Election night
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Election night |
| Original title | Valgaften |
| Country of production | Denmark |
| original language | Danish |
| Publishing year | 1998 |
| length | 11 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Thomas Jensen is different |
| script | Thomas Jensen is different |
| production |
Mie Andreasen , Tivi Magnusson |
| music | Jeppe Kaas |
| camera | Jens Schlosser |
| cut | Not so Villadsen |
| occupation | |
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Election Night is an eleven-minute short film by the film director Anders Thomas Jensen . In 1999 the Danish comedy won an Oscar in the Best Short Film category .
action
It's twenty minutes to eight in a Copenhagen pub. Peter has just ordered a Dos Equis and complains that the two Carlsberg drinking friends are racists , when he remembers that today is the election and he has not yet voted.
When he tried to reach the polling station, he caught three racist taxi drivers at the same time, so that in the end he would rather run through the pouring rain than drive on with them. He thinks that he came to the polls in time and therefore does not comply with the poller's repeated request to take her foot out of the door to the polling station. In trying to soften the black woman, he argues that he would vote for her people, too, which she takes as a racist remark. A passerby asks if there are any problems and she points out Peter's wrongdoing, whereupon the passerby hits Peter.
When he got back to his pub, the beer he had ordered has gone stale and Peter orders a round of Carlsberg.
Web links
- Election night in the Internet Movie Database (English)