Per Pallesen

Acting

Per Pallesen

Born 1942-04-30 · Aars, Denmark

Acting credits

Samson & Sally poster
6.1

Samson is a young whale that doesn't have friends. He spends his time listening to his mother's stories about the legendary whale Moby Dick. Samson becomes fascinated about it and decides to go on a journey to find Moby Dick.

Samson & Sally

1984

The Revolt of the Thralls poster
7.5

A three part story about the plague, religion and revolt in Northern Europe in the period 1349 to 1542.

The Revolt of the Thralls

1979

Troubadouren poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Troubadouren

1977

The Song of the Red Ruby poster
5.6

A young, idealistic business student has ambitions to be a concert pianist, but his obsession with beautiful women keeps him from achieving his goal. To earn money for his tuition, he takes a job as headmaster of a small girls' school. There his weakness for beautiful women is put to the test when he is pursued by a bevy of sexy coeds.

The Song of the Red Ruby

1970

Med Lill-Klas i kappsäcken poster
6.5

The siblings Niklas and Anneli must accompany their slightly giddy aunt Tinne to the Zoo in Copenhagen. The visit to the zoo has quite different consequences than Aunt Tinne has ever dreamt of. When the children win a real pony in a lottery they have to bring it home to Stockholm without anyone noticing.

Med Lill-Klas i kappsäcken

1983

Sex and the Law poster
4.8

A look at what happened when Denmark abolished censorship in the late 1960s.

Sex and the Law

1968

No artwork available
4.7

A family is called together in unusual circumstances when a nursing home rings them all for help when there elderly father locks himself in a closet and refuses to come out. Nominated for an Oscar for Best Live Action Short Film.

Helmer & Son

2006

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

Don Juan poster
10.0

Don Juan has betrayed and abandoned Donna Elvira, who loves him. Sganarelle, his servant, speaks his mind bluntly: "A great man and an evil man in one person is a terrible thing." TV adaptation of Molière's comedy from 1665.

Don Juan

1973

Me and Charly poster
6.2

Steffen is a good kid, a teenager who has recently finished school and is looking for work. He lives with his widowed mother, a newspaper reporter. Very little throws him off his stride, whether it is his girlfriend's jealousy of his friendship with Charly, a reform-school boy, or his mother's drunken, playful amorousness one night, because he reminds her of his father.

Me and Charly

1978

Girls at Arms poster
5.3

A comedy about girls joining the army in Denmark. Marianne joins to keep up a long family tradition as her brother won't. Both her brother and her boyfriend find her decision difficult to accept.

Girls at Arms

1975

The Olsen Gang Never Surrenders poster
6.8

Egon plans to exploit knowledge gained during his latest term of incarceration. By stealing the unmanipulated financial records of DanInvest he obtains the majority of the stocks in the department store Magasin du Nord, just in time for their closing sale. The attempt to get the red suitcase that will save the day they rob the main vault at the EEC headquarters in Brussels and end up hijacking a tank.

The Olsen Gang Never Surrenders

1979

Sigurd Fafnersbane poster
NR

An animated retelling of the legendary hero Sigurd of Norse folklore.

Sigurd Fafnersbane

1981

The Olsen Gang Runs Amok poster
6.9

When Egon Olsen gets out of Vridlose State Prision once again, his friends Benny and Kjeld do not want to know about his new ingenious plan: they are actually WORKING in a shop! Thus, he has to think of something else to get his hands on the money of some international gangster.

The Olsen Gang Runs Amok

1973

Girls at Sea poster
5.6

Women have joined the military in Denmark but may still not serve in the navy. This makes the lives of the sailors difficult when three women get trapped on board of a navy vessel do to an surprise exercise at sea. Trying to hide the three women leads to comical situations.

Girls at Sea

1977

The Chronic Innocence poster
5.8

For Janus his friend Tore is his big ideal: pretty, intelligent and self-confident. Janus is grateful for his friendship even though he is considered the court jester. When Tore falls in love with the beautiful and sweet girl Helle, Janus accepts his role as their highly loved third party. Helle's fashionable mother, however, is a bit too interested in Tore. Written by Allan Simonsen

The Chronic Innocence

1985

Black-out poster
7.7

Five young people take part in a party. During the party, a man is hit and killed nearby. The driver flees. The next day, one of the young people cannot remember anything about the time surrounding the accident. Is he the perpetrator? A witness leads the police on the trail.

Black-out

1969

Nyhavns glade gutter poster
5.5

The con artist Prince Fingernem is a regular customer of the waitresses Mona Lisa and young Vicky at the Trinidad tavern – a small, damp paradise in Nyhavn. But paradise also has a snake, of course, Mr. Schwartz, who has big plans for the area.

Nyhavns glade gutter

1967

Dreaming of Paradise poster
6.4

Strit and her friends live in the future where the Earth has become so polluted that they must live underground. As legend has it, a creature that “Walks on Air” will guide them to a place where there are blue skies and green meadows.Set in a world so ravaged by pollution that the humans have been forced underground, this distinguished animated cautionary tale warns of the consequences of our current disregard for the environment as it tells the story of a young girl and her friends who set off on an exciting quest for the pristine, natural paradise of their dreams.

Dreaming of Paradise

1987

Pallesen Pilmark Show poster
10.0

The Pallesen Pilmark Show was a Danish musical comedy show featuring Per Pallesen and Søren Pilmark. The style was wordless deadpan with a series of physical gags centered around two grand pianos with the two comedians dressed in tuxedos. Victor Borge may have been the inspiration. The show toured the Middle East and the US.

Pallesen Pilmark Show

1984

It's a World Full of Children poster
5.2

Susanne, a journalist, and Morten, a cellist, desperately want a child, but are unsuccessful. The situation leads to desperate acts, occasional drunkenness, and solace for her with a discreet lover.

It's a World Full of Children

1980

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

The Marksman poster
6.6

A man decides to perpetrate a series of killings and publicise them as political acts in an attempt to protest against nuclear armaments.

The Marksman

1977

Camping poster
5.0

Per is a traveling man who makes a living setting up new campsites—financed by a rather clueless telephone company and a gawking power plant. Søren has been in prison for eight years for bank robbery—but now he is free and ready to retrieve the buried money. To his great despair, he sees the campsite right where the loot is buried. Together with his greedy girlfriend and her four children, he tries to come up with a plan – but it will take a lot of imagination to get hold of the money.

Camping

1990

Behind the camera