Jens Jørn Spottag

Acting

Jens Jørn Spottag

Born 1957-12-13 · Odder, Denmark

Acting credits

The Idiots poster
6.5

A group of people gather at a Copenhagen suburban home to break all the limitations and to bring out the 'inner idiot' in themselves.

The Idiots

1998

B.O.Y.: Bruises of Yesterday poster
7.7

A 16-year-old boy who spend summer with his grandparents falls in love with an older young man but when tragedy strikes, he falls into a dark hole of self-harm, lust, and loneliness.

B.O.Y.: Bruises of Yesterday

2024

We Shall Overcome poster
7.3

A 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

Held for Ransom poster
7.0

HELD FOR RANSOM tells the true story of Danish photojournalist Daniel Rye who was held hostage for 398 days in Syria by the terror organization ISIS along with several other foreign nationals including the American journalist, James Foley. The film follows Daniel’s struggle to survive in captivity, his friendship with James, and the nightmare of the Rye family back home in Denmark as they try to do everything in their power to save their son. At the center of this crisis, we find hostage negotiator, Arthur, who plays a pivotal role in securing Daniel’s release.

Held for Ransom

2019

Worlds Apart poster
6.2

17-year-old Sara leads a sheltered existence with her family, members of Jehovah’s Witnesses, when she meets the outsider Teis and falls in love. Sara, herself a believer, now faces an important turning point in her life as she is forced to choose between religion and love.

Worlds Apart

2008

Deep Water poster
6.2

The film is about a man (played by Jens Jørn Spottag) who is involved in a series of trouble and sinking deeper every time he tried to cover up the previous problem.

Deep Water

1999

This Life poster
5.9

The true story of the Fiils: a family of innkeepers who, during Nazi-Germany's occupation of Denmark, took up arms against the German occupiers. But in the fight for freedom, some must die so that others may live.

This Life

2012

Room 304 poster
6.4

In a Copenhagen hotel, disparate lives intersect through accident or fate: A stewardess desperate for intimacy. An immigrant obsessed with revenge. A hotel manager lost in despair. A wife abandoned by her husband. A receptionist with blood on his hands. People meet in the intimacy of hotel rooms, secrets are revealed and unexpected events merge into a dramatic tale of love and longing.

Room 304

2011

Ernst & the Light poster
6.9

The businessman Ernst has just landed in the airport and is on his way home to his wife. Its raining heavy outside and therefore he takes a hitchhiker with him. They start a conversation about the value of life and soon it becomes evident to the spectators that the hitchhiker is Jesus Christ, but Ernst is in too much of a rush to go back to his wife to notice.

Ernst & the Light

1996

Before It Ends poster
7.0

When a folk high school is turned into an internment camp for German refugees, the headmaster couple Jakob and Lis and their children are thrust into an impossible situation. Should the family help the refugees — or stand firm in the Danish resistance against the Germans?

Before It Ends

2023

Speed Walking poster
6.4

In a quirky, small town, situated in the outskirts of everything, 14-year-old Martin is getting ready for one of the most formal transitions from boy to man; the communion. It's 1976, music's in the air and hormones are blossoming. But in the midst of it all Martin's mother suddenly passes away and her tragic death trickers a series of events that not only changes Martin's life forever, but also affects everyone else in the local community. Overwhelmed with grief neither Martin's dad, nor his older brother, is capable to comfort Martin. He enters adulthood in a mixture of drunken happiness and immense sadness over the loss of his mother, and his relationship to both his friend Kim and girlfriend Kristine comes to its natural conclusion.

Speed Walking

2014

The Land of Short Sentences poster
6.2

Marie's life gets turned upside down when the love of her life, Rasmus, takes on a teaching job at a local school in West Jutland, Denmark. Rather unwillingly, Marie joins Rasmus in moving their roots from Copenhagen to the windy town, Velling. While Rasmus is an immediate match to the local ways, it becomes a culture chock for Marie, who time and time again proves herself a misfit to the locals. However, as she gradually learns to listen more and talk less, she realizes that she might need Velling as much as Velling needs her – and her advice column for the local newspaper.

The Land of Short Sentences

2023

The Kingdom II poster
7.6

The 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

The Day Will Come poster
7.6

Set in the blooming 1960s, the film centres on two young brothers who are instantly robbed of their lives when they are placed in a boy's home forgotten by time. Armed only with a vivid imagination and a fickle hope, the boys engage in the frightening battle against Headmaster Heck and his lethal tyranny. The film is based on actual events.

The Day Will Come

2016

ID:A poster
6.0

A woman wakes up in a river. Wounded and without memory, she races to elude mysterious followers and recover from amnesia.

ID:A

2011

Med lukkede øjne poster
4.8

Tom is a renowned author who is about to suffocate from the shame of not having written a new, good book for over 20 years. But then he meets Renee, a young female admirer who gives him a renewed lust for life. Soon, they move together and settle on the country, away from both Tom's ex-wife and his demanding editor. But life in the countryside does not only offer tranquility for the couple in love. Some local people begin to harass the two with a threatening behavior, and their lives are soon turned into a nightmare ...

Med lukkede øjne

2010

Black Harvest poster
5.4

Family drama set in the Danish countryside in the turn of the century. A wealthy landowner is an evil and corrupt womaniser with several illegitimate offspring in addition to his beautiful family. Nobody stands up to him except his feisty 17-year-old daughter.

Black Harvest

1993

Lulu poster
4.1

Henrik and his younger lover Lulu go on an intimate trip to France. Unexpectedly, Henrik's son, David, arrives.

Lulu

2014

Knight of Fortune poster
6.8

The loss of a loved one, the grief, the risk of yellow skin, and a coffin, that is too much for Karl to face. Then it's much easier to fix a broken lamp. Karl meets Torben, a destined brother. An absurd, humorous, and melodic meeting between two old men captured by grief.

Knight of Fortune

2024

No artwork available
NR

Simon is a 25-year-old man who lives as an outcast in a small community with his father. The annual harvest festival is the highlight of the community's year, but after a tragic incident at last year's festival, neither Simon nor his father have been invited.

Høstfest

2015

Ravens poster
6.0

A hard-working farmer, despairing by the harsh reality of his daily struggle, is determined to have his son taking over the farm and continue his legacy. The mother tries her best to keep the family together. Yet, with increasing horror, the son witnesses his father's psychotic behavior escalate.

Ravens

2017

1864: Brødre i krig poster
6.4

When Prussia and Austria declare war on Denmark, two brothers are called to serve in the bloodiest battle in Denmark's history.

1864: Brødre i krig

2014

Player poster
4.2

Player follows a righteous, self-controlled and rather boring lawyer, who is sent to Nice on a divorce case. As he arrives, everything starts go wrong – he is cheated out of $2 million company money and the future looks bleak, when he meets his old buddy, a gambler of easy virtue.

Player

2013

Better Times poster
6.1

After 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