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Synopsis: The early 1990's: 300,000 Danes are out of work. Viggo, a machinist with two grown children, is silent about feelings, scared he'll lose his job, loud about the value of trade unionism, interested in his pet fish, and argumentative at dinner. His wife Oda puts up with his moods and works on family genealogy. When Viggo is laid off, he becomes a fish out of water, hardly looking for work, starting a garden, and taking up with Karen, a polished but unhappy widow. He lies to his wife about a union training and goes to Mallorca with Karen. When she stops the affair, Viggo ends up in a psychiatric ward and must figure out what's really important in his life and in his character.
Genre: Comedy
Director(s): Erik Clausen
  2 wins.
 
IMDB:
7.0
Year:
1993
97 min
16 Views


Denmark wouldn't

have won the EM in soccer.

The Danish labour movement

established popular sports... Hello.

Have you ever heard an employer

come in with a ball and say:

"Stop the machines, boys.

Let's go play. "

Soccer is one of the great merits

of the working class.

Rich people play soccer, too.

- We taught them!

You're far out, dad.

Yes. Drive safely.

I think we'll...

- No. I'll make some coffee.

That Swede hasn't called?

Wasn't that a bit far-fetched

about the soccer?

Yes, but...

I couldn't think of anything else.

If only I could tell her -

- that I'm really afraid of getting

the sack. But she gets so nervous.

If I just mention the kids.

"Oh, how will they get on?"

You're grumbling, Viggo.

You're as silent as the grave.

It makes me so nervous.

Is something wrong, honey?

No, no... no.

She could make

a bit more of herself.

She can buy something.

There's money in the drawer.

Oda, damn it. The female version

of a rusty Skoda.

Oda.

Are you sitting there?

You made me nervous, Viggo.

You're not smoking in the bedroom?

What a mess.

It stays in the curtains.

Go into the living room.

Why are you sitting there

smoking, Viggo?

Answer me

when I'm talking to you.

...come and hand people

white envelopes and...

Can't you just shut up

and leave me alone?

That's the limit.

Put out that smelly cigarette.

It's disgusting.

It's disgusting with that smoke in

the bedroom. What were you thinking?

You look like a bag of sh*t.

That's enough. That's bloody

well enough, you fat bastard!

I'm tired of your grumbling.

It's like being married to ten bags

of cement. I'll tell you something.

If you're so sick of it,

you can leave. It's just one word.

The door is there!

You mean bastard.

A bag... No, no, no.

You're not much of a man, Viggo.

Who do you think you are?

Yes, in your words.

But not in your pants, Viggo.

Put out that smelly cigarette!

But, Viggo, you've been crying.

I'm sorry about what I said.

I didn't mean it.

Did I put in five?

- Hey!

No thanks.

Take it easy.

We don't have anything to do.

No, that's just it.

They haven't sacked anyone for weeks.

Something's wrong here.

Completely wrong.

They won't sack us, man.

They won't throw away gold.

Who'd run our machines?

You talk like the rest

of the lazy Danes.

"Isn't this nice?"

And "What's for dinner?".

Cold p*ssy and cabbage.

- And "We'll win at the racetrack".

The trotting track.

- The trotting track!

Viggo, you're getting

bloody paranoid.

Nothing's going to happen.

Hello? Hello?

Stop the production.

Everyone to the canteen.

I've asked the Chairman

of the Board of the SP Group...

There'll be trouble.

That slimy bastard

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Erik Clausen

Erik Clausen (born 7 March 1942) is a Danish actor, film director and screenwriter. He has directed fourteen films since 1981. His 2007 film Temporary Release was entered into the 29th Moscow International Film Festival. more…

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