Christian Braad Thomsen

Directing

Christian Braad Thomsen

Place of birth

Hørning, Danmark

Known for

Directing

Credits

23 titles

Known for

Klovn poster
8.4

Klovn is a Danish sitcom, which first aired on the Danish TV channel TV2 Zulu. It focuses on the life of the main character Frank and Casper. The show builds its comedy around quiet everyday situations, social awkwardness, uncomfortable silences and general faux pas. Klovn usually gets compared to the American sitcom Curb Your Enthusiasm by Larry David. It’s also shot handheld, in a pseudo-realistic style. Some have also mistakenly compared the theme to Curb Your Enthusiasm’s, despite it being a direct reference to Jacques Tati’s Mr. Hulot movies. The poster for the first film can be seen in Casper and Frank’s offices throughout the series. Klovn initially ran 6 seasons on TV2 Zulu from 2005-2009 and was renewed with an additional 3 seasons that aired from 2018-2022.

Klovn

2005

Filmmakers in Action poster
7.2

What is the state of cinema and what being a filmmaker means? What are the measures taken to protect authors' copyright? What is their legal status in different countries? (Sequel to “Filmmakers vs. Tycoons.”)

Filmmakers in Action

2006

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An interview with Yugoslavian director Dušan Makavejev.

Dušan Makavejev

1974

Zero point poster
NR

A film experiment that uses a monotonous technique to depict a monotonous slice of daily life.

Zero point

1971

Fassbinder: Love Without Demands poster
6.4

Rainer Werner Fassbinder was probably Germany’s most significant post-war director. His swift and dramatic demise at the early age of 37 in 1982 left behind a vacuum in European filmmaking that has yet to be filled, as well as a body of unique, multi-layered, and multifarious work of astonishing consistency and rigour. From 1969 onwards, Danish director and film historian Christian Braad Thomsen maintained a close yet respectfully distanced friendship with Fassbinder. The film is based on his personal memories as well as a series of conversations and interviews he held with Fassbinder and his mother, Lilo, in the 1970s.

Fassbinder: Love Without Demands

2015

The Man Who Couldn't Say No poster
7.1

Rasmus is a commissioning editor prepared to go to lengths to keep people happy - which is just what he has to do, because Rasmus has a problem. He can't say no. To his ex-girlfriend who wants a baby or his new girlfriend, who wants things clear cut, or his author pal, who wants to write for a limited audience, or his new boss, who wants to publish sex guides.

The Man Who Couldn't Say No

2002

Film credits

Series credits

Behind the camera

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An interview with Yugoslavian director Dušan Makavejev.

Dušan Makavejev

1974

Zero point poster
NR

A film experiment that uses a monotonous technique to depict a monotonous slice of daily life.

Zero point

1971

Zero point poster
NR

A film experiment that uses a monotonous technique to depict a monotonous slice of daily life.

Zero point

1971

Fassbinder: Love Without Demands poster
6.4

Rainer Werner Fassbinder was probably Germany’s most significant post-war director. His swift and dramatic demise at the early age of 37 in 1982 left behind a vacuum in European filmmaking that has yet to be filled, as well as a body of unique, multi-layered, and multifarious work of astonishing consistency and rigour. From 1969 onwards, Danish director and film historian Christian Braad Thomsen maintained a close yet respectfully distanced friendship with Fassbinder. The film is based on his personal memories as well as a series of conversations and interviews he held with Fassbinder and his mother, Lilo, in the 1970s.

Fassbinder: Love Without Demands

2015

Isolde poster
10.0

After librarian Isolde attempts suicide, she leaves her politician husband for a younger student with a dark past. Isolde's former husband, however, has something else in mind for the young man.

Isolde

1989

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9.5

It has hardly been seen before that a 83-year-old actor has starred in a Danish film, but it is the case here, where Kai Holm says goodbye to a long life in film and theater service. He plays an old peasant who on his deathbed is waiting for his son (Jon Bang Carlsen). In a few days he relives the village life, he comes from, and which was marked by a hard and authoritarian upbringing. He is at his father's deathbed despair because it is still impossible to make contact, and in a crisis situation, he recognizes his father's brutality in itself. The film draws a bitter picture of human relationships where dreams while they die, degenerates into power relations.

Dreams Don't Make Noise When They Die

1979

Dear Irene poster
4.8

Description of Irene, a modern, free-spirited girl with a good job as press secretary for a film company. Nevertheless, she finds it difficult to get a grip on her life. She has grown distant from her husband, but for her daughter's sake she does not want to divorce him. Her lover Ebbe, a controversial journalist, is closer to her, but his violent infatuation can also be too much of a good thing. In a series of casual erotic relationships, Irene does not find what she is looking for either.

Dear Irene

1971

Dear Irene poster
4.8

Description of Irene, a modern, free-spirited girl with a good job as press secretary for a film company. Nevertheless, she finds it difficult to get a grip on her life. She has grown distant from her husband, but for her daughter's sake she does not want to divorce him. Her lover Ebbe, a controversial journalist, is closer to her, but his violent infatuation can also be too much of a good thing. In a series of casual erotic relationships, Irene does not find what she is looking for either.

Dear Irene

1971

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

Inger Christensen - The cicadas exist poster
9.0

In this portrait film, we meet Inger Christensen in her apartment in Østerbro, Copenhagen, where she tells of her life and work, and reads excerpts from her major works.

Inger Christensen - The cicadas exist

1998

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

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

Karen Blixen: Storyteller poster
8.8

A look at the life of esteemed Danish writer Karen Blixen.

Karen Blixen: Storyteller

1995

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

Slumstormerne poster
10.0

The story of life and everyday existence in the squatters collective ‘Jægergården’ located at Jægersborggade 3 in Nørrebro in the winter of 1970-71, where fifty young people occupied a property that had been vacant for two years. The director interviews neighbors, people on the street, and residents of the collective. After three months of occupation, they were evicted by the police.

Slumstormerne

1971

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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