Movies: Jon Bang Carlsen

  • 1980
    Next Stop - Paradise

    Next Stop - Paradise (1980)

    Next Stop - Paradise

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    A former army officer befriends an elderly, poorly, lady and encourages her to enjoy reminiscing about her youthful days....

    Next Stop - Paradise
  • 1984
    The Element of Crime

    The Element of Crime (1984)

    The Element of Crime

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    Fisher, an ex-detective, decides to take one final case when a mysterious serial killer claims the lives of several young girls. Fisher, unable to find the culprit, turns to Osbourne, a writer who was once respected for his contributions to the field...

    The Element of Crime
  • 1977
    Jenny

    Jenny (1977)

    Jenny

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    The 76 year old Jenny Jespersen lives in Bovbjerg byt the west coast of Jutland in Denmark. She has a sober approach to life and a strong Christian faith. "A human with faith is like a bird without wings", she says. Poeticly the film shows Jenny and ...

    Jenny
  • 2015
    Født til Filmen

    Født til Filmen (2015)

    Født til Filmen

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    What are the consequences of a young person to be famous at an early age, being a public person? "Født til Filmen" is about the Danish actress Stine Bierlich's (1967 - 2007) life and career. Through interviews with herself, with her family - Ann Bie...

    Født til Filmen
  • 1988
    Baby Doll

    Baby Doll (1988)

    Baby Doll

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    A young woman goes on a vacation at an old farm, which once belonged to her deceased grandmother. Childhood traumas and the memories of her strict and authoritarian grandmother haunts the young woman and leads her to scary delusions and a mental brea...

    Baby Doll
  • 1991
    The Boys from St. Petri

    The Boys from St. Petri (1991)

    The Boys from St. Petri

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    A group of school-mates form a resistance group in nazi-occupied Denmark....

    The Boys from St. Petri
  • 2022
    Dreaming Arizona

    Dreaming Arizona (2022)

    Dreaming Arizona

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    Where does the dream begin and reality end? In Dreaming Arizona, this is the question both for the central figures and for the viewer. Known for his staged documentaries, Danish director Jon Bang Carlsen has five American teenagers from a small town ...

    Dreaming Arizona
  • 2007
    Blinde engle

    Blinde engle (2007)

    Blinde engle

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    Blinde engle
  • 1984
    Phoenix Bird

    Phoenix Bird (1984)

    Phoenix Bird

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    A staged documentary about an American ex-Vietnam soldier who teaches other Americans - men, women, children - to use weapons to defend themselves and obtain the possibility to say: "NO"....

    Phoenix Bird
  • 2015
    Déjà vu

    Déjà vu (2015)

    Déjà vu

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    To what extent does a director stay objective and anonymously hidden behind the camera? The Danish director Jon Bang Carlsen knows for sure that the choices he makes in his films aren’t accidental. Several excerpts from his own work show that events ...

    Déjà vu
  • 1988
    Time Out

    Time Out (1988)

    Time Out

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    Drama about a young Dane who has traveled to America to find the father he can hardly remember. In New Mexico he gets to know the daughter of a political-religious fanatic who runs a "survival school". The young Dane is interested in the girl and adm...

    Time Out
  • 2014
    Over the Roads, Over the River

    Over the Roads, Over the River (2014)

    Over the Roads, Over the River

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    Seven versions of Riga, the city on the Baltic Sea, and its features as seen by outstanding European film directors: Sergei Loznitsa (The Old Jewish Cemetery), Ivars Seleckis (On Ķīpsala), Audrius Stonys (Riga Boats), Jaak Kilmi (Littering Prohibited...

    Over the Roads, Over the River
  • 1985
    Ophelia Comes to Town

    Ophelia Comes to Town (1985)

    Ophelia Comes to Town

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    During a production of "Hamlet", the withdrawn lead actor and the girl playing Ophelia, who has just escaped a life of drugs and prostitution, spark an unlikely and low-key romance....

    Ophelia Comes to Town
  • 1995
    Carmen & Babyface

    Carmen & Babyface (1995)

    Carmen & Babyface

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    Set in 1962 during the Berlin crisis, the contented lifestyle of Carmen and her kid brother, whom she's nicknamed Babyface, comes to an abrupt end when their parents acrimoniously separate....

    Carmen & Babyface
  • 1975
    White man's seed

    White man's seed (1975)

    White man's seed

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    When the Indians occupied Wounded Knee in South Dakota in 1973 as a protest against the abuses of the white Americans, the Solvognen street theater organized an event in the center of Copenhagen: "Indians" were driven by "cavalrymen" towards Rådhuspl...

    White man's seed
  • 2013
    Just the Right Amount of Violence

    Just the Right Amount of Violence (2013)

    Just the Right Amount of Violence

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    In his new feature film Jon Bang Carlsen inserts the viewer into the affluent suburbs of Los Angeles, a world where families put on a brave face to mask the tension and turmoil at home. The kids are rebelling and the parents doesn’t know how to deal ...

    Just the Right Amount of Violence
  • 1996
    It's Now or Never

    It's Now or Never (1996)

    It's Now or Never

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    On the windswept planes of the Burren, fifty-something bachelor Jimmy McEvoy spends his days constructing dry stone walls and waiting for a call from the matchmaker, as he muses on life and love....

    It's Now or Never
  • 1996
    How to Invent Reality

    How to Invent Reality (1996)

    How to Invent Reality

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    Jon Bang Carlsen's essay about his way of approaching reality with a camera. Following the filming of "It's Now or Never", the story of an Irish bachelor's quest for love, Jon Bang Carlsen elaborates on how he manipulates reality in order to get to t...

    How to Invent Reality
  • 2001
    Portrait of God

    Portrait of God (2001)

    Portrait of God

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    Portrait of God is a documentary road movie about the manhunt for the most wanted person in the world. The film is constructed as a classic detective story. A middle-aged detective shadows the suspect through the highs and lows of South African socie...

    Portrait of God
  • 2015
    Cats in Riga

    Cats in Riga (2015)

    Cats in Riga

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    While current events are being discussed in the news and the residents of Riga are plagued by their everyday worries, cats are fully occupied with aimlessly wandering around staircases, offices, and apartments, completely indifferent to the absurd hu...

    Cats in Riga