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Publisher
Genius Products
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
1 DVD (119 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Jacob runs a struggling orphanage in one of India's poorest regions. Desperate to save the orphanage from closing, he returns to Denmark to meet Jorgen, a wealthy businessman and potential benefactor. What appears to be nothing more than a friendly gesture to attend a wedding sets in motion an increasingly devastating series of surprises, revelations, and confessions that will forever change their lives.
2) Hamlet
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 182 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Prince Hamlet plots revenge after he discovers his uncle murdered his father, the king. This production of Shakespeare's masterpiece from Britain's renowned Royal Shakespeare Company was filmed on location rather than in the theatre. No recent stage production in Britain has attracted the excitement and nearly unanimous critical praise as this Hamlet. Dynamic, exciting, and contemporary, it breathes new life into Shakespeare's greatest play.
Series
Film Movement volume 5, film 10
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
1 DVD (94 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Ivan, an unusually optimistic preacher, takes in convicts to help around the remote, rural church to which he ministers. One of his helpers, Adam, is a vicious neo-Nazi serving community service time. Grasping the extent of Ivan's preternatutal determination to look on the bright side of everything, Adam decides to shake Ivan out of his rose-colored world.
Publisher
Oscilloscope Laboratories
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (102 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
After a Copenhagen cop is punished with a transfer to a small village, he discovers that the local people are covering up many dark secrets. Set to take up the mysteriously vacated job of town marshal, Robert quickly finds himself mixed up in a community governed by its own rules. Robert's big-city temperament makes it impossible for him to fit in, or to understand the uncivilized behavior displayed by the townspeople: the sultry blond femme fatale,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Books
Description
Confronted with evidence that his uncle murdered his father, and with his mother’s infidelity, Hamlet must find a means of reconciling his longing for oblivion with his duty as avenger. The ghost, Hamlet’s feigned madness, Ophelia’s death and burial, the play within a play, the “closet scene” in which Hamlet accuses his mother of complicity in murder, and breathtaking swordplay are just some of the elements that make Hamlet an enduring masterpiece...
7) Hamlet
Author
Description
The play, set in the Kingdom of Denmark, recounts how Prince Hamlet exacts revenge on his uncle Claudius for murdering the old King Hamlet (Claudius's brother and Prince Hamlet's father) and then succeeding to the throne and marrying Gertrude (the King Hamlet's widow and mother of Prince Hamlet).
8) The charmer
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (102 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
As the time on his immigrant visa is running out, a young Iranian man is desperately trying to find a woman that could gain him the right to stay in Denmark.
Series
Criterion collection volume 665
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
©2013
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (ca. 103 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A rousing paean to artistic creation, a delicate evocation of divine grace, and the ultimate film about food. A 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. Adapted from a story by Isak Dinesen.
11) Speak no evil
Publisher
RLJE Films
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (98 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
One family accepts an invitation to the rural home of another they met on vacation, only to find their lives altered in unexpected, deeply horrifying ways.
12) Day of wrath
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2001
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (97 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Set in the seventeenth century, this is the story of Anne, a young wife who is revolted when her husband, an elderly pastor, has an old woman burned at the stake as a witch. She tells her husband that she and his son are in love and that she wishes him dead. The pastor then dies of a stroke and Anna is accused of killing him by witchcraft. Deserted by the cowardly son and reviled by the pastor's shrewish mother, Anne is offered an opportunity to take...
14) Fighter
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (97 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Aicha, a Copenhagen high school senior from Turkey, wants to become a champion Kung Fu fighter, despite the obsticals in her way.
15) The good traitor
Publisher
Samuel Goldwyn Films
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (115 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Dramatized story about Henrik Kauffmann, the Danish ambassador to the United States during World War II, who continued to support the Allied cause after Germany occupied Denmark in 1940.
Author
Series
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
xl, 338 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Description
This Norton Critical Edition includes: • The Second Quarto text, edited by Robert S. Miola and accompanied by his footnotes, headnotes, and introductory materials. • Eighteen illustrations from 1604 to 2008, three of them new to the Second Edition. • The Actors’ Gallery, presenting actors―from Sarah Bernhardt and Ellen Terry to Kenneth Branagh and David Tennant, two of them new to the Second Edition―reflecting on their roles in major productions...
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2000
Physical Desc
1 DVD (121 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
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.
18) Land of mine
Publisher
Columbia Tristar
Pub. Date
2017
Physical Desc
1 DVD (110 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In the aftermath of World War II, a group of surrendered German soldiers are ordered by Allied forces to remove their own landmines from the coast of Denmark.
19) Torn curtain
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (2 hr., 8 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"World-famous American scientist Michael Armstrong, and his fiancee/assistant, Sarah Sherman, travel to Copenhagen for a physics conference. When Sarah mistakenly intercepts a message meant for Armstrong, she believes that he is secretly defecting to East Germany. Or is he? As Armstrong goes undercover to glean top-secret information, the couple find themslves running for their lives from enemy agents"--Container.
20) Hamlet
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2004], c1990.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (135 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Hamlet, a prince of medieval-era Denmark, senses treachery behind his royal father's death. His mother is all too dangerously entangled in that treachery. This film portrays Shakespeare's immortal tale of high adventure and evil deeds.
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