from the Danish National School of Theatre and Contemporary Dance in 1993. He was in several theatre productions in Copenhagen before his feature debut, starring in Ole Bornedal’s Nightwatch (2014). Thomsen became known worldwide for his role in Thomas Vinterberg’s arthouse hit Festen (1998), for which he received his first Best European Actor nomination at the European Film Academy Awards. Thomsen made his directorial debut as a writer, director and producer with In Embryo (2016). Gutterbee (2019) is the second feature he directed and wrote.

Filmography

In Embryo (2016), Gutterbee (2019)

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Ulrich Thomsen at IFFR

  • Clash of Egos

    Satirical comedy in which a touchy divorced father wants to take his kids to the cinema, but finds himself in the wrong art film. When he wants to

  • Max

    Munich, 1918. The rich Jewish art dealer Max Rothman (John Cusack) meets the disillusioned soldier Adolf Hitler (Noah Taylor), who wants to learn t

  • Gutterbee

    Dry, layered comedy about Trump’s racist America in which a bipolar, German sausage maker wants to open a restaurant in small-town America.

  • Festen

    What should have been a grand family feast turns into a painful confrontation. Brilliant acting and intense photography in this drama which was sen