Other Danish Media Adaptations Available via Streaming Services
- The Chestnut Man (dir. Kasper Barfoed and Mikkel Serup, 2019) "A young woman is found brutally murdered in a playground and one of her hands is missing. Above her hangs a small man made of chestnuts." (IMDB)
- The King's Game (dir. Nikolaj Arcel, 2004) "Election for the Danish parliament is up and the main opposition party has a chance at winning and its leader at becoming the next prime minister. The leader is hospitalized and the scheming begins." (IMDB)
- You Disappear (dir. Peter Schønau Fog, 2017) "Adapted from Christian Jurgersen's novel, a teacher's husband is caught embezzling from the school he headmasters after his brain tumor diagnosis." (Tubi)
Selected Danish Media Adaptations Available to Stream via Kanopy
The Silent Partner (dir. Daryl Duke, 1978)
Cullen (Elliott Gould) is a simple bank cashier. One day he is attacked and gives the bandit a few hundred dollars; he tells his superiors that the amount was $50,000 and keeps the difference. Reikle (Christopher Plummer), the robber, pursues Cullen to get the money back.
UCLA students, staff, and faculty access through Kanopy. Log into the campus VPN or proxy server to view video.
Babette's Feast (dir. Gabriel Axel, 1987)
At once a rousing paean to artistic creation, a delicate evocation of divine grace, and the ultimate film about food, the Oscar-winning Babette's Feast is a deeply beloved treasure of cinema. Directed by Gabriel Axel and adapted from a story by Isak Dinesen, it is the lovingly layered tale of a French housekeeper with a mysterious past who brings quiet revolution in the form of one exquisite meal to a circle of starkly pious villagers in late nineteenth-century Denmark. Babette's Feast combines earthiness and reverence in an indescribably moving depiction of sensual pleasure that goes to your head like fine champagne."
UCLA students, staff, and faculty access through Kanopy. Log into the campus VPN or proxy server to view video.
Pelle the Conqueror (dir. Bille August, 1987)
Lasse, an elderly and widowed farmer, and his young son Pelle, join a boat-load of immigrants to escape from impoverished rural Sweden to Denmark's Baltic island of Bornholm. They are employed at a large farm in Denmark, where they are treated as the lowest of the low. It is ultimately their loving relationship which sustains them through a difficult year.
UCLA students, staff, and faculty access through Kanopy. Log into the campus VPN or proxy server to view video.
Department Q: The Keeper of the Lost Causes (dir. Mikkel Nørgaard, 2013)
A shocking cold case heats up when maverick detective Carl Morck is put on the job in the riveting first film in the Department Q series.
UCLA students, staff, and faculty access through Kanopy. Log into the campus VPN or proxy server to view video.
Department Q: The Absent One (dir. Mikkel Nørgaard, 2014)
The brutal, 20-yr-old murder of a pair of twins is double the trouble for the detectives of Department Q in this 2nd installment in the blockbuster crime series.
UCLA students, staff, and faculty access through Kanopy. Log into the campus VPN or proxy server to view video.
Department Q: A Conspiracy of Faith (dir. Hans Petter Moland, 2016)
Department Q goes on the hunt for a serial killer when a desperate message, written in blood by two children, is found 14 years after they were kidnapped.
UCLA students, staff, and faculty access through Kanopy. Log into the campus VPN or proxy server to view video.
Word of God (dir. Henrik Ruben Genz, 2017)
Three brothers live at home where their father is the self-appointed God and rules in his robe. After deciding to write his memoirs — turning the home insane — the boys must fight their father's rule in a showdown with 'God'. The newest from award-winning madcap director Henrik Ruben Genz and based on the best selling novel.
UCLA students, staff, and faculty access through Kanopy. Log into the campus VPN or proxy server to view video.
Danish Media Adaptations Available Through UC Library Search
- Babette's Feast (dir. Gabriel Axel, 1987)
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At once a rousing paean to artistic creation, a delicate evocation of divine grace, and the ultimate film about food, the Oscar-winning Babette's Feast is a deeply beloved treasure of cinema. Directed by Gabriel Axel and adapted from a story by Isak Dinesen, it is the lovingly layered tale of a French housekeeper with a mysterious past who brings quiet revolution in the form of one exquisite meal to a circle of starkly pious villagers in late nineteenth-century Denmark. Babette's Feast combines earthiness and reverence in an indescribably moving depiction of sensual pleasure that goes to your head like fine champagne. - Ordet (dir. Carl Th. Dreyer, 1955)
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A farmer’s family is torn apart by faith, sanctity, and love—one child believes he’s Jesus Christ, a second proclaims himself agnostic, and the third falls in love with a fundamentalist’s daughter. Putting the lie to the term “organized religion,” Ordet (The Word) is a challenge to simple facts and dogmatic orthodoxy. Layering multiple stories of faith and rebellion, Dreyer’s adaptation of Kaj Munk’s play quietly builds towards a shattering, miraculous climax (Criterion). - Pelle the Conqueror (dir. Bille August, 1987)
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Lasse, an elderly and widowed farmer, and his young son Pelle, join a boat-load of immigrants to escape from impoverished rural Sweden to Denmark's Baltic island of Bornholm. They are employed at a large farm in Denmark, where they are treated as the lowest of the low. It is ultimately their loving relationship which sustains them through a difficult year. - A Royal Affair (dir. Nikolaj Arcel, 2013)A young queen, who is married to an insane king, falls secretly in love with her physician - and together they start a revolution that changes a nation forever.
- The Silent Partner (dir. Daryl Duke, 1978)
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Cullen (Elliott Gould) is a simple bank cashier. One day he is attacked and gives the bandit a few hundred dollars; he tells his superiors that the amount was $50,000 and keeps the difference. Reikle (Christopher Plummer), the robber, pursues Cullen to get the money back. - Smilla's Sense of Snow (dir. Bille August, 1997)When a young boy from Greenland falls from the top of the house Smilla lives in, she suspects that this was not an accident. As she begins to investigate, she is pulled deeper and deeper into a conspiracy that could very well mean her death.
- Word of God (dir. Henrik Ruben Genz, 2017)
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Three brothers live at home where their father is the self-appointed God and rules in his robe. After deciding to write his memoirs—turning the home insane—the boys must fight their father's rule in a showdown with 'God'. The newest from award-winning madcap director Henrik Ruben Genz and based on the best selling novel (Kanopy).
