DENMARK – rarefilmm | The Cave of Forgotten Films

THE LAST GREAT WILDERNESS (2002)

Jon W. — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 08:46:36 +0000

Two men meet while travelling north on separate missions. Charlie wants to catch up with the man who has stolen his wife, while Vicente is trying to escape a contract castration. After their car breaks down, they seek sanctuary in an isolated building home to a strange sect whose whole equilibrium is threatened by the arrival of the two men. The result is chaos.

Director: David Mackenzie.
Writers: Michael Tait, Alastair Mackenzie, Gillian Berrie, David Mackenzie, Jack Lothian (uncredited).
Stars: Alastair Mackenzie, Jonny Phillips, Ewan Stewart, David Hayman, Victoria Smurfit, Louise Irwin, Jane Stenson, John Comerford, Ford Kiernan, Sheila Donald, Martin Bell, Jack Marsden, Clare Kerrigan, Gerard Horan, William Harris, Stephen McRobbie, Katrina Mitchell, Eugene Kelly, Bill Wells, Tom Crossley, Allison Mitchell, Liz Dew.
Cinematographer: Simon Dennis.
Composer: The Pastels.

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101 REYKJAVÍK (2000)

Jon W. — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 22:01:15 +0000

Thirty-year-old Hlynur still lives with his mother and spends his days drinking, watching porn and surfing the net while living off unemployment checks. A girl is interested in him, but he stands back from commitment. His mother’s Spanish flamenco teacher, Lola, moves in with them for Christmas. On New Year’s Eve, while his mother is away, Hlynur finds out Lola is a lesbian, but also ends up having sex with her. He soon finds out he and his mother are sharing more than a house. Eventually he must find out where he fits into the puzzle, and how to live life less selfishly.

Director: Baltasar Kormákur.
Writers: Hallgrímur Helgason (novel), Baltasar Kormákur.
Stars: Victoria Abril, Hilmir Snær Guðnason, Hanna María Karlsdóttir, Þrúður Vilhjálmsdóttir, Baltasar Kormákur, Ólafur Darri Ólafsson, Þröstur Leó Gunnarsson, Eyvindur Erlendsson, Halldóra Björnsdóttir, Hilmar Jonsson, Jóhann Sigurðarson, Edda Heidrún Backman, Gudmundur Thorvaldsson, Gunnar Eyjólfsson, Jónína Ólafsdóttir, Halldór Gylfason, Pétur Einarsson, Ingibjörg Gunnarsdóttir, Berglind Steinarsdóttir, Gunnar H. Gunnarsson, Sigríður Helgadóttir, Inga Maria Valdimarsdóttir, Agnar Jón Egilsson, Rósi Hattari, Atli Rafn Sigurðsson, Guðrún María Bjarnadóttir, Lilja Nótt Þórarinsdóttir, Benedikt Ingi Armannsson, Monica Abendroth, Sigurður Pálmi Sigurbjörnsson, Ólafur Evert Ulfsson, Guðrún Ósk Maríasdóttir, Ingi Haraldsson, Steinar V. Ægisson, Óskírö Baröarsdóttir, Buörún Helga Tryggvadóttir, Tristan Alex Jónsson, Jón Pétur Þorsteinsson, Elmar Johnson, Kristín Hrönn Gunnarsdóttir, Lilja Björg Gunnarsdóttir, Fríða Bonnie Andersen, Cosimo Heimir F. Einarsson, Sólrún Yngvadóttir, Ragnhildur Guðnadóttir, Konráð Valsson, Lísa Kristjánsdóttir.
Cinematographer: Peter Steuger.
Composers: Damon Albarn, Einar Örn Benediktsson.

2000 Locarno Film Festival – Nominated for the Golden Leopard.

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Languages: Icelandic, Spanish, English | Subtitles: English (hard)

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MKV | 5.85 GB | 1920×1040 | 25 FPS | 10,000 kb/s | AC3 224 kb/s
Languages: Icelandic, Spanish, English | Subtitles: English, Czech, French, Hungarian, German, Norwegian, Polish, Spanish, Portuguese, Serbian, Slovenian, Turkish (soft)

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VOR FÆLLES VEN (1921)

Jon W. — Mon, 07 Oct 2024 21:14:07 +0000

Unrivaled among silent-film adaptations of Charles Dickens novels are the four epic Danish features for Nordisk Films by its leading director, A.W. Sandberg: Our Mutual Friend (1921), Great Expectations (1922), David Copperfield (1922), and Little Dorrit (1923). The most visually spectacular is Our Mutual Friend, from Dickens’s last completed novel (1864-65), combining a comic satire about greed with a dark mystery that opens as a corpse floats in the Thames. Shot in 1918—the delayed release apparently due to disputes between Sandberg and Nordisk over the film’s ambition and length—its two parts survive only with significant missing footage in the second half, but it still runs almost two-and-a-half hours. Available for the first time with English subtitles that draw on Dickens’s phrasing and with new text screens to fill in missing story information, the forgotten film proves to be one of the great silent literary adaptations.

Director: A.W. Sandberg. AKA Our Mutual Friend
Writers: Laurids Skands & A.W. Sandberg (screenplay), Charles Dickens (novel).
Stars: Aage Fønns, Alfred Møller, Kate Risse, Peter Malberg, Karen Kaspersen, Egill Rostrup, Peter Fjelstrup, Svend Kornbeck, Peter Nielsen, Bertel Krause, Charles Wilken, Jonna Neiiendam, Carl Madsen, Kai Kilian.
Cinematographer: Einer Olsen.

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Language: Silent | Intertitles: Danish | Subtitles: English

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Big, big thanks to my friend and long time rarefilmm supporter Scott Simmon for sending me a copy of this Danish silent film which not only he personally subtitled to English but also created several text screens providing information about the story for those parts where the film footage couldn’t be found. Stellar work, Scott, thank you for this!

NÅR LIVET GÅR SIN VEJ (1997)

Jon W. — Mon, 01 Aug 2022 10:35:16 +0000

Combining documentary authenticity with subtle fantasy, Danish directors Stefan Fjeldmark and Karsten Kiilerich explore children’s attitudes and vague conceptions about death.

Directors: Stefan Fjeldmark, Karsten Kiilerich. AKA When Life Departs
Writer: Stefan Fjeldmark.

1999 Academy Awards – Nominated for an Oscar for Best Short Film, Animated.

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Many thanks to Steve for sending me a copy of this film.

DOKTOR GLAS (1968)

Jon W. — Thu, 23 Jun 2022 09:50:05 +0000

Doctor Glas is told in the form of a journal. The main character is Dr. Glas, a physician. The antagonist is Reverend Gregorius, a morally corrupt clergyman. Gregorius’ beautiful young wife confides in Dr. Glas that her sex life is making her miserable and asks for his help. Glas, in love with her, agrees to help even though she already has another adulterous lover. He attempts to intervene, but the Reverend refuses to give up his “marital rights”- she must have sex with him whether she likes it or not (at the time, a wife was legally the property of her husband, and subsequently had no right to say no). So, in order to make his love happy, he begins to plot her husband’s murder.

Director: Mai Zetterling. AKA Dr. Glas.
Writers: Hjalmar Söderberg (novel), David Hughes, Mai Zetterling.
Stars: Per Oscarsson, Lone Hertz, Ulf Palme, Bente Dessau, Nils Eklund, Lars Lunøe, Bendt Rothe, Helle Hertz, Ingolf David, Jonas Bergström.

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THE FIRST CIRCLE (1973)

Jon W. — Wed, 09 Jun 2021 07:09:41 +0000

Based on Nobel Prize-winner Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s novel, this is the story of life as a political prisoner behind the walls of a Stalinist labor camp.

Director: Aleksander Ford.
Writers: Aleksander Ford, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (novel).
Stars: Gunther Malzacher, Elzbieta Czyzewska, Peter Steen, Vera Tschechowa, Ole Ernst, Ingolf David, Preben Neergaard, Preben Lerdorff Rye, Ursula Blauth, Hanne Borchsenius, Vigga Bro, Poul Bundgaard, Per Goldschmidt, Ole Ishøj, Søren Elung Jensen.

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KUNDSKABENS TRÆ (1981)

Jon W. — Tue, 30 Mar 2021 10:18:34 +0000

——UPGRADED——

In his fourth feature, Århus loyalist Nils Malmros continues his reminiscing fiction portryals of school days in the 1950s. You follow a class during its final years of grade school. The kids are teenagers, clannish, clownish, sweet and vicious, struggling to make sense of their physical and mental growing pains. The film was shot over two years: the cast literally grew up along with the action.

Director: Nils Malmros. AKA Tree of Knowledge
Writers: Nils Malmros, Frederick Cryer.
Stars: Eva Gram Schjoldager, Jan Johansen, Line Arlien-Søborg, Marian Wendelbo, Gitte Iben Andersen, Lone Elliot, Astrid Holm Jensen, Brian Theibel, Bo von Der Lippe, Marin Lysholm Jepsen, Morten Nautrup, Anders Ørgård, Dan Rørmand Brøgger, Lars Spang Kjeldsen, Nicolaj Flensborg.
Cinematographer: Jan Weincke.

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MKV | 2.89 GB | 1920×1080 | 25 FPS | 3950 kb/s | AAC 96 kb/s
Language: Danish | Subtitles: English, Danish, Portuguese (soft)

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((Upgraded with 1080p softsubbed copy on November 3rd, 2025.))

MIXED DOUBLE (1970)

Jon W. — Sat, 06 Mar 2021 10:21:04 +0000

Experimental ballet film with choreography by Eske Holm. Lighting and trick shots emphasize and expand body movements.

Director: Bent H. Barfod.
Writers: Bent H. Barfod.
Stars: Sorella Englund, Eske Holm.

1971 Cannes Film Festival – Nominated for the Palme d’Or for Best Short Film.