Movie: The Bench

Top 10 Billed Cast

Jesper Christensen
Jesper Christensen

Kaj

Nicolaj Kopernikus
Nicolaj Kopernikus

Stig

Jens Albinus
Jens Albinus

Kim

Sarah Boberg
Sarah Boberg

Connie

Lars Brygmann
Lars Brygmann

Lars

John Martinus
John Martinus

Toilet Attendant

Petrine Agger
Petrine Agger

Nurse

Anette Støvelbæk
Anette Støvelbæk

Kim's Neighbor

Marius Sonne Janischefska
Marius Sonne Janischefska

Jonas

Stine Holm Joensen
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

    7.015

  • Rating:

    3.5 starts
  • Tagline

    He has a life, he isn't proud of, and a past that he doesn't want to remember.

  • Genres

  • Languages:

    Dansk
  • Keywords

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