Bent Christensen (28 May 1929 – 6 January 1992) was a Danish film director, actor, film producer and screenwriter. His film Harry and the Butler (1961) was named Best Film at the Bodil Awards and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. His 1966 film Neighbours was entered into the 5th Moscow International Film Festival.
Lars von Trier challenges his mentor, filmmaker Jørgen Leth, to remake Leth’s 1967 short film The Perfect Human five times, each with a different set of bizarre and challenging rules.
Release Date:2003-11-07
Character:Gangster (from Det gode og det onde) (segment "Cartoon")
Vote Count:155
Release Date:1990-09-07
Character:FBS 1
Vote Count:1
Release Date:1983-04-30
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Episode Count:12
Vote Count:1
Following a nuclear power debate in Parliament, a shot rings out. Was the Minister of Energy the gunman's target? And who was the would-be assassin? Police and Secret Service come under pressure to solve the case quickly. In this clearly political thriller, implications of power abuse and trampling of citizens' right are rife, but one calm police inspector brings everything down to earth.
Release Date:1980-08-28
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:2
Release Date:1978-09-02
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Episode Count:6
Vote Count:2
Release Date:1977-10-17
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:5
Release Date:1977-04-09
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Episode Count:17
Vote Count:3
Jorden Er Flad or The Earth is Flat is based on the play Erasmus Montanus, from the classical era in Danish literature, by Ludvig Holberg. Director Henrik Stangerup had the play translated into Portuguese, and adapted it for filming in contemporary Brazil. In this comic movie, a group of villagers have scrimped and saved to send their fellow villager Erasmus Montanus (Fausto Wolff) away for an education. When the boy returns to his village, he is stuffed full of book-learning of a kind which is of absolutely no use to those of the village. The boy, rather than seeing his situation clearly, continues to spout learned platitudes, including the incredible observation, "the earth is round," supported by nothing other than his authority as an "educated man." Understandably, his posturing provokes derision.
Release Date:1977-03-19
Department:Editing
Job:Editorial Coordinator
Spøgelsestoget (English title: The ghost train) is a 1976 Danish family film directed by Bent Christensen. It is based on the 1923 play The Ghost Train by Arnold Ridley.
Release Date:1976-08-13
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Character:Stationsfunktionær
Vote Count:4
Release Date:1976-03-19
Vote Count:2
In the not too distant future, an overpopulated Earth government makes it illegal to have children for a generation. One couple, unsatisfied with their substitute robot baby, breaks the rules.
Release Date:1972-05-25
Character:Baby Shop Salesman
Vote Count:50
En gruppe unge mennesker ønsker at ændre samfundet, hvorfor de skærer hoved af en statue af Christian IV. Hovedet gemmes i arkivet hos direktør Lund, hvor Anna netop er blevet ansat. Anna lærer direktør Lund i at være ung og frigjort. Lund følger med men svigtes til sidst af gruppen. © Copyright 1997-2012, Lone Hansen & Per Kjær Fredborg
Release Date:1971-12-26
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Vote Count:2
Release Date:1971-08-19
Vote Count:2
Release Date:1971-04-16
Vote Count:2
In April 1940, the armies of Nazi Germany invaded Denmark. The Danish government promised peaceful cooperation on the condition that Denmark's Jews remained free. The Nazis agreed. In October 1943, the agreement was broken... This is the true and magnificent saga of Denmark's valorous actions to save Danish Jews from Nazi extermination at peril of death!
Release Date:1970-01-01
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:8
Release Date:1969-08-25
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:4
Release Date:1968-11-11
Department:Production
Job:Producer
The main character is a little boy, whose sick grandfather lives in the attic. Every time the grandfather wants something, he hits his stick in the floor, which makes the boy believe his grandfather is a stick. The film deals with misunderstandings between adults and children, since children can perceive things differently than adults.
Release Date:1968-10-14
Department:Production
Job:Producer
Vote Count:1
A crime-series in six parts. A woman has been killed in a apartment. The murder squad are on the case.
Release Date:1967-09-09
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Episode Count:6
Vote Count:2
Seeking revenge against the rival clan responsible for the killing, Hagbard, the son of a slain Norse king, calms down long enough to establish a truce. He also falls in love with Signe, the daughter of his one-time enemy. Signe's former beau, sizzling with jealousy, breaks the truce and makes it appear that Hagbard was responsible.
Release Date:1967-01-16
Department:Production
Job:Producer
Vote Count:11
Taking place on a small villa road: The two neighbors Gormsen and Sandelund have been at a dispute for years and this evolves into an all out war. Sandelund is a wholesale dealer in meet, a capitalist and has one of this modem houses with a flat roof. Gormsen is a dentist, and a communist, he has a new wife that are younger then his son, and lives in one of these old-fashioned half-timbered houses. A third factor is the merchant Krause. To begin with he is a small time grocer and progresses into the end, a big time businessman. He is a deeply religious man, a good Christian, and member of the parochial church council. There children, (teenagers) find their conflict silly and stupid.
Release Date:1966-03-07
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:8
I en lille provinsby residerer bankdirektør L.W. Jacobsen. Han er ikke særlig interesseret i sin kone, Elsebeth, men derimod i lærerinde og byrådsmedlem frk.Mortensen. Thorsen, byens manufakturhandler er medlem af samme byrådsgruppe som Jacobsen. Så kommer Don Olsen til byen. Olsen er ikke interesseret i det pænere borgerskab, men derimod i mennesker. Ved et tilfælde mødes Thorsen og Olsen og snart drikker de dus. Thorsen slæber ud på natten mælkemandens hest med hjem i lejligheden. Skandalen er en realitet. Thorsen vil flygte, men med Olsens hjælp bejler han i stedet til byens borgere og frk.Mortensen under mottoet "Gør gode tider bedre"
Release Date:1964-12-18
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Vote Count:10
South of Tana River is a 1963 Danish family film directed by Bent Christensen and starring Poul Reichhardt.
Release Date:1963-12-20
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Character:Dupont
Vote Count:1
Release Date:1963-02-25
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:4
A group of better-off thirty-somethings meet for a weekend in Knud and Beth's home. The host couple is prone to bickering regularly. The married couples (Jan and Ilse, and Kjeld and Tove) that are visiting understand and try to stay out of the way. Bachelor Lars, however, comes into his own and is a constant source of provocative comments.
Release Date:1962-10-29
Department:Production
Job:Producer
Vote Count:6
The story begins when Toby (Ivan Jackson), a young English businessman, arrives in South Africa to take charge of a publishing firm. He knows little about apartheid and so at first sees no contradiction in developing a relationship with an elite, upper-class white woman and with a woman dedicated to fighting apartheid. But as Toby makes friends with one of the black South Africans (Zaku Mokae), and as he registers both the subtle and more obvious, deep-seated racial prejudices of the minority white population, some of the truth of the oppression here begins to dawn. That is brought to a head when tragedy strikes.
Release Date:1962-10-04
Department:Production
Job:Producer
Vote Count:8
Danish comedy film directed by Bent Christensen
Release Date:1962-08-06
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:5
A gentle comedy offering the promise of easy social consensus. Harry (Helmuth) is a simple old-time shop porter offered a chance at self-realisation when he's bequeathed a sum by an unknown relative (via several levels of fiscal blood suckers). He decides to engage a butler to take good care of him for a time. This is a man of distinguished upper class service, but a generous nature which happily integrates with Harry's small but colourful world of drinking buddies and crackpot neighbourhood kids.
Release Date:1961-09-07
Department:Crew
Job:Script
Vote Count:16
Release Date:1960-09-30
Department:Production
Job:Producer
Vote Count:7
Shipping broker Landheim tries to save a failing theater, but falls in love. Is the broker a journalist, and the actress a prima donna? Who knows?
Release Date:1960-08-18
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Vote Count:1
Release Date:1959-10-16
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:2
Release Date:1959-08-03
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:3
A just-fired chorus girl gets a ride from a rich shipowner's driver. By the time the gossip reaches the cash-strapped theater director, she's engaged to the shipowner. The girl gets promoted to the lead. Other misunderstandings follow.
Release Date:1958-11-24
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:5
Semi documentary on a famous cycle race in Copenhagen. The story is about the competition between the riders as well as about their private and marital struggles.
Release Date:1958-08-18
Vote Count:1
Release Date:1957-10-21
Character:Danseinstruktør
Vote Count:3
A fresh faced country boy comes to Copenhagen looking for a job and falls in with a group of hoodlums who use him as bait to lure older gay men they can rob and blackmail.
Release Date:1957-08-22
Character:Kaj
Vote Count:7
The Danish Ingen tid til Kaertegn (Be Dear to Me) is heavily reliant on the appeal of its star, 8-year-old Eva Cohn. Our heroine is the neglected child of a businessman father and actress mother. Feeling that happiness lies well outside her own backyard, Eva goes on a search for that happiness. The longer she stays away, the more her parents realize that they've unfairly ignored her. The plot is nothing new: it's what is done with it that pleases the eye and ear. Ingen tid til Kaertegn was one of the more popular entries in the 1957 Berlin Film Festival.
Release Date:1957-03-01
Vote Count:5
Release Date:1955-02-17
Character:Johan Ludvig Sørensen
Vote Count:5
Fourteen-year-old Jan and his companion Erling appear as extras in a film being filmed at Nordisk Film's studios in Valby. A mysterious burglary at the studio's fine mechanics workshop gives the two healthy boys the opportunity to act as detectives.
Release Date:1954-04-19
Character:Instruktørassistent
Release Date:1954-03-01
Vote Count:1
The beautiful and spoiled manufacturer's daughter Helga defiantly bets with her friends whether she can survive a whole year as a working housekeeper without financial help.
Release Date:1953-02-02
Character:Erik