Astrid Henning-Jensen Movies

A young orphan is sent to live in a Danish village where he is cast out because his mother was a West Indian. With nowhere to turn, the ingenious...

Inspired by tales from "Arabian Nights", with many a touch of magic, but primarily based on a book by Denmark's Ole Lund Kirkegaard, a master of the...

17-year-old Bo's parents are divorced, and he lives with his mother in Aalborg. He travels to Copenhagen to visit his father. At his architect's...

Erik Dahl escapes from prison where he is serving a sentence for smuggling. He seeks out his family, but the police have already been there, and he...

A Danish documentary on World War II told from the perspective of the resistance movement. Incorporating footage shot by filmmakers working alongside...

Drama about a young woman who is diagnosed with cancer. We follow her journey and her relationship with her husband and their two children until she...

Per Brask is a fisherman's son, a lively 16-year-old boy, still too young to go out to sea, even though, like other boys on the west coast, he has to...

The beauty of the islands is depicted in this Danish short documentary.