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Flickering Lights
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Wikipedia article
'Flickering Lights' (Danish: 'Blinkende Lygter') is a 2000 Danish black comedy crime film directed and written by Anders Thomas Jensen, and starring Sren Pilmark, Mads Mikkelsen, Ulrich Thomsen, Iben Hjejle, and Nikolaj Lie Kaas.
Plot
Four small-time gangsters from Copenhagen trick a gangster boss: they steal over 4,000,000 Danish kroner which they were supposed to bring him. Trying to escape to Barcelona they are forced to stop in the countryside, in an old, wrecked house, hiding there for several weeks. Slowly, one after another, they realize that they would like to stay there, starting a new life, renovating the house and turning it into a restaurant. But their past eventually catches up with them.
Cast
* Sren Pilmark as Torkild
* Ulrich Thomsen as Peter
* Mads Mikkelsen as Arne
* Nikolaj Lie Kaas as Stefan
* Sofie Grbl as Hanne (Stefan's girlfriend)
* Iben Hjejle as Therese (Torkild's girlfriend)
* Ole Thestrup as Alfred (Hunter)
* Frits Helmuth as Carl (doctor)
* Peter Andersson as The Faroese
* Niels Anders Thorn as William
* Henning Jensen as Peters Father
* Solbjrg Hjfeldt as Peters Mother
Accolades
* 'Robert Festival 2001':
:Audience Award
:Best Cinematography
References
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