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Maybe the best thing to come out of Scandinavia during the hippie years was, in fact, the story of a radical libertarian and a hedonist capitalist. Their friendship, forged by being outsiders in a conformist country, took them through years of adulation and success, with slight detours into the welcoming arms of vilification and imprisonment. A joyride through taxation, mass travel, hookers and politics. Not feeling too constrained by historical facts, director Christoffer Boe's story of Simon Spies and Mogens Glistrup covers just a few of their decades in a tale of warmth and humour, defiance and eccentricity.
| Release : | 2013 |
| Rating : | 6.5 |
| Studio : | Nordisk Film Denmark, AlphaVille Pictures Copenhagen, |
| Crew : | Production Design, Director of Photography, |
| Cast : | Pilou Asbæk Nicolas Bro Jesper Christensen Jakob Højlev Jørgensen Kasper Leisner |
| Genre : | Drama Comedy |
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Reviews
A lot more amusing than I thought it would be.
The movie is wonderful and true, an act of love in all its contradictions and complexity
I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.
Worth seeing just to witness how winsome it is.
Very few Danes don't know the two main characters, Mogens Glistrup and Simon Spies, so a movie with these two and their friendship was inevitable. That Nicolas Bro and Pilou Asbæk played these characters was a great decision! They are both great actors and captured a lot of the mannerisms of both characters, although Nicolas probably downplayed Mogens' accent.Although Spies and Glistrup are very different, Spies being the extravagant playboy and Glistrup being the overweight nerd, they have a deep friendship that is finally tested when Glistrups creative bookkeeping threatens not only to put him in jail, but also to destroy Spies' travel-agency.More of this movie is true than anyone not familiar with this side to danish history would believe. It should make a worthwhile watch even for people with no knowledge of danish history. Beware (or enjoy) the abundant nudity, however!
The film gives an insight into two of the newer Denmark history's most strange and important people. The film is well described without being too corny or too boring. The actors play perfectly into their roles, so you do not pay attention to that it is not the persons in the movie. You will recognize many of the scenes and the lines from the danish tabloids of the time.We were a small group that was in the cinema to see it, we were a group of different age and gender, and we amused, along with the rest of cinema.It is a clear glimpse worth, even if you are too young to have experienced Spies and Glistrup alive.
