Helle Ryslinge

Acting

Helle Ryslinge

Born

1944-01-10 (82)

Place of birth

Copenhagen, Denmark

Known for

Acting

Credits

36 titles

Known for

Unit One poster
7.2

Rejseholdet is a Danish television crime series starring Charlotte Fich, Mads Mikkelsen and Lars Brygmann. Produced by Danmarks Radio, the program aired 32 episodes spanning four seasons from 2000 to 2004. Each episode revolved around an elite mobile police task force called "Unit One" that travels around Denmark helping local police solve crimes. Cases portrayed in the show were loosely based upon actual incidents of sensational crimes such as murders, kidnappings, cross-border sex traffic and child pornography. Rejseholdet won the 2002 International Emmy Award for best drama series.

Unit One

2000

Sommer poster
7.6

Sommer is a Danish TV-drama aired on DR1 in 2008. The series was created by Jesper W. Nielsen and Karina Dam

Sommer

2008

Hugo, the Jungle Creature poster
6.3

This film introduces us to Hugo, a one-of-a-kind animal who lives in a jungle. Youthful and carefree, Hugo is prone to playing practical jokes on his friends, Zig and Zag the monkeys. His idyllic lifestyle is interrupted when he is captured by CEO of a famed movie company, Conrad Cupmann, to be co-star in a Hollywood-style film. In order to return from Copenhagen to his jungle home, he must escape with the help of a newly found friend, Rita the fox.

Hugo, the Jungle Creature

1993

Once a Cop... poster
8.3

Policeman Karl Jørgensen was once a prominent detective, but due to a violent temper he's now checking out passports at the airport, smuggling stout to work in his thermos every day. However, Kaj, the boyfriend of his daughter, is suddenly killed by a heroin overdose injected by hooded gangsters. It turns out he was spying on their organisation for his brother, Frank, who was framed by them while smuggling narcotics. When Frank hears about Kaj's death, he escapes from prison to get back at the killers. Meanwhile, the same gangsters threaten Karl Jørgensen's daughter, and soon Karl is involved in a major drug smuggling case. Frank and his buddy rob a bank and shoot a police officer. A country-wide manhunt ensues while Karl is having trouble with controlling his daughter's vigilante activities, with finding out who killed Kaj, with the police detectives on the case and with his own alcoholic and lacking existence.

Once a Cop...

1987

Rubber Tarzan poster
6.4

Ivan is a very lonely 8 year boy who is bullied almost every day in school. Even his father taunts him because Ivan litteraly is a weakling (That should explain the title Rubber Tarzan). As a result of this Ivan spends a lot of his time on daydreaming until he meets a kind of kindred spirit - the friendly and lonely crane driver Ole.

Rubber Tarzan

1981

Veronica's Veil poster
NR

Jytte Rex charts the white or wilfully deleted spots on the map of primarily women's happiness and grief. This is done by the experimental filmmaker's positioning of a dream narrator as a guide through the manyleveled visions, stories and pictures that unite work, love, and revolt in any individual's life. The title refers to the cloth or veil on which crucified Christ's tormented face left an imprint for posterity.

Veronica's Veil

1977

Film credits

1990s · 8 titles

Hugo, the Jungle Creature poster
6.3

This film introduces us to Hugo, a one-of-a-kind animal who lives in a jungle. Youthful and carefree, Hugo is prone to playing practical jokes on his friends, Zig and Zag the monkeys. His idyllic lifestyle is interrupted when he is captured by CEO of a famed movie company, Conrad Cupmann, to be co-star in a Hollywood-style film. In order to return from Copenhagen to his jungle home, he must escape with the help of a newly found friend, Rita the fox.

Hugo, the Jungle Creature

1993

Spring Tide poster
5.0

Franco lives in a rough part of Copenhagen. His hooker mother has little time for him. Franco drifts into a life of crime, repeatedly confronting the authorities. To give him a new start, he’s placed in a foster home far away from Copenhagen. His new family greets him with warm hospitality. There’s also the beautiful countryside and, last but not least, the teen-aged daughter

Spring Tide

1990

War of the Birds poster
7.0

Fagin is the bad bird of an otherwise idyllic forest. He assaults the nest of two wrens and destroys all their eggs except one that, when hatched, is adopted by an owl (patterned on W. C. Fields). A counter-offensive against Fagin is launched with help enlisted from a seagull named Armstrong, two nice mice and a sparrow. There is romance, too, and a jazzy score goes with this animated ornithology extravaganza.

War of the Birds

1990

Hugo the Movie Star poster
6.0

Hugo, the one-of-a-kind jungle animal, is snatched away from his home for a second time in another attempt for him to become an animal actor. Meanwhile, he's reunited with Rita the kind, streetwise fox. Finding that life in front of and behind the camera isn't so bad, he grows more unaccustomed to wild life once he escapes and slowly weakens his relationship with Rita.

Hugo the Movie Star

1996

The Hideaway poster
6.4

12-year-old Martin finds the going tough. Manhood is approaching, but so far mostly as aches and pain. His mother's men friends are definitely nothing like the father he does not have. So some kind of male bonding is inevitable when he meets Funder, a juvenile droput on the run from the police. There is also girl-friend Rikke to consider. Who needs Martin the most? Coming of age isn't so easy.

The Hideaway

1991

The Blue Monk poster
6.7

The waitresses at a Copenhagen bar find themselves listening to and advising various clients who wander in to unburden their current problems. The Blue Monk is so named because its jukebox constantly plays music by jazz musician Thelonius Monk. ...The Blue Monk

The Blue Monk

1998

Carlo and Ester poster
4.0

A pair of octogenarians meet, fall in love, and have a passionate love affair, much to the horror of their disapproving children.

Carlo and Ester

1994

Fish Out of Water poster
6.2

The early 1990s: 300,000 Danes are out of work. Viggo, a machinist with two grown children, is silent about feelings, scared he'll lose his job, loud about the value of trade unionism, interested in his pet fish, and argumentative at dinner. His wife Oda puts up with his moods and works on family genealogy. When Viggo is laid off, he becomes a fish out of water, hardly looking for work, starting a garden, and taking up with Karen, a polished but unhappy widow. He lies to his wife about a union training and goes to Mallorca with Karen. When she stops the affair, Viggo ends up in a psychiatric ward and must figure out what's really important in his life and in his character

Fish Out of Water

1993

1980s · 10 titles

Rubber Tarzan poster
6.4

Ivan is a very lonely 8 year boy who is bullied almost every day in school. Even his father taunts him because Ivan litteraly is a weakling (That should explain the title Rubber Tarzan). As a result of this Ivan spends a lot of his time on daydreaming until he meets a kind of kindred spirit - the friendly and lonely crane driver Ole.

Rubber Tarzan

1981

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

Burning Hearts poster
7.7

A comedy about the everydaylife of the 30-year-old something nurse Henriette and her life. Her boyfriend is boring and she has an affair with a violent doctor. She shares an apartment with a gay man and she is close with her brother who is a somewhat insecure and love-seeking guy. However, after some unfortunate clashes with the world, Henriette realizes she is able to stand on her own.

Burning Hearts

1986

The Knight of Justice poster
5.3

Benjamin act as a moral guardian as he saves both a female thief and a child during Christmas in a futuristic Denmark.

The Knight of Justice

1989

Lykken er en underlig fisk poster
4.8

A socially realistic drama about the relationship between a mother and her teenage daughter in a windswept port town in Jutland. The mother is from Copenhagen and was once a beauty queen. Now she is married to a fisherman, works at the fish filleting factory, and is having an affair with the factory's unsympathetic owner. She has come to terms with her life, but her daughter cannot accept a future cutting up fish. When she wins a local beauty contest, she sees a chance to escape, but things turn out differently.

Lykken er en underlig fisk

1989

Negerkys og labre larver poster
4.2

This is a story about two 11-year-old girls. Nana, who has a dog but really just dreams of being a renowned ballerina, and Conny, who is forced to go to ballet but has a burning desire to be a famous veterinarian. What will become of the two? And what will happen when they finally meet the world-famous pop idol Michael Jackson? And what about Anders, the boy who is left with twin children and has just got a ticket to the World Cup in Mexico? Are you confused? The girls aren't. They have found the perfect solution to the mess – just watch and join in the fun!

Negerkys og labre larver

1987

Ladies on the Rocks poster
6.0

Laura and Micha travel the Danish countryside performing their off-beat cabaret show. Their personal lives suffer as a result of their dedication to their craft, yet the chaos that ensues becomes the grist for their revue.

Ladies on the Rocks

1983

No artwork available
8.5

The last of three animated films about the history of the exploited underclass in the Nordic countries through the ages. The first two were "Trællene" (1978) and "Trællenes oprør" (1979).

The Thralls' Children

1980

Kniven i hjertet poster
8.5

A shy postman longing for a relationship is reading love letters he is supposed to deliver.

Kniven i hjertet

1981

No artwork available
7.7

A woman finds herself in a crisis situation after being divorced and having lost her job. Images from her subconscious emerge, activated by childhood memories and confrontations with other women, especially her mother and sister.

Belladonna

1981

1970s · 6 titles

Veronica's Veil poster
NR

Jytte Rex charts the white or wilfully deleted spots on the map of primarily women's happiness and grief. This is done by the experimental filmmaker's positioning of a dream narrator as a guide through the manyleveled visions, stories and pictures that unite work, love, and revolt in any individual's life. The title refers to the cloth or veil on which crucified Christ's tormented face left an imprint for posterity.

Veronica's Veil

1977

Side om side for rødt poster
7.5

No synopsis available yet.

Side om side for rødt

1977

No artwork available
6.7

Clemens has escaped from prison. The first thing he does is seek out his wife Maria. He dreams of the two of them traveling away, but Maria does not want to. In the end, he leaves using his friend's passport.

Achilleshælen er mit våben

1979

Well-spring of My World poster
5.8

Danish writer/director/critic Christian Braad Thomsen goes back to his Jutland village roots in this documentary film, and lets the interviews with his neighbors and others from his homeland speak for themselves. Jutland has gone from being a remote rural spot to becoming a favored vacation spot, and the rigors of unchecked development in contrast to the past is the main theme of their discussions.

Well-spring of My World

1976

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

Pigen og drømmeslottet poster
6.2

Tine is in love with the young owner of a beautiful castle, Karsten. She has been dreaming about the castle since she was a small child and visiting her auntie, who is a neighbor to the castle. But an evil plot has been made to take the castle from Karsten.

Pigen og drømmeslottet

1974

Series credits

Unit One poster
7.2

Rejseholdet is a Danish television crime series starring Charlotte Fich, Mads Mikkelsen and Lars Brygmann. Produced by Danmarks Radio, the program aired 32 episodes spanning four seasons from 2000 to 2004. Each episode revolved around an elite mobile police task force called "Unit One" that travels around Denmark helping local police solve crimes. Cases portrayed in the show were loosely based upon actual incidents of sensational crimes such as murders, kidnappings, cross-border sex traffic and child pornography. Rejseholdet won the 2002 International Emmy Award for best drama series.

Unit One

2000

Sommer poster
7.6

Sommer is a Danish TV-drama aired on DR1 in 2008. The series was created by Jesper W. Nielsen and Karina Dam

Sommer

2008

Once a Cop... poster
8.3

Policeman Karl Jørgensen was once a prominent detective, but due to a violent temper he's now checking out passports at the airport, smuggling stout to work in his thermos every day. However, Kaj, the boyfriend of his daughter, is suddenly killed by a heroin overdose injected by hooded gangsters. It turns out he was spying on their organisation for his brother, Frank, who was framed by them while smuggling narcotics. When Frank hears about Kaj's death, he escapes from prison to get back at the killers. Meanwhile, the same gangsters threaten Karl Jørgensen's daughter, and soon Karl is involved in a major drug smuggling case. Frank and his buddy rob a bank and shoot a police officer. A country-wide manhunt ensues while Karl is having trouble with controlling his daughter's vigilante activities, with finding out who killed Kaj, with the police detectives on the case and with his own alcoholic and lacking existence.

Once a Cop...

1987

Torvet poster
9.5

In the square of an unnamed Danish town, we follow a number of people as they go about their daily business, big and small: The police officer tries to find out whether the Christmas tree seller has a "permit" to sell Christmas trees, the bicycle repairman invents a new kind of bicycle, the baker's assistant and the chimney sweep are in love, and the barber is working on a rug made of hair. Meanwhile, the Christmas tree seller sits carving small wooden figures and talking to everyone who passes by. The dramatic main story is that a modern entrepreneur wants to tear down all the old buildings in the square and replace them with a modern parking lot. Each section ends with the characters gathering around Ella's hot dog stand and singing along with the courtyard musicians.

Torvet

1981

Behind the camera

Burning Hearts poster
7.7

A comedy about the everydaylife of the 30-year-old something nurse Henriette and her life. Her boyfriend is boring and she has an affair with a violent doctor. She shares an apartment with a gay man and she is close with her brother who is a somewhat insecure and love-seeking guy. However, after some unfortunate clashes with the world, Henriette realizes she is able to stand on her own.

Burning Hearts

1986

Burning Hearts poster
7.7

A comedy about the everydaylife of the 30-year-old something nurse Henriette and her life. Her boyfriend is boring and she has an affair with a violent doctor. She shares an apartment with a gay man and she is close with her brother who is a somewhat insecure and love-seeking guy. However, after some unfortunate clashes with the world, Henriette realizes she is able to stand on her own.

Burning Hearts

1986

Syrup poster
4.9

In this wry comedy, the self-deceiving exploits of Lasse (Peter Hesse Overgaard), are shown, as he more or less innocently runs small cons on the people in his life, all the while sponging off of his girlfriend in a bohemian quarter of Copenhagen. He is a no-count, but fairly handsome young stud who imagines that he is some sort of art promoter, or is perhaps even a video artist himself.

Syrup

1990

Halalabad Blues poster
6.0

A warm-hearted and biting romance about the impossible love between a Danish woman and a Turkish man

Halalabad Blues

2002

Halalabad Blues poster
6.0

A warm-hearted and biting romance about the impossible love between a Danish woman and a Turkish man

Halalabad Blues

2002

Carlo and Ester poster
4.0

A pair of octogenarians meet, fall in love, and have a passionate love affair, much to the horror of their disapproving children.

Carlo and Ester

1994

Carlo and Ester poster
4.0

A pair of octogenarians meet, fall in love, and have a passionate love affair, much to the horror of their disapproving children.

Carlo and Ester

1994