Movies: Henning Carlsen

The documentary is a cavalcade of King Haakon VII's life from his arrival in Christiania in the autumn of 1905 until May 17, 1952, the year he turned 80....

The late 1930s. A young enemployed, unskilled worker walks through the streets of Copenhagen, sustaining himself partly on the dole and free soup-kitchen meals and partly on day-dreams. He spends time at a cemetry studying headstone inscriptions. Mil...

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 makes him think of the time he was 13 and his girlfriend got him to jump off the balcony of her father...

This documentary examines a feature of Danish life in the late '60s and early '70s: the political commune. In a series of stiff and unrevealing interviews with members of the Kloevedal Commune, "Mao's Pleasure," director Carlssen seeks to discover wh...

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