
Acting
Stig Hoffmeyer
Born — Died
1940-05-27 — 2022-11-25
Place of birth
Hillerød, Danmark
Known for
Acting
Credits
70 titles
Known for
7.6At Andersen’s Seaside Hotel by the North Sea dunes, meet three young people as they try to emancipate themselves from the plans other people have made on their behalf.
Seaside Hotel
2013
8.0The Killing is a Danish police procedural set in the Copenhagen main police department and revolves around Detective Inspector Sarah Lund and her team, with each season series following a different murder case day-by-day and a one-hour episode covering twenty-four hours of the investigation. The series is noted for its plot twists, season-long storylines, dark tone and for giving equal emphasis to the story of the murdered victim's family alongside the police investigation. It has also been singled out for the photography of its Danish setting, and for the acting ability of its cast.
The Killing
2007
7.7The Kingdom is the most technologically advanced hospital in Denmark, a gleaming bastion of medical science. A rash of uncanny occurrences, however, begins to weaken the staff's faith in science – a phantom ambulance pulls in every night, but disappears; voices echo in the elevator shaft; and a pregnant doctor's fetus seems to be developing much faster than is natural.
The Kingdom
1994
7.2Rejseholdet 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
6.7Langt fra Las Vegas is a Danish sit-com, which was first aired on the Danish TV channel TV2 Zulu. It revolved around life at a newly started TV morning show, Jump Start, and focused on the life of the main character, Casper. Langt fra Las Vegas consisted of 53 episodes, aired over 5 seasons with each episode lasting 25 minutes. It ran from 2001-2003.
Far from Las Vegas
2001
6.6The story centers on a family of priests: Johannes, Elisabeth and their sons August and Christian. Johannes is God-like to his sons - he gives, loves, and punishes. His favoritism for August and his disappointment with Christian forces both into making desperate choices in order to either gain his love or break free from him.
Ride Upon the Storm
2017
Film credits
2020s · 4 titles
7.5Minna, a young girl, misuses her newfound ability to create and control other people’s dreams to teach her bothersome stepsister a lesson. When her stepsister can no longer wake up, Minna has to enter the dream world to save her.
Dreambuilders
2020
5.6Film about the events surrounding the terrorist attacks in Copenhagen on February 14th and 15th 2015.
The Day We Died
2020
NRAn old religious married couple discovers something mysterious and possibly godly about one of their hens.
Holy Hen
2021
NRDocumentary about the making and reception of Carl Th. Dreyer's final movie, "Gertrud."
Dreyer's Gertrud
2022
2010s · 6 titles
7.1The lives of two Danish families cross each other, and an extraordinary but risky friendship comes into bud. But loneliness, frailty and sorrow lie in wait.
In a Better World
2010
NRSteen is a clairvoyant psychic who has dedicated his life to his work. He has helped many families finding their missing loved ones, but he is estranged from his own adult son. His grandson’s birthday is coming up, a last possibility of reconciliation. Nothing must go wrong. But on his way there, he is approached by a desperate woman whose son has gone missing. She seeks out Steen as her last resort.
Missing
2019
5.6Teenage Marie lives on a small island with her father and catatonic mother. Virtually friendless and sullen, Marie begins to experience frightening changes in her body that mark her as a dangerous threat.
When Animals Dream
2014
NRA middle-aged couple embarks on a road trip to pick up a boat that they have bought. As they drive through the country suppressed feelings and fears start to re-surface. As they arrive at their final destination they face the blank ocean and realize that they have completely lost their grip on life.
Nexus
2012
6.4Follows the lives of four longing souls. Ingeborg who feels unattractive and young Jonas who is so attractive that he can literally sell some of what he's got. Anna, a young beautiful woman with a physical disability, and Anders, a tender man with a psychological disability. Four people yearning for love, four people, each hoping for a better tomorrow.
Nothing's All Bad
2010
6.4The friends are back, and this time the battle is for the neighborhood of Nørrebro. The villains Æselmand and Svinet have a sinister plan to raze Blågårdsgade to the ground in order to get their hands on the oil they have discovered beneath the street. But the friends have found a chip with magical properties, which he hopes to sell to the bandits in order to win back the street.
Iqbal & the Superchip
2016
2000s · 7 titles
7.1Max Manus is a Norwegian 2008 biographic war film based on the real events of the life of resistance fighter Max Manus (1914–96), after his contribution in the Winter War against the Soviet Union. The story follows Manus through the outbreak of World War II in Norway until peacetime in 1945.
Max Manus: Man of War
2008
5.0Lars lives a life dedicated to his disabled mother and his job at a petrol station. One day the girl he is secretly in love with, Julie, faints at his feet. Julie recovers but suffers from an acute psychosis confusing Lars with her deceased boyfriend Søren. Lars decides to take on Søren's identity and keep Julie locked in her psychosis. This is his chance of a lifetime, to experience love.
Gemini
2003
7.2A drama about a boy who's inspired by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and challenges repressive school authority in 1969 Denmark.
We Shall Overcome
2006
6.2Jørgen manages the lotto club at the factory where he works. If you ask him, he would say he is a good person, even better than most. Then one day, he has to share a three million kroner jackpot with his friends, and his high morals are put to the test.
Lotto
2006
Karl Einar booking hey, hey... Who doesn't remember the a tad awkward booker from Borris in the West of Jutland, who among others has Tina Turner, Luciano Pavarotti and now also Finn Nørbygård in his fold ? "I am sure that Finn Nørbygård will become famous, not only in Borris but in the whole of Ringkøbing county" Karl Einar says about his new find. Karl Einar is back big time with this DVD, where he presents the absolute best parts of the hilarious Finn'sk Television broadcasts with one of Denmark's greatest entertainers, Finn Nørbygård. The DVD also includes many completely new sketches, that have never been shown on television. As immodest as he is - it is spiced with some of Karl Einar's own broadcasts from BNN - Borris Nærradio (local radio) fjernsynsafdelingen (television department)... Among others a DIY program "it's easy" - sponsored by Borris timber merchant and a gardening program called "A is out there".
Finn'sk Television - The Greatest
2001
7.6A man grows up in very modest circumstances in the early years of the 20th century, but his diligence, intelligence and willingness to endure hardship helps him to become a leading brain surgeon. A success story on the face of it, but a story about a man – who is none other than the director's father – a man of powerful emotions. The film explores the nature and origin of the guilt that repeatedly deprived him of happiness.
Facing the Truth
2002
Private investigator Hannah Wolfe is tasked with solving a case of sabotage. When the case takes a turn and murder enters the picture, the police get involved. Now Hannah needs more than just her private investigator's quick wits to get out of the trap. Nothing is predictable, and she has to get behind the facade before she can catch the killer.
Hannah Wolfe
2004
1990s · 13 titles
6.9Martin, a law student, takes up a job as a nightwatchman at a mortuary to fund his studies. But the mortuary harbours a dark secret, and he has to find the truth before he is implicated in a serial murder case.
Nightwatch
1994
4.8Liv Ulmann's directorial debut also had her co-authoring the screenplay (with poet Peter Poulsen) as based on a Henri Nathansen's 1932 novel about an affluent late 19th century Jewish merchant family in Copenhagen. Ulmann focuses on strong-willed daughter Sofie's progress through life: a love affair with a gentile painter, an arranged marriage , childbirth and ever more fateful challenges.
Sofie
1992
6.0Some students gets locked up in their school and is stalked by a killer. But as time goes by, it turns out that there is more to this than it seems.
Final Hour
1995
5.0PUK SCHARBAU plays Lise Nørgaard in the epic film adaptation of her fascinating life story. In a chronicle of both love and war, masterfully directed by Peter Schroeder, we follow the woman who would later give us 'Matador', from her early childhood to her controversial career as a journalist with a Denmark of yesterday, and a Europe in flames as convincing backdrop.
Just a Girl
1995
7.5When a secretary at the Danish embassy in Russia dies in suspicious circumstances, the local police seem determined to close the case. But diplomat Jack Anderson, who has been brought in to observe, falls for a beautiful singer with ties to the murder and begins his own investigation.
The Russian Singer
1993
5.9A composer with a straining birth name is caught between his mother fixation and his need to father his own ambitions. Oscar nominated short film from 1997
Wolfgang
1997
6.9At their 25th high-school anniversary some bourgeois citizens remember their time in school as a happy one. In reality it was quite the contrary. The school was a madhouse in which the teachers, especially Blomme, tormented the students. As a result one of them became a murderer.
Stolen Spring
1993
5.011-year-old Jasper may just be starting puberty, but so far he has experienced a lifetime of emotions. On the day his beloved grandfather dies, he is charged with taking care of the elder's pet cat. The local town bully, Mourids however, has his own ideas on how to take care of the frisky feline and wastes no time with showing Jasper just what he thinks of cats. Enter Far, a significantly more mature girl who Jasper is attracted to. It's love at first sight for Jasper, but will Far return the puppy love or will Jasper find out the hard way that she is actually Mourid's girlfriend?
Jasper's Ghost
1992
4.9A young writer named Espen Arnakke tells the story of his escape from the small Danish town of Jante. Espen boards a ship headed to Newfoundland, but the harsh conditions on board makes him jump ship, and he ends up in the little town of Misery Harbour. There he meets the girl of his dreams. But his passion shifts to jealousy when one of the men from the ship mysteriously appears in town, and sets out to make Espen's life a misery.
Misery Harbour
1999
6.6At age 12, Lasse is a tough guy and a bright one. His life is changed when his mother, pregnant at the time, abandons his beloved father. She takes Lasse with her to live with her new paramour, a dentist as authoritarian as Lasse's Elvis Presley-fan butcher dad was easy-going. The dentist has a daughter, too, and she is a jealous schemer. Lasse tries hard to conform, but can a tiger change its stripes?
Dance of the Polar Bears
1990
5.1Nick is a handsome 13-year-old runaway whose search for a family leads him into the arms of male prostitution. While Nick's sexual exploits with strange men keep his pockets lined with cash, the experience does nothing to preserve his waning innocence. Soon enough, he's as hardened as a man three times his age.
Pretty Boy
1993
4.5In a future surveillance and treatment society where imaginative literature is censored, author Adam Gregor lives an unhappy life. During an argument with his wife, who is prone to conformity, he pushes her over the staircase landing and now believes he has killed her. However, society does not operate with the concept of guilt, and Adam cannot be convicted of murder, but is released after psychiatric treatment. He tries to get in touch with his young son, but encounters a friendly but determined power structure. At the same time, he is monitored by the authorities, who hope he will contact his oppositionist publisher.
Manden der ville være skyldig
1990
8.0This puppet film is a visually rich interpretation of the national hero Holger Danske. The story begins with Holger's birth and baptism in pagan Denmark around the year 800. The little boy is kidnapped by the Franks, who, led by Charlemagne, are trying to unite the many peoples of Europe into one empire, under one faith. The film follows the open and charming Holger's encounter with war and love, foreign cultures and beliefs, thereby touching on some universal and eternally valid themes.
The Ballad of the Viking King, Holger the Dane
1996
1980s · 8 titles
7.5Two Danish youngsters see action in the USSR as volunteers in a special legion under German command in 1944-45. Returned to a camp in their native country, they go AWOL, having first killed a couple of officers. They are now being chased through a wintry Denmark by the German Army, Danish Quislings and the Danish freedom fighters. Love crosses their path when they take a Jewish girl as hostage.
Forræderne
1983
6.2A man has been in prison for sixteen years after killing of his wife. Now he seeks to create a new life, where he only finds warmth and fellowship with Turkish immigrants. He will also try to come to terms with the daughter who hates him. Denmark's submission for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1986.
The Dark Side of the Moon
1986
NRWhen parliamentary officer Bertelsen finds the body of a man in a light box at Christiansborg one day, he is immediately given time off with official silence, while a murder investigation is kept secret from the press. The dead man appears to be an international arms dealer, and the government has a problem explaining itself.
Tjenstlig tavshed
1984
4.6A youth film set in the summer of 1945, when the war in Europe has finally ended. For 17-year-old Herbert and his schoolmate Allan, their regular hangout is the Munich Inn, where Leo Mathisen's orchestra plays. The orchestra's drummer, Spjæt, is Herbert's idol, while Allan is more interested in the cloakroom attendant Anita than in the music. Herbert lives alone with his mother, who is a pianist. He has a job as a delivery boy at a grocery store, but supplements his income by trading on the black market. The black market goods, which can be sold at the München Kroen, are obtained in exchange for things Herbert has stolen from his mother or the grocer. Eventually, he even sells his mother's grand piano. A black American officer, whom he has befriended, intervenes when the business starts to go too far.
Take It Easy
1986
5.0Knud is a farmer and dreams of running the farm together with his wife. He has both ideas and drive, but his finances are not the best.
Land of Plenty
1983
8.0During Christmas week in 1949, escape artist Carl August Lorentzen was on the run after digging his way out of Horsens Prison. The TV movie follows the legendary escape minute by minute.
Hvor der er vilje, er der vej
1986
5.8Inspired 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 baroque stories for children, this adventurer takes the boy Hodja on a flying carpet outing. The boy wants to see the world and asks his girl-friend Emerald along. But an evil Sultan has his own designs on the carpet. Shot on Turkish locations with an extensive use of special effects.
Hodja from Pjort
1985
No synopsis available yet.
Opløsning
1988
1970s · 3 titles
7.3This is the story of Sejr, a tenant farmer, and his conflict with the dictatorial lord who stubbornly refuses to grant him the farm he needs in order to get married. However, the nobility and the peasants find common ground when a common enemy arises: the Robbers, a group of thieves who kill and rape, but also call for rebellion against those in power.
Bejleren - en jysk røverhistorie
1975
5.0An uptight, confused man lives with his wife and maid next to a big tree. He suspects people live up in the tree when he keeps finding various items and trash under the tree. The government appointed street cleaner doesn't do much, except occasionally take trashy people off the street and into the garbage. He suspects the maid of stealing food and sexual perversions, and the police precinct is literally a farm with insane cops imprisoning lamps and horses.
The Hash Tree
1973
7.0Arntsen takes things and people around him too seriously, and has therefore been awarded a disability pension. And he is not exactly clairvoyant either. But that may come, and often with female help from, for example, Vaskemutter, for whom he does the laundry, or Mette, who has her own problems and accepts him as he is – even without clothes.
Syg og Munter
1974
1960s · 3 titles
7.0One Saturday evening, Trine prepares dinner for her boyfriend Hans. Unfortunately, Hans is delayed, as on his way between Frihavnen and Valby, he encounters a series of individuals whom he feels compelled to wait for in various ways. Back at the club apartment, Trine decides to transform the romantic dinner into a kitchen party for her friends.
Det var en lørdag aften
1968
7.0Johannes is a shy and inexperienced young student at the music conservatory. He is a Mozart admirer and in love with his fellow student Elisabeth, who also seems interested in him. The smart and modern Herbert, called Pop, has dropped out of the conservatory and lives as a jazz musician and womanizer. He bets Johannes that he can sleep with Elisabeth before 8 p.m. that same day, since all girls are the same. He wins the bet, while Johannes consoles himself with Solvei, the girl who lives downstairs and works in a grocery store. In the end, Johannes and Elisabeth meet on the stairs. Can they still find each other?
They All Do It
1968
8.5Being yourself – and above all your own master – that is what the film is about. After a short stay at a girls' home, Annie returns to society and has to adapt once again. It isn't long before Annie gets involved in a deadly fight and is even taken to the police station and brought before the court. Fortunately, one of the jurors takes an interest in her and offers to take care of her and give her a home. However, Annie cannot stand this home and runs away.
Jeg er sgu min egen
1967
Undated · 1 titles
Series credits
7.6At Andersen’s Seaside Hotel by the North Sea dunes, meet three young people as they try to emancipate themselves from the plans other people have made on their behalf.
Seaside Hotel
2013
8.0The Killing is a Danish police procedural set in the Copenhagen main police department and revolves around Detective Inspector Sarah Lund and her team, with each season series following a different murder case day-by-day and a one-hour episode covering twenty-four hours of the investigation. The series is noted for its plot twists, season-long storylines, dark tone and for giving equal emphasis to the story of the murdered victim's family alongside the police investigation. It has also been singled out for the photography of its Danish setting, and for the acting ability of its cast.
The Killing
2007
7.7The Kingdom is the most technologically advanced hospital in Denmark, a gleaming bastion of medical science. A rash of uncanny occurrences, however, begins to weaken the staff's faith in science – a phantom ambulance pulls in every night, but disappears; voices echo in the elevator shaft; and a pregnant doctor's fetus seems to be developing much faster than is natural.
The Kingdom
1994
7.2Rejseholdet 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
6.7Langt fra Las Vegas is a Danish sit-com, which was first aired on the Danish TV channel TV2 Zulu. It revolved around life at a newly started TV morning show, Jump Start, and focused on the life of the main character, Casper. Langt fra Las Vegas consisted of 53 episodes, aired over 5 seasons with each episode lasting 25 minutes. It ran from 2001-2003.
Far from Las Vegas
2001
6.6The story centers on a family of priests: Johannes, Elisabeth and their sons August and Christian. Johannes is God-like to his sons - he gives, loves, and punishes. His favoritism for August and his disappointment with Christian forces both into making desperate choices in order to either gain his love or break free from him.
Ride Upon the Storm
2017
8.0No synopsis available yet.
Skjulte spor
2000
8.0No synopsis available yet.
Skjulte spor
2000
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Landsbyen
1991
5.7Copenhagen thirtysomethings Nikolaj and Julie struggle with marriage, baby and work, plus friends of varying maturity.
Nikolaj and Julie
2002
10.0Court drama about a Copenhagen law office and the cases and personal entanglements of its small group of attorneys.
Defense
2003
7.0Strisser på Samsø is a Danish television series in 12 episodes, written and directed by Eddie Thomas Petersen. Produced by Per Holst Filmproduktion, it was first broadcast on TV2 in 1997-1998. The story tells how Christian Torp, a police officer who has lost his wife in an unsuccessful robbery, brings his daughter Sille to the Danish island of Samsø looking for peace and quiet. They have difficulty in integrating into a society full of problems where everyone knows everything about everybody, but they find a friend in Ulla, a secretary. Among others, it stars Lars Bom, Amalie Dollerup and Jesper Milsted. The series was entitled "Island Cop" when broadcast in subtitled form on Ireland's TG4 channel.
Strisser på Samsø
1997
7.5No synopsis available yet.
Nynne
2006
9.0About when Sweden attacked Denmark in 1658.
The Gønge Chieftain
1992
8.0No synopsis available yet.
Madsen & Co.
1996
9.0No synopsis available yet.
Morten Korch - Ved stillebækken
1999
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Station 13
1988
6.7No synopsis available yet.
Pyrus i Alletiders Eventyr
2000
5.6No synopsis available yet.
Jungledyret Hugo
2003
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Finn'sk fjernsyn
1999
7.5No synopsis available yet.
Kaj Munk
1986
7.5The life of the Danish revue singer Liva Weel (1897-1952), who became very beloved in a series of films. During the Nazi German occupation of Denmark she achieved further renown through the encouraging songs of Poul Henningsen.
Call Me Liva
1992
8.5A young man on the run after a stay in prison is chased through the Northern parts of Scandinavia for a murder he has not committed.
The Shadow of Freedom
1994
NRFollowing a old Circus artist now having a circus school and his family, a great entertaining series typical for Danish TV in the beginning to mid eighties.
Familien Krahne
1982
5.2No synopsis available yet.
Compound interest
1996
