
Acting
Torben Zeller
Born
1949-12-04 (76)
Place of birth
Danmark
Known for
Acting
Credits
52 titles
Known for
10.0No synopsis available yet.
Krejlerkongen
2015
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
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
NRDansk Melodi Grand Prix is an annual music competition organised by Danish public broadcaster Danmarks Radio, which determines the country's representative for the Eurovision Song Contest. The festival has produced three Eurovision winners and thirteen top-five placings.
Dansk Melodi Grand Prix
1978
6.3The lives of two fictional families during the historical development of Danmarks Radio television network from the 1950s to the 1970s.
Better Times
2004
7.6A policewoman is doing her best at the job, but struggles to be there for her son.
Anna Pihl
2006
Film credits
2020s · 4 titles
6.1After their mother's death, Oskar leans on brother Karl. But Karl's bakery faces court due to their father's debt. United, can they save it?
Better Times
2023
NRUncovering her late husband's infidelity in old letters, the recently widowed Gerda copes by meticulously tending to graves and embarking on a quest to find his male lover.
The Wake
2023
No synopsis available yet.
Den verden vi valgte
2020
6.4Three very different people randomly meet each other and finds out they all have something in common.
Peculiar People
2023
2010s · 6 titles
NRJane is a boxer, preparing for the championship of her life. She wants to win but it's difficult to keep focus when her girlfriend Tanja wants to start a family. When Jane meets Karoline new emotions arises and she decides to leave Tanja. The training escalates, and suddenly Jane seems to be unable to get the firm foothold that she so desperately needs in both her life and in her career.
Boxer
2017
6.0When he learns that his Aunt Fatwa has received the honorary title, the Jewel of India, Iqbal sees an opportunity to get out of school and convinces his dad to take the whole family to India for the ceremony. But when an accident leads the principal to expel Iqbal from school, his dad refuses to take him, demanding that Iqbal take responsibility by finding a new school to enroll in. Iqbal calls his aunt and asks to be enrolled at an Indian school.
Iqbal & the Jewel of India
2018
4.5When career criminal John - the character from Clausen's drama-comedy »Temporary Release« (2007) - is granted parole, he hastens to Jutland to visit his son who is in difficulty. John might be a dedicated father, a perfect employee, and a great line-dancer, but life isn't exactly plain sailing.
Freedom on Parole
2010
4.0It's the big day of Mathias' confirmation, where he will confirm being a Christian and enter adulthood. Mathias is transgender and just wants to be a normal teenage boy. His mother does everything to protect him, but who is this day really about?
The Confirmation
2019
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
1.0A darkly humorous drama about 39-year-old musician Jacob, who has shut himself away with his music and Nescafé in his apartment in Vesterbro. One day, Jacob's best friend Søren moves in when he and his girlfriend decide to take a break. Søren's arrival pushes Jacob out of his solitary existence and forces him to look up from his screen, lift his nose out of his coffee cup, and reevaluate his life.
Sort kaffe & vinyl
2012
2000s · 3 titles
7.5Svensson is a wealthy, aging blusterer who has just had a rather unusual funeral for his late wife and is now on his way to Spain with his cracker of a young mistress. But his trip is delayed when a lawyer turns up with a paternity suit. With a young undertaker as the new chauffeur at the wheel of his Jag, he sets off to confront the woman who claims to be the mother of his unknown daughter, turning his life and that of his companion upside down in the process.
One-Hand Clapping
2001
8.9As the 30-year crisis looms, five older young people in Copenhagen find good reason to reconsider their lives. Dennis is about to move in with Kirsten, but he has his reservations, and she has her own unconscious agenda. Thomas and Søs have lived together for several years, but never before have they found reason to doubt the strength of their relationship, given her desire to have children. And Mads is a professional soccer player who has to deal with his own and everyone else's expectations. All of them come to realize that when you are forced to make a choice without knowing the consequences in advance, it can be more than difficult to figure out the next step.
Next Step
2007
7.2Krumme argues with his whole class about whether Santa Claus exists. Up at Santa's house, the magic book has disappeared, and that means the end of Christmas. So now Krumme has to prove that Santa Claus exists and save Christmas. But the robbers Boris and Ivan are also on the hunt for Santa's book. All in all, a perfectly normal Christmas at the Krummer family's house.
The Crumbs: Now It's Christmas Again
2006
1990s · 11 titles
6.0The Krunborg family has new problems: a freshly painted house that won't dry, a tent with holes and a car that won't go anywhere and much much more.
The Crumbs 3: Dad's Bright Idea
1994
6.4Torben's father and farmer Jacob make a trade. Jacob gets a gearbox and Torben's father gets peace: Torben must be at farmer Jacob on the farm the rest of his summer holidays. It was Jacob never have done ...! Absolutely terrific Danish family comedy in the best action-style. Wild bass played by Robert Hansen, known from Anja and Viktor films and family Gregersen. Moreover contributes among other Preben Kristensen, Viggo Summer and Dick Kaysø and many more ...
The Rascal
1994
5.9The Snooks (singular!) derives his name from the Danish expression "leaving the Snooks behind" much used by 7-year-old Eigil's parents to indicate somebody's going nuts. This being a live action-cum-puppet animation film, Eigil's own imagination turns the Snooks into an amiable gnome-like little fellow and best friend during a summer holiday. When they are being joined by a cat, the fun really begins.
The Snooks
1992
7.6The mutant fetus is born. Dr. Helmer comes under heavy scrutiny for a botched operation that left a patient braindead, and begins to dabble in the dark arts in order to ward off those seeking an end to his career. Hypochondriac Mrs. Drusse finally does have something bad happen to her medically when an ambulance hits her.
The Kingdom II
1998
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
8.0Detective Mortensen is certainly not the sharpest tool in the shed, but despite his obvious incompetence, he is assigned to track down a group of drug gangsters. Nothing good comes of it. Only coincidences and extreme luck keep the investigation on track, even though Mortensen's highly questionable methods constantly threaten to ruin everything.
Bananen - Skræl den før din nabo!
1990
7.2Combining the exultant sweep of epic period drama with the subtle intimacy of biography in a social perspective, this is a tale of materially impoverished childhood, struggling early manhood and an unrequited first love turned into good musical fortune for Carl Nielsen, one of the great composers of the 20th century. Based on the composer's autobiography, the film itself is designed to soar like a symphony.
Carl, My Childhood Symphony
1994
5.3Adam and Eva Nymann and their 5-year-old daughter, Rose, are a typical 1997 family with two full-time jobs, daycare, and stress. Although Adam helps out at home, Eva is still primarily responsible for the child and the household. One morning, when Adam is dropping Rose off at daycare, they are involved in a serious traffic accident. In a near-death experience, Adam meets their two guardian angels. They tell him that Rose is dying, while Adam himself will die. But the angels give Adam another chance.
Skat, det er din tur
1997
6.0When the hot-dog vendor Kaj from the small town of Skælskør in Denmark turns 40, his friends take him on a trip to Poland, to a long party with cheap liquor and emigration eager polish ladies. It will go merrily, but it gets serious for Kaj as he meets a girl who mistakes him for a wealthy Toyota dealer she has exchanged letters with.
The Birthday Trip
1990
6.2The 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
6.5No synopsis available yet.
Royal Blues
1997
1980s · 3 titles
6.5Criminal genius Egon Olsen presents his accomplices Benny and Keld with yet another infallible plan that can only end badly. The booty is a red suitcase containing values worth five million. The sinister mastermind Bang-Johansen carries the suitcase. The Olsen Gang follows him to Paris, where they put their cunning and carefully organized plan into motion.
The Olsen Gang Long Gone
1981
8.5A farce about cousins Aage and Viggo, whom Aage's girlfriend Else no longer wants living with them. The cousins then become embroiled in a rebellion against their workplace, Multi-Max, and against society in general, with chaotic consequences.
Undskyld vi er her
1980
6.4Jeppe is a bedraggled day laborer whose great vice is brandy. And when he falls down drunk in the field, a passing baron is tempted to play a prank on Jeppe. The baron's lackeys carry the sleeping Jeppe up to the castle, dress him in the baron's finest bedclothes, and lay him in the baron's bed. When Jeppe wakes up, he thinks he is dead and has gone to heaven. But gradually, the baron's persistent lackeys manage to convince him that he is actually the baron himself. Jeppe soon takes advantage of this to take revenge on old enemies and indulge in old vices...
Jeppe på Bjerget
1981
1970s · 2 titles
6.2About the traditional celebration at Christmas. It is a safety valve, a cleansing bath that gives strength and zest for life well into the new year. "People meet" – and masks fall around the lavishly laid tables, where the director and the workers drink together. Local democracy works – and long-standing marriages falter! However, very few Christmas parties reach the same heights as the one enjoyed by the staff at Simonsens Bijouteri Fabrik.
Julefrokosten
1976
Two couples are each heading for divorce. The academics Lene and Lars after less than two years of marriage, while working class Lone and Peter are to split after 12 years. How did it come to this? Switching between the two marriages, their stories are being uncovered from social, psychological, political and sexual perspectives. Does it come to a verdict on marriage as an institution?
Skilsmissebilleder
1978
Series credits
10.0No synopsis available yet.
Krejlerkongen
2015
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
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
NRDansk Melodi Grand Prix is an annual music competition organised by Danish public broadcaster Danmarks Radio, which determines the country's representative for the Eurovision Song Contest. The festival has produced three Eurovision winners and thirteen top-five placings.
Dansk Melodi Grand Prix
1978
6.3The lives of two fictional families during the historical development of Danmarks Radio television network from the 1950s to the 1970s.
Better Times
2004
7.6A policewoman is doing her best at the job, but struggles to be there for her son.
Anna Pihl
2006
10.0Court drama about a Copenhagen law office and the cases and personal entanglements of its small group of attorneys.
Defense
2003
4.2A story about Carlsberg founder JC Jacobsen, his son Carl, and their struggle to create a brewing company, and simultaneously a look at fifty years of Danish history.
Bryggeren
1996
6.0No synopsis available yet.
Lykke
2011
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
8.0Mathias owns a shop on the corner and when a beautiful girl moves in across the street, he tries everything to get her attention, with the help of his two best friends, Aslan and Theis.
Tomgang
2013
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Det sene show med Christian Fuhlendorff
2016
8.6Krummernes Christmas is a Danish TV Christmas calendar that was first broadcast on TV 2 in 1996 and re-broadcast on the same channel in 2001. The Christmas calendar is based on the books on Krummerne
Krummernes jul
1996
8.2Josefine’s birthday is on Christmas Eve, and she’s getting pretty tired of that. She decides to move Christmas and gets help from a magical nativity scene that sends her back to the time when Jesus was her own age. She becomes friends with Jesus, but a whole series of questions now arise: What about her classmate Oskar, who wants to be more than friends? And who is the mysterious Thorsen, the owner of the time machine?
Jesus & Josefine
2003
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Carmen & Colombo
2011
5.6No synopsis available yet.
Jungledyret Hugo
2003
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Mille
2009
9.5No synopsis available yet.
Parløb
1990
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Da jeg var ung
2026
8.5No synopsis available yet.
Andersens Julehemmelighed
1993
8.0No synopsis available yet.
Hatten rundt
1997
8.0The actors from ”Hatten Rundt” are here in a new kind of improvised theatre. The only rule for the show is that it takes place in Nørre Omme State Prison.
Hatten i skyggen
2002
9.0No synopsis available yet.
Så hatten passer
1991
