Acting

Esben Høilund Carlsen

Known for

Acting

Credits

17 titles

Known for

Only the Truth poster
7.0

A woman, Ilse Brehmer, finds the body of a dead man, a journalist. He has been murdered, and later when the body turns up in the harbor, the woman denies everything, even though witnesses has seen her nearby the crime scene. She simply can’t remember anything, but the detective on the case, Mørck, knows how to smell a lie and soon start to unravel this bloody mess.

Only the Truth

1975

Kristin Lavransdatter poster
4.8

The daughter of a prominent medieval Norway landowner, Kristin grows up in total harmony with the ideals of the time: strong family ties, social pride and devout Christianity. As she accepts the fact that she has been arranged to marry the son of another landowner, Kristin's beauty, innocence and purity evokes violent emotions around her: envy, lust, murder, revenge. She seeks refuge in a convent, awaiting marriage. Here, the passion of her life strikes, the knight Erlend Nikulaussonn. However, their love cannot be private, and suddenly Kristin is the centre of a scandal.

Kristin Lavransdatter

1995

The Last Lieutenant poster
7.4

Norwegian war drama. The old sea-captain retires, but the next day German WWII occupation of Norway begins. He then kisses his wife good-bye and is off to Army HQ. There he finds a lack of leadership and morale that offends him. They even laugh at him and his out-dated uniform and officer-rank. Secondloitnanten then finds and leads his private troop of volunteers against the German attack. The movie tells the story of a man that refuses to give up, even when everybody else leaves. He will fight for the country he loves and do his duty.

The Last Lieutenant

1993

Black Pete – No, You're It poster
NR

A drama-documentary film about the fatal effect of poor living conditions on health – the so-called "social inheritance." The principal characters in the film are two fourteen or fifteen-year-old children, Carl and Hanne. Covering a hundred-year period and drawing on case stories recorded by actual hospital staff, the film illustrates a number of variations of "the same old story."

Black Pete – No, You're It

1980

Nineteen Red Roses poster
7.7

After his girlfriend is killed in an automobile accident, a man decides the best revenge on those responsible is to murder their loved ones.

Nineteen Red Roses

1974

Zero Kelvin poster
6.5

Larsen, an aspiring poet in '20s Oslo, leaves his girlfriend to spend a year as a trapper in East Greenland. There he is teamed with a seemingly rough old sailor/trapper, Randbæk, and a scientist, Holm. Trapped in a tiny hut together as the Arctic winter sets in, a complex and intense love/hate relationship develops between Randbæk and Larsen, who are more similar than either would like to admit. A powerful psychological and physical drama set against stunningly bleak Arctic scenery.

Zero Kelvin

1995

Film credits

1980s · 3 titles

1970s · 2 titles

Behind the camera

Kristin Lavransdatter poster
4.8

The daughter of a prominent medieval Norway landowner, Kristin grows up in total harmony with the ideals of the time: strong family ties, social pride and devout Christianity. As she accepts the fact that she has been arranged to marry the son of another landowner, Kristin's beauty, innocence and purity evokes violent emotions around her: envy, lust, murder, revenge. She seeks refuge in a convent, awaiting marriage. Here, the passion of her life strikes, the knight Erlend Nikulaussonn. However, their love cannot be private, and suddenly Kristin is the centre of a scandal.

Kristin Lavransdatter

1995

The Last Lieutenant poster
7.4

Norwegian war drama. The old sea-captain retires, but the next day German WWII occupation of Norway begins. He then kisses his wife good-bye and is off to Army HQ. There he finds a lack of leadership and morale that offends him. They even laugh at him and his out-dated uniform and officer-rank. Secondloitnanten then finds and leads his private troop of volunteers against the German attack. The movie tells the story of a man that refuses to give up, even when everybody else leaves. He will fight for the country he loves and do his duty.

The Last Lieutenant

1993

Nineteen Red Roses poster
7.7

After his girlfriend is killed in an automobile accident, a man decides the best revenge on those responsible is to murder their loved ones.

Nineteen Red Roses

1974

Nineteen Red Roses poster
7.7

After his girlfriend is killed in an automobile accident, a man decides the best revenge on those responsible is to murder their loved ones.

Nineteen Red Roses

1974

Zero Kelvin poster
6.5

Larsen, an aspiring poet in '20s Oslo, leaves his girlfriend to spend a year as a trapper in East Greenland. There he is teamed with a seemingly rough old sailor/trapper, Randbæk, and a scientist, Holm. Trapped in a tiny hut together as the Arctic winter sets in, a complex and intense love/hate relationship develops between Randbæk and Larsen, who are more similar than either would like to admit. A powerful psychological and physical drama set against stunningly bleak Arctic scenery.

Zero Kelvin

1995

Eddie Holm's Second Life poster
NR

Eddie Holm, a sensitive, unusual musician, decides to give up his craft.

Eddie Holm's Second Life

1986

Rainfox poster
6.5

A crime melodrama set in the world of horse racing. A trainer is wrongfully accused of doping a horse and loses his license. When he begins to investigate the matter himself, a series of shady dealings are uncovered.

Rainfox

1984

Stepping Out poster
8.3

Individually divorced and disillusioned, Jens and Karen meet and are drawn towards each other, but how does one go about courtship in a natural way, let alone a tangible relationship, in a time and age of general wisdom on every bookshelf? Surrounded by marital misfits and ex-partners, Jens and Karen give love a half-chance nonetheless.

Stepping Out

1981

The Gangster's Apprentice poster
7.0

Crime film about a Copenhagen social worker who, out of boredom, seeks away from his environment and into the criminal underworld, which he soon becomes part of - with fatal consequences.

The Gangster's Apprentice

1976

No artwork available
NR

The classic chase. The mechanics of escape and repression. About identity loss, role-playing, and alienation, as they say.

Tegneserie

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No artwork available
NR

The classic chase. The mechanics of escape and repression. About identity loss, role-playing, and alienation, as they say.

Tegneserie

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