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The Bench(2000)
Status: Released
Date: 2000-08-26
68%
30 Votes
Time: 1h 29m
He has a life, he isn't proud of, and a past that he doesn't want to remember.
Overview:
Kaj is a stubborn man with a great deal of pride. The former chef lives in a council flat. He has wasted his life and is now on a council job training scheme for the long-term unemployed, where he refuses to let the foreman of the activation project boss him about. When Kaj's daughter, with whom he has not been in touch for nineteen years, moves into the same council estate on the run from her violent husband, a change comes over Kaj. His initial instinct is to avoid her, but by chance he ends up helping to look after Jonas, her six-year-old son. For the first time for years Kaj need not survive on his own devices. Now he has responsibilities and a family of his own.
Languages: Danish.
Countries:
Denmark
ProductionCompanies: 
Movie: The Bench
Top 10 Billed Cast
Jesper Christensen
Kaj
Nicolaj Kopernikus
Stig
Jens Albinus
Kim
Sarah Boberg
Connie
Lars Brygmann
Lars
John Martinus
Toilet Attendant
Petrine Agger
Nurse
Anette Støvelbæk
Kim's Neighbor
Stine Holm Joensen
Liv
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Overview
Kaj is a stubborn man with a great deal of pride. The former chef lives in a council flat. He has wasted his life and is now on a council job training scheme for the long-term unemployed, where he refuses to let the foreman of the activation project boss him about. When Kaj's daughter, with whom he has not been in touch for nineteen years, moves into the same council estate on the run from her violent husband, a change comes over Kaj. His initial instinct is to avoid her, but by chance he ends up helping to look after Jonas, her six-year-old son. For the first time for years Kaj need not survive on his own devices. Now he has responsibilities and a family of his own.
Release Date
2000-08-26
Average
6.8
Rating:
3.4 startsTagline
He has a life, he isn't proud of, and a past that he doesn't want to remember.
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