Henning Carlsen Movies

Henning Carlsen's cinéma vérité trilogy on life and relationships begins with a portrait of elderly people in Denmark.

Tobias Jacobsen is 42. When the doctors tell him he is fatally ill, the earth opens up beneath him and he finds himself plunging into the abyss. It...

The second part of Carlsen's documentary trilogy explores the structure and importance of the family unit as an institution, and the opinions of...

A group of women are workmates at a laundry. Rike is spreading a rumor about the manager Marta, a rumor that Marta is a lesbian and that she once...

The third and final part of Carlsen's documentary trilogy explores what it means to be young or old.

A veteran sea captain abducts his niece for what he believes is his last chance at love. As the sad demon of the ocean Klabautermanden watches the...

An American tourist walks into a souvenir shop in Stockholm and while he waits for the clerk to finish a phone call, he looks at various exhibited...