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Pub. Date
2019
Description
I am learning Danish : 300 essential words and phrases, 140 common expressions, the 100 most common verbs, the 1000 essential danish words. Danish (dansk) is a North Germanic language spoken by around six million people, principally in Denmark. How to learn a language differently ? Today, language learning is revolutionizing : you do not have to go to traditional language classes anymore. Our learning method : a selection of hundreds of phrases and...
3) The hunt
Pub. Date
2013.
Description
Lucas is a former school teacher who has been forced to start over having overcome a tough divorce and the loss of his job. Just as things are starting to go his way, his life is shattered when an untruthful remark throws his small community into a collective state of hysteria. As the lie spreads, Lucas is forced to fight a lonely fight for his life and dignity.
Description
In this second season of Denmark's blockbuster political drama, viewers continue to follow the country's first female Prime Minister, Birgitte Nyborg, her cynical spin doctor, Kasper Juul, the ambitious journalist, Katrine F?nsmark and her more seasoned colleague, Hanne Holm. Birgitte has been Denmark's Prime Minister for two years - years that have taken their toll on her private life. She must now balance her role as PM with that of divorced single...
Series
Pub. Date
1987.
Description
With the mysterious arrival of Babette, a refugee from France's civil war, life for two pious sisters and their tiny hamlet begins to change. Before long, Babette has convinced them to try something other than boiled codfish and ale bread--a gourmet French meal! Her feast scandalizes the elders, except for the visiting General. Just who is this strangely talented Babette, who has terrified this pious town with the prospect of losing their souls for...
Pub. Date
[2007]
Description
Jacob runs a struggling orphanage in one of India's poorest regions. Desperate to save an 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.
10) Another round
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
Four friends, all high school teachers, test a theory that they will improve their lives by maintaining a constant level of alcohol in their blood.
11) Babette's feast
Series
Pub. Date
2013.
Description
At once a rousing paean to artistic creation, a delicate evocation of divine grace, and the ultimate film about food, the Oscar-winning Babette's Feast is 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.
12) A Royal Affair
Pub. Date
2013
Description
The passionate and forbidden romance between the insane Danish King, the royal physician, and the young but strong-willed Queen leads to a revolution that changes an entire nation.
Pub. Date
2013.
Description
Explores the insular world of high-stakes Danish politics and the press corps that covers it in instantaneous, relentless news cycles. Birgitte Nyborg becomes Prime Minister of Denmark through a political fluke and has to learn the ways of power, quickly. She's an altruistic public servant in an old boys club and must master the art of the deal overnight, manage her image and perform the impossible juggling act of maintaining a family life.
14) Flee
Pub. Date
[2022]
Formats
Description
Animated documentary about Amin Nawabi, who decides to reveal a secret from his past before marrying his husband and share his story about fleeing from Afghanistan to Denmark as a young child with his mother and siblings.
Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
DCI Dan Sommerdahl investigates murders in a lovely Danish coastal town with his best friend, Detective Flemming Torp, and his wife, Marianne, a criminal technician. But Dan's years of devotion to the job have hurt his marriage, and with Marianne wanting a divorce, Dan discovers his rival for her affections is none other than his best friend. And they all must still work together to solve crimes.
Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
When the skeletons of four young women are found buried in in the woods outside of Copenhagen, ambitious and headstrong Inspector Katrine Ries Jensen and Thomas Schaeffer, a reclusive and cerebral forensic psychiatrist, are drawn into a perilous hunt for just such a monster, a killer who strikes according to a pattern which is at first impenetrable.
Pub. Date
2022
Description
In the seaside Danish town of Elsinore, the personal and professional converge for DCI Dan Sommerdahl; his estranged wife, criminal technician Marianne; and his best pal and partner, Detective Flemming Torp. Separated after 25 years of marriage, Dan now asks for a divorce despite still being in love with Marianne. She, meanwhile, wants to rediscover herself which gets complicated when Flemming, needing a place to stay and harboring a torch for Marianne,...
Series
Pub. Date
c2014
Description
"Thriller about a special law enforcement unit set up to fight cross-border crime and terrorism across Scandinavia and Europe. Charismatic detective Hallgrim Hallgrimsson (Jens Albinus) assembles a team of investigators equipped with the most advanced technology and high-tech weapons. Nicknamed "The Eagle" for his unerring intuition, Hallgrim exudes confidence and self-assurance; but behind the dynamic facade lies a tormented personality"--From publisher...
Pub. Date
[2010]
Description
Copenhagen, 1944. The exploits of Flame and Citron, a duo of assassins with the Danish resistance movement are becoming legendary. They begin by dispatching Danish collaborators and graduate to the occupying Nazis, after which the SS puts bounties on their heads. Their ultimate goal: Gestapo commandant Karl Heinz Hoffmann. As loyal Danes with a hatred of the Nazi occupation, they kill Danes who are collaborating. Flame seems empowered by killing,...