Danish delicacies

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Movie
German title Danish delicacies
Original title De green slagtere
Country of production Denmark
original language Danish
Publishing year 2003
length 100 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Thomas Jensen is different
script Thomas Jensen is different
production Kim Magnusson
Tivi Magnusson
music Jeppe Kaas
camera Sebastian Blenkov
cut Not so Villadsen
occupation

Danish Delicacies is a Danish comedy film by director and screenwriter Anders Thomas Jensen , who also wrote the scripts for the Danish box office hits In China They Eat Dogs and his later prequel Old Men in New Cars .

action

Bjarne and Svend are employed by the nasty master butcher Holger. Svend has greater ambition and suffering than Bjarne, who is constantly smoking weed. Svend doesn't want to be humiliated any further and persuades Bjarne to start her own butcher shop. But this goes badly, customers stay away and Svend is abandoned by his girlfriend. Accidentally, an electrician is locked in the cold store overnight. When Svend finds the body in the morning, he panics and begins to process it into fillets and sell them. When Bjarne found out, he was horrified. The two decide to let the electrician disappear into their bone mill the next day - when he's frozen through . However, Svend does not stick to this agreement and continues to sell the electrician's meat. This is developing into an absolute "hit" and attracts a large number of customers in the store.

As a result, the two process more and more unpleasant people from their environment (e.g. a curious broker and the ex-girlfriend) into goods in order to be able to deliver supplies to their customers - who have no idea that they are consuming human flesh. Her former boss Holger becomes suspicious, as the new butcher's shop hardly receives any meat deliveries from the usual suppliers. In interwoven subplots, the viewer learns about the traumatic life experiences in childhood and adolescence of Bjarne and Svend and the difficulties of their survival, which have led to their being an outsider and behavioral disorders. Bjarne's budding love for the undertaker's assistant Astrid is what pulls him out of his lethargy, so that he cleans the butcher's shop. In response to a complaint from competitor Holger, the butcher's shop is checked by the food inspectorate, but nothing suspicious can now be found, except for Svend's exceptionally good marinade. Bjarne had meanwhile sold ordinary meat to the customers, who were still enthusiastic. In the end it turns out that the popularity of their meat products did not come from the fact that it was human meat, but that Svend's first-class marinade was and continues to be responsible for it.

Reviews

“Macabre fairytale grotesque in retro style, juggling with the theme of how death shapes the survivors. Interiors and actors are reminiscent of the stylistic devices of black British comedies and classic silent film grotesques. Despite dramaturgical redundancies and an unsatisfactory final punchline, largely entertaining. "

- Lexicon of international film

“In fact, Anders Thomas Jensen's idiosyncratic recipe works, at least when it comes to“ nice monsters ”: Mads Mikkelsen moves as a neurotic pedant who searches for the perfect seasoning with religious zeal. And so the "Danish delicacies" taste like a bizarre outsider tragedy. However, they lack sophistication when it comes to comedy delicacies. Conclusion: As real as a Danish Pølser hot dog, even if a little tartar sauce is missing. "

- Cinema

“In the course of the film it is convincingly proven that trusting in your own creativity will bring you much further in the long term than any crime. And with all the amorality exhibited in this black comedy, that is a highly moral message. "

- Die Welt , August 19, 2004

“It's actually junk food: quick to consume, difficult to digest. Not to mention the bad aftertaste. "

- Der Tagesspiegel , August 19, 2004

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Danish delicacies. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film Service , accessed December 21, 2011 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  2. ^ Danish delicacies in: Cinema , accessed December 21, 2011
  3. ^ Danish delicacies in: Der Tagesspiegel , accessed on December 21, 2011