Jesper Christensen
9 titles
Filmography
9 results

The King's Choice
(2016)On April 9, 1940, the German war machine arrived in the city of Oslo and the Norwegian King faces a choice that will change his country forever.

The Last Sentence
(2012)Amidst the political turmoil of WW2 Sweden, a real-life journalist fights a one-man, life-and-death battle against his nation’s neutrality and Hitler.

Into the Darkness
(2020)A Danish industrialist cooperates and profits from the 1940 German occupation while his family finds themselves on opposite sides of the conflict.

Everlasting Moments
(2008)This beautifully filmed true story tells of one woman's capacity to survive during social unrest in Sweden in the 1900s. When Maria Larsson wins a camera she keeps it. This decision alters her life as it allows her to see the world through new eyes, offering her a route to freedom from her abusive husband.

Sex, Drugs & Taxation
(2013)Sex, Drugs & Taxation deals with the spectacular historical friendship between two of the most notorious and provocative figures of modern Danish history: the radical right-wing lawyer-turned-politician, Mogens Glistrup, and the ”travel king”, millionaire, womaniser and public provocateur, Simon Spies. Through the story of their lives and friendship, we are told the so far untold tale about how these two infamous Danish icons became what they did and how they used each other as support as well as opponents in their respective life missions. It is a story about how life can be lived to the fullest, a battle for ideas, a vision for society - and how half of Denmark fell in love while the other half hated the two eccentrics, who were like nothing the country had ever seen before.

Barbara
(1997)This adaptation of Jørgen-Frantz Jacobsen's acclaimed novel follows the troubled romance of Poul, a priest, and Barbara, a twice-widowed seductress.
One-Hand Clapping
(2001)Businessman Erik Svensson plans a new life in Spain with his girlfriend, Helene. On the day the pair are preparing to leave, Svensson's lawyer turns up with news of Erik's daughter, one he didn't know he had.

Munch
(2023)A gripping and epic depiction across four different periods in the life of one of the world's greatest and most famous painters of all time - Edvard Munch.

The Debt
(2010)Past events haunt a former Mossad agent (Helen Mirren) when she returns to Eastern Europe to investigate the apparent reappearance of a Nazi war criminal that she thought was long dead.