Flickering Lights

Flickering Lights

Blinkende lygter Director Anders Thomas Jensen

1 hr. 49 min. · Denmark, Sweden, 2000 · Crime, Comedy, Action · Danish · Subtitles: Lithuanian, English · N/A

About the film

Torkild is not doing well. He was already forty, and he had done nothing righteous yet. Like his friends, unable to even become professional thieves. Unexpectedly, fate offers them a chance. The "Faroese man," the king of the Faroe Islands' gangsters, instructs them to steal a suitcase full of money. Torkild and his friends do it, but decide to keep the stolen money for themselves and flee to Barcelona. But ... their car breaks down in the woods ... Fleeing the police and gangsters, they stay in an old dilapidated tavern. Torkildo doesn’t give up on the idea of repairing a tavern and opening a restaurant for stolen money. However, he has not yet settled accounts with his friends, the "Faroese man" and the local village trunks. This charming, grotesque gangster movie is reminiscent of the famous film “They Eat Dogs in China” (“I Kina spiser de hunde”) already shown on Scanorama.

Details

Running time
1 hr. 49 min.
Country, year
Denmark, Sweden, 2000
Genre
Crime, Comedy, Action
Language
Danish
Subtitles
Lithuanian, English
Age rating
N/A

Credits

Director
Anders Thomas Jensen
Screenplay
Anders Thomas Jensen
Cinematography
Eric Kress
Music
Bent Fabricius-Bjerre, Jeppe Kaas
Cast
Søren Pilmark, Ulrich Thomsen, Mads Mikkelsen, Nikolaj Lie Kaas
More information
www.imdb.com
Anders Thomas Jensen

Director

Anders Thomas Jensen

Director Anders Thomas Jensen was born in Denmark in 1972. He has written scripts for various Danish films, including the famous Dogma films, The King is Alive and Mifunes sidste sang. His short films Ernst and Light , "Wolf Gang" and "Election Night" were nominated for an Oscar, and "Election Night" was won. Anders Thomas Jensen also produces films.