Kirsten Olesen
Birthday: 1949-05-10
Place of Birth: Aarhus, Danmark
Biography: Kirsten Olesen is a Danish actress who since 1979 has been with Copenhagen's Royal Danish Theatre. In Denmark, she is known above all for taking the part of Agnes, a housemaid, in the popular television series Matador. Internationally, she has starred in the title role of Lars von Trier's Medea.
Movies
Spring Tide
Franco lives in a rough part of Copenhagen. His hooker mother has little time for him. Franco drifts...
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Time Out
Drama about a young Dane who has traveled to America to find the father he can hardly remember. In N...
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Medea
Medea after having helped the man she loves, Jason, and given him to birth two children, is driven i...
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Daisy Diamond
A tragic story about Anna who dreams of one thing only: making it as an actress. She moves from Swed...
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Accused
On the surface Henrik and Nina Christofferson are an ordinary family living happily. But they have a...
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As in Heaven
One day at the end of the 1800s, 14-year-old Lise’s life is changed forever. She is the eldest of he...
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Rebounce
REBOUNCE is a colorful, tough and powerful film featuring Frederikke Dahl Hansen in the leading role...
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Hvor lyset kommer ind
Elisa's husband is paralyzed after a traffic accident. She takes care of him at home, but it is diff...
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Stains
An artist finds herself at a residency in the northern part of Jutland. Her need for control in ever...
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In My Life
A young man finds love and settles down, but when his young wife spirals into depression they both h...
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Truck-driver
This trucker road movie tells the story of four men driving 30-ton meat-carriers in shuttle service ...
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In Your Hands
Anna, a young theology graduate, starts work as a prison chaplain. She becomes especially concerned ...
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When Heaven Falls
Sara was placed in care aged 11. Now 28 she hears her mother has died. She goes to the funeral and r...
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Sigurd Fafnersbane
An animated retelling of the legendary hero Sigurd of Norse folklore....
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Something in the Air
When clairvoyant Pernille meets Journalist Daniel, who is on a mission to write an exposé about Fact...
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Did Somebody Laugh?
The late 1930s. A young enemployed, unskilled worker walks through the streets of Copenhagen, sustai...
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Images of Liberation
A German officer visits his Danish mistress after the occupation of Denmark has ended....
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In Your Arms
When Maria meets Niels for the first time, he comes across as an angry and unsympathetic young man. ...
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My Granny's House
Danish author Soya's acidly funny turn-of-the-century memoir novel turned into a robust black comedy...
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The Sun Has Died
A young woman is terrorized while working the night shift, cleaning a remote kindergarten, in this i...
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Helligtrekongersaften
Disguised as a man, Viola (Kirsten Olesen) is stranded in the wonderland of Illyria where she awaken...
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Elise
In a sexual and romantic drama of intrigue, lies, and gossip, a young woman over a long period of ti...
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Robin
You can run into anything in the Danish woods, but a naked woman covered in blood is not something y...
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Wildwitch
12-year-old Clara is just like any other girl, until one day a mysterious black cat scratches her. C...
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That's me too
Stine is eighteen and has finished school. Her parents have are divorced, and the father has a new w...
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The Lost Treasure of the Knights Templar II
In 1361 the Danish King Valdemar's troops approached the city walls of Visby, Gotland. Meanwhile, a ...
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Sorg-agre
The story takes place on a manor in the late 18th century, where the widow Ane Marie's son is suspec...
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The Stranger
Tommy is not doing much of anything with his life or the money he has inherited except smoking weed....
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Food Club
Three longtime girlfriends from elementary school, very different women, have one thing in common: t...
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The Boy Who Disappeared
Fed up with his quarreling middle class parents, thirteen-year-old Jonas runs away from home. He see...
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Johannes' hemmelighed
Johannes is upset because his parents have divorced and because his father never phones him. Before ...
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Rødtotterne og Tyrannos
Seven 12-year-olds fight against property speculators and local officials who intend to replace a tr...
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Albert
When Albert's best friend Egon goes missing, Albert embarks on an adventure to find him. Along the w...
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Ein Sommer in Dänemark
Translator Lena Feldhusen travels to Copenhagen to supposedly research the Danish writer Karen Blixe...
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Madklubben: Hjemme Igen
The three friends, Marie, Berling, and Vanja, are back home. They’ve moved in together in a large, b...
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