Gabriel Axel

19th Century Joy of Cooking. Babette is a French cook that flees from her home to Danish village. Fun, let alone the joy of food, is not part of village until Babette starts cooking. (DuaneNeitzel)

This re-telling of Hamlet goes back to the original Danish source material. The opening scenario remains the same: Hamlet's father murdered by his brother who then weds the widowed mother. (imdb)

3 friends and actors out of job decide to try to rob a bank. But to do so they must show their best acting skills, as the break-in must be done in daytime and through the wall in a public toilet.

The story, based on an ancient legend, concerns Hagbard (Oleg Vidov), the son of a slain Norse king. Seeking revenge against the rival clan responsible for the killing, Hagbard calms down long enough to establish a truce. (allmovie.com)

A look at what happened when Denmark abolished censorship in the late 1960s. (imdb)

A poet moves to a laid-back community quite different from life in Copenhagen. Different characters live in strange "buildings". The land developer/owner decides to bulldoze the community. Will they find a peaceful solution? (imdb)

A young couple follows problems with eroticism at different times and in different environments.

The Iversen family is on the verge of bankruptcy. When all the family members are fired from their jobs, one after another, when most of the furniture is confiscated , the telephone blocked, the electricity cut off, and when the bailiff wants to sell the house by auction, something has to be done. To solve their economic problems, Charles Iversen, the father of the family, decides to become a conman. To set off his new venture he needs 1500 kroner as a start-up, and goes to a loan shark called L

Now the family has come to the top steps of the socially equitable, but unexpected demands from the tax administration mean that a forced sale is at the door. That is why they start with the largest number so far: to defraud Fidusbanken.

On the idyllic Birkø lives Christian a parish executive officer. He is a brave and honest man, happily married to Martha, and this couple has a son called Theo and he will once take over the farm. (imdb)