Frits Helmuth

Acting

Frits Helmuth

Born — Died

1931-07-03 — 2004-12-12

Place of birth

Copenhagen, Denmark

Known for

Acting

Credits

59 titles

Known for

Bryggeren poster
4.2

A 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

Kikkebakke Boligby poster
8.0

In the residential area stands the apartment building Kikkebakke, home to a motley crew of residents. Among them are the grumpy Gniske and Mrs. Vivaldi with her spaghetti machine. At Father Alfred's house, the kitchen is a hive of activity when it's time to do the dishes—so why not invent a clever machine that can do it? Kikkebakke Boligby is also home to Freddy, Carla, Skorstens-Per, Mrs. Brand, Mr. Matrikelhys, and businessman Sommer, who behind closed blinds becomes the muscle man Mr. Pølzenmuskel!

Kikkebakke Boligby

1977

Flickering Lights poster
7.2

Four small gangsters from Copenhagen trick a gangster boss: they take over 4,000,000 kroner which they were supposed to bring him. Trying to escape to Barcelona they are forced to stop in the countryside, in an old, wrecked house, hiding there for several weeks. Slowly, one after another, they realize, that they would like to stay there, start a new life.

Flickering Lights

2000

The Shadow of Freedom poster
8.5

A 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

In the Middle of the Night poster
6.7

Benny and Arnold are homeless and along with others living on Nørrebro in Copenhagen. The police is set to clear the building they squat in, but on the night of the forced eviction, local acid head Spacy jumps from the sixth floor.

In the Middle of the Night

1984

Wolfgang poster
5.9

A 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

Film credits

2000s · 5 titles

Flickering Lights poster
7.2

Four small gangsters from Copenhagen trick a gangster boss: they take over 4,000,000 kroner which they were supposed to bring him. Trying to escape to Barcelona they are forced to stop in the countryside, in an old, wrecked house, hiding there for several weeks. Slowly, one after another, they realize, that they would like to stay there, start a new life.

Flickering Lights

2000

Oskar and Josefine poster
5.9

Oscar and Josefine are celebrating Midsummer with Oscar's grandparents in the country. A demon, Thorsen, gives Josefine the gift of enabling her to travel back in time. Visiting Oscar's family in the 17th century, Josefine saves a sickly young girl from the stake. But now the villagers see Josefine as a witch and want to burn her at the stake instead.

Oskar and Josefine

2005

Villa Paranoia poster
6.2

Anna, a young and aspiring actress who has not had much success, offers to care for the father of Jorgen, who has been burdened with the responsibility. The father, Walentin, is in a mostly comatose state, which makes him the perfect audience for Anna, who begins acting out her scenes in front of him. Gradually, Walentin shows signs of recovery -- but is this due to Anna's kindness, or is it possible that the old man is a pretty good actor himself?

Villa Paranoia

2004

A Place Nearby poster
6.2

The city is gasping for air in the scorching summer heat; everyone is under suspicion; a persistent detective superintendent is burrowing for the truth. A fiercely penetrating drama about a mother's love for her autistic adult son, who is suspected of murdering a local girl. The mother knows her son could have committed the murder, but she conceals her knowledge, and gradually becomes entangled in a thicket of lies. How far is she prepared to go to protect her son who is helpless in so many ways? Does she have it within her to give up the only person she loves?

A Place Nearby

2000

No artwork available
7.5

No synopsis available yet.

2. juledag

2000

1990s · 7 titles

Wolfgang poster
5.9

A 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

Høfeber poster
7.2

A confrontational and friendly judge gets in trouble when his wife is trying to arouse his jealousy of her long-term relationship with their mutual friend Chief Klausen. Superintendent and is still convinced that he strives against his life. At the same time the judge's chess friend Lise not stand that he was not hitting on her. All intricacies rubs judge with a serious time hay fever

Høfeber

1991

No artwork available
10.0

Nielsen is a quiet, respectable man who has always worked at the same bank and is turning 60 today—but he is also a man with a secret, a passion. Only when he meets Frank, a different kind of energetic taxi driver, does he manage to take control of his own life again and come to terms with the past that has held him back.

Looping

1996

Stolen Spring poster
6.9

At 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

Carl, My Childhood Symphony poster
7.2

Combining 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

1996: Pust på meg! poster
6.0

On a day in April 1996, four stories play out in the confines of a flat in the heart of Oslo.

1996: Pust på meg!

1997

No artwork available
8.0

The insecure apprentice waiter, Axel, is reprimanded by the old master, Fendrup, for his unpolished serving technique: 'It is necessary to dare to give a part of yourself in order to be able to provide the sublime. Do you dare, Axel?' This evening's 100th birthday party develops into Axel's dizzying encounter with love - of food, wine and the woman he serves for.

Debut

1995

1980s · 7 titles

In the Middle of the Night poster
6.7

Benny and Arnold are homeless and along with others living on Nørrebro in Copenhagen. The police is set to clear the building they squat in, but on the night of the forced eviction, local acid head Spacy jumps from the sixth floor.

In the Middle of the Night

1984

Wolf Hour poster
6.7

The adaptation of Helle Stangerup's psychological horror, telling the story of a married couple who raises wolfes, in order for the husband to study the creatures. They hire Ellinor for additional help, but soon they wonder if she guards supernatural secrets.

Wolf Hour

1981

Elise poster
4.2

In a sexual and romantic drama of intrigue, lies, and gossip, a young woman over a long period of time, has children by both men, her husband and lover before her deception begins to fall apart. Elise (Ann-Mari Max Hansen) is an outgoing, happy woman married to Henry (Ole Ernst), the town doctor. Because of a mix-up one day, she finds herself first compromised and then romantically involved with William (Henning Jensen), a captain of the Dragoons. Her story is told from the viewpoint of the town vicar, who may not be such an innocent bystander as he first seems. Eventually, gossip begins to run rampant, and Elise's life heads for a radical change.

Elise

1985

Forræderne poster
7.5

Two 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

No artwork available
NR

A fantasy film about a girl who must set out to find the werewolf she has been connected to since childhood, redeem it, and shoot it.

Driver dug, falder rim

1985

Memories of a Marriage poster
6.7

Karl Åge and Regitze host a summer garden party for close friends, their son, and his family. Karl Åge is quiet, detached; Regitze is spirited, lively. He thinks back: love at first sight during the war, living together unmarried, her mother's hunger strike when they won't baptize their son. Regitze is passionate and forthright; she speaks her mind. He remembers her inviting a derelict for Christmas dinner, and the man shows up with five bashful friends. He recalls her taking on their son's teacher when the man slaps the lad. He remembers her love of dancing and his fear that his social clumsiness might end their relationship. Now, in twilight, he has other things to face.

Memories of a Marriage

1989

Polledreng kommer hjem poster
10.0

Father and mother have not seen their son for many years, and when he finally arrives for the reconciliation dinner, he does not resemble the Polled boy they remember.

Polledreng kommer hjem

1981

1970s · 9 titles

Lady Inger of Ostrat poster
7.5

This historical drama is based on a play by Henrik Ibsen and set in the year 1528. The central figure in the low-keyed story is a Norwegian noblewoman who is seeking to bring independence to that country despite the involved political intrigues of the Swedes and Danes, who are using Norway as a pawn in their rivalries.

Lady Inger of Ostrat

1975

Only the Truth poster
7.0

A woman, Ilse Brehmer, finds the body of a dead man, a journalist. He has been murdered, and later when the body turns up in the harbor, the woman denies everything, even though witnesses has seen her nearby the crime scene. She simply can’t remember anything, but the detective on the case, Mørck, knows how to smell a lie and soon start to unravel this bloody mess.

Only the Truth

1975

The Liar poster
7.5

Johannes Vig lives a lonely life on Sandø. He is a schoolteacher, and since Sandø is currently cut off from the outside world due to ice, the island's population must fend for themselves. Johannes is secretly in love with both Annemari, the grocer's young daughter, and Rigmor, the farmer's wife. At the same time, Johannes' life is very bleak, and he finds it difficult to express his love. Life on the island is disrupted by Harry, a young engineer who is courting Annemari. Annemari's boyfriend is currently on the mainland, which is why Johannes is watching over her virtue.

The Liar

1970

Skal vi danse først? poster
8.7

About sixteen-year-old Susanne and her relationship with her parents and friends. To make her friend Peter jealous, she flirts heavily with a forty-year-old silversmith from the sailing club where she works.

Skal vi danse først?

1979

Per poster
6.3

Ole Ernst stars as an energetic conman lured into trying to set a factory on fire to catch in on the insurance. The plan backfires and both the factory owner, his wife and the conman hunted by the police must flee to Sweden.

Per

1975

Mirror, Mirror poster
8.5

Heavily influenced by the French stage sensation La Cage Aux Folles (which was filmed the very same year) a drag-queen comedy about a group of homosexuals sharing an apartment with a naive but straight country boy did not live up to expectations. The lead characters lead boring lives during the day and, as depicted here, downright pathetic existences at night, all decked out in peacock plumes and high heels and with nowhere to go.

Mirror, Mirror

1978

Anne og Paul poster
7.3

Paul is a calm and sympathetic lawyer who senses from the outset that his wife Anne has found herself a boyfriend. But he doesn't say anything—not until she says something.

Anne og Paul

1975

Bertram og Lisa poster
7.7

Bertram is very happy with his life, but is encouraged to seek new challenges. Bertram is tasked with getting Merland to sign a contract with the municipality, but it is not easy, as Merland has changed his mind. Meanwhile, Jannie is considering moving out of her parents' house and in with Pelle. Henrik and Louise's relationship is on the rocks. Louise thinks Henrik is having an affair with Lisa. Henrik and Lisa's attraction to each other is obvious, but Bertram doesn't notice anything. Lisa and Bertram's lives take a sudden turn when Henrik dies in an accident. Erling tries to make Bertram the municipal director after Henrik's death, but of course, this doesn't come without a cost.

Bertram og Lisa

1975

Johnny Larsen poster
5.6

From a working class coming-of-age novel, Morten Arnfred fashioned his feature film to recapture the feel, the sting, the pain, but also the spirit of solidarity of the 1950s in the metropolitan city of Copenhagen: at the center, young Johnny, helpless, hapless, happy, unhappy, going through the motions of growing up. Bodil awards: Best Film and Best Actor (Allan Olsen).

Johnny Larsen

1979

1960s · 9 titles

Skibet er ladet med.. poster
5.2

"The ship is loaded with" four angry young men, an original skipper, a fashion model, a radio station, a pirate flag and various musical instruments. And the ship is at anchor in international waters and can not sail forward or backward. On the other hand it can emit radio advertising, and it does.

Skibet er ladet med..

1960

Tine poster
7.3

Danish melodrama about a housemaid struggling to find normalcy and love in the midst of war.

Tine

1964

Prinsesse for en dag poster
6.0

17 -year-old May will by crook career on " the boards " - she will show that she can sing and have talent - and in its endeavors sticking her " a spoke in the wheel" for many. Several are the hardships she exposes its surroundings , to reach his goal. Although the whole thing is a joke - it becomes pretty " serious " when she torpedoing - with a bull's-eye - an engagement , then the " blow up " and with it, the economic basis of the Danish Advertising Television - the film is! But everything ends well - as befits - engagement and øresund television rescued .

Prinsesse for en dag

1962

Landmandsliv poster
6.0

The landowner couple Von Rambow are experiencing significant financial difficulties and are therefore forced to leave their residence and their happy life in Copenhagen. Instead, they must settle for the more down-to-earth life of farmers. The young maiden Marie Møller is deeply in love with Von Rambow's cousin Count Frantz, but he prefers the estate inspector's beautiful Louise. The unfortunate Triddelfitz, on the other hand, is madly in love with Marie Møller, which leads to many complications before all the pieces of the puzzle of love fall into place.

Landmandsliv

1965

Eventyrrejsen poster
5.5

Here is the film that all travel-loving Danes should see—and nod in recognition at all the funny episodes that arise when very different Danes go on vacation to Munich, Tyrol, Rome, and Venice with the dream of the adventure trip of a lifetime. The group is a festive mix: some perpetually dissatisfied, the always happy, young and old, single and a couple of womanisers, etc.

Eventyrrejsen

1960

No artwork available
NR

The Duke arrives in Venice. Senator Delacqua fears being cuckolded, so he sends his wife away. When he finds out that the Duke wants to hire a court administrator, he sends his cook instead of his wife to meet the Duke. Meanwhile, Annima, who is a fisherman's daughter, arrives at the Duke's residence as Delacqua's wife. Delacqua's real wife is staying with her husband's nephew, who is also her lover. Annima's and the cook's boyfriends also appear on stage. They want to please the Duke, but at the same time, they don't want anything to happen to their girlfriends.

En nat i Venedig

1969

Stormvarsel poster
5.4

The young fisherman Kurt Vinderup returns home to the small fishing village of his childhood after completing his military service in the Royal Danish Navy. On the quay, he meets a young girl named Bitten. He and Bitten had been in the early stages of a relationship before he left for the capital. But in his absence, she has become engaged to his brother Jacob Vinderup.

Stormvarsel

1968

Duellen poster
7.2

A sort of forerunner to Hollywood's Boogie Nights (1997), this Danish melodrama is set in the world of strip clubs. A medical student (Frits Helmuth) earns money for tuition working in a burlesque joint. He falls for one of the girls (Malene Schwarz), but she is also involved with a movie director (John Price). The director and Helmuth get into a philosophical debate about love and Darwinism, and the film ends with a duel (the film's title). Duellen was met with mostly incomprehension when it premiered and is no more lucid when viewed today. The striptease scene featuring full-frontal nudity is tame by modern standards.

Duellen

1962

Landmandsliv poster
NR

The von Ramborgs, a couple who own a big estate, are having some serious money issues. Their estate is run by a bunch of talented folks. The count's nephew Frantz shows up at the estate and immediately falls for Louise, who's the daughter of the estate manager. The maid Marie falls for Frantz, while the handyman Fritz is into Marie. In addition to these complications, two swindlers arrive at the estate. They want to try to cheat von Ramborg out of his estate. However, von Ramborg gets help from Marie and Havermann, who is the estate manager.

Landmandsliv

1963

1950s · 11 titles

Kongeligt besøg poster
8.0

In the year 1646, Denmark is at peace. Only recently have the last occupying troops left Jutland, leaving behind the sad traces of iron heels. The administration has partially collapsed, the kingdom is short of money, and what money there is is unevenly distributed. This is the unusual and sad background to this unpretentious account.

Kongeligt besøg

1954

The Young Have No Time poster
6.3

A tale of wealthy youth in post-WWII Copenhagen.

The Young Have No Time

1956

Kærlighedens melodi poster
6.2

Nina and Frederik were the big names in international showbiz in the 1950s with their rousing calypso rhythms. That's why "Kærlighedens Melodi" (The Melody of Love) was bound to be a hit when the young, beautiful couple teamed up with the legendary, wonderful "Satchmo," Louis Armstrong, from the world of jazz. Musical interests vary widely in the affluent neighborhood of Hellerup. At the Schmidt wine merchant's, son Peter has only one interest: jazz. At the Supreme Court lawyer's house next door, Mozart is on the program. But his daughters like both jazz and Peter! Even though their fathers are suing each other, the two young people still find each other. And Louis helps when he plays "The Formula for Love."

Kærlighedens melodi

1959

De sjove aar poster
5.2

Outside the large hotel, there is a lot of activity. It is teeming with foreigners, buses arrive and depart, and indoors the air is filled with foreign languages. But if you look more closely, you will discover that the doorman, hotel porter, waitresses, and waiters are not "real" hotel staff at all, but just students who take on extra jobs in the summer to earn money for their studies and who live in the "hotel" themselves in the winter, which is actually a student dormitory called "Egmont."

De sjove aar

1959

Sønnen poster
9.0

This is a film about how an ordinary man, a restaurateur in a small Danish town and owner of Café Håbet, has his happiness shattered one morning. Restaurateur Christian Christiansen has just prepared for his big trip to visit his only son, who wants to build a house, and now he has to help with a loan, which he can afford. He has saved every penny, and now his son is well on his way and is going to build, not a poor house with a cardboard roof and cheap materials, no, a proper brick villa with red bricks and tiles.

Sønnen

1953

Det er så yndigt at følges ad poster
8.5

Who decides where the cupboard should go in a marriage? The film begins with three cheerful movers, Karl, Fredrik, and Lasse, struggling with a pompous cupboard because an accountant and his wife cannot agree on where it should go. Of course, they eventually agree. Mrs. Accountant is the one who decides. As the three stable brothers drive the moving van away, they run over a young girl. Her name is Lone, and she is the daughter of the accountant they were moving for. She is taken to the hospital with a broken leg. However, love has also entered the picture.

Det er så yndigt at følges ad

1954

Styrmand Karlsen poster
6.6

First mate Knud Karlsen has just received sad news from his girlfriend. On board the ship is also chef Valdemar, sailor Ole, owner's confident son Robert and a whole bunch of eager sailors. On board develops the drama out every minute, culminating in the film's climax, when a fire breaks out on board

Styrmand Karlsen

1958

Jeg elsker dig poster
8.5

Six people—three couples—meet by chance at a dance restaurant in Copenhagen's nightlife scene. A marriage swindler and former actress, an elderly Supreme Court lawyer and his wife, and a young couple with equal parts courage and erotic repression. As the evening progresses, the empty champagne bottles pile up. Old inhibitions are cast aside and new connections are formed – and none of the six leave as they arrived.

Jeg elsker dig

1957

Min søn Peter poster
7.3

Once upon a time, there was a family consisting of the artist Michael, his wife Lydia, and their son Peter. But the couple divorced, and Lydia, who later married a wealthy businessman who left her so much money when he died that she is now financially independent, now lives in a charming country house, where her old, faithful factotum, Josse, rules the roost.

Min søn Peter

1953

Den kloge mand poster
7.4

In the small idyllic town Randrup, lives on nature-loving and friendly thatcher Rasmus Thomsen (Oswald Helmuth). In addition to refurbish people's roofs, he runs a small "geschæft" that "The wise man". Son Ulf (Frits Helmuth), which reads the doctor's home on leave before the final exam in Copenhagen. Rasmus' big dream has always been that Ulf had to be "real doctor" and achieve what he always wanted so dearly. By thrift and income have gained through the many patients who seek Him from far and near, he has been able to afford his son's studies. His reputation as a wise man has knowledge of.

Den kloge mand

1956

Ta' Pelle med poster
6.3

Laurits lives with his granddaughter Adda on a small farm. He has always had difficulty making ends meet, and the bailiff often has to visit Lauritz to try to collect the outstanding taxes. The friendly parish bailiff and dairy manager Rasmus wants to help Lauritz, but he won't hear of it. Rasmus is a kind man who takes care of Pelle, a child in foster care, and also supervises another foster child, Ole, who works at Bakkegården, where the strict manager Børge Andersen makes life difficult for him. Lauritz is popular among the local children and skilled at building kites. One summer...

Ta' Pelle med

1952

1940s · 4 titles

Frihed, lighed og Louise poster
7.7

Director Max Kildal's private life has gone completely topsy-turvy. The two women of the house, his wife Louise and daughter Vibeke, throw him around in the ring when they play their rich girl intrigue game. Max is completely and utterly subject to the tyranny of women. At least for Max, no one is interested. And yet. One day he realizes that he is appreciated by his secretary - and then he shows his trump card to the women at home.

Frihed, lighed og Louise

1944

Mit Liv er Musik poster
6.7

We meet the young violinist Erik Smith in the lap of his family with his wife Lise and his little daughter Lone. Erik is a young, aspiring musician who dreams of one day making a career as an interpreter of the great masters of music. At a concert where a well-known solo violinist has to interrupt, Erik Smith suddenly jumps in and gets his big breakthrough.

Mit Liv er Musik

1944

Ebberød bank poster
6.9

Peter Vipperup is a tailor in a small provincial town. He has to work hard to make ends meet for himself and his family. One fine day, Vipperup's brother, Andres, returns home from America. He is a completely different type than the little Lapp tailor, and he has had good luck on the other side of the Atlantic. A few cunning minds in town have seen through Andres' wealth and devise a plan to secure a share of the wealth by appointing the tailor as director of a newly started bank - and then exploiting his naivety.

Ebberød bank

1943

Hans Store Aften poster
7.7

Young Jonas Tofte is a waiter in the theater café, but he is more than that; he is also a poet and has written a comedy that is about to premiere. With this, both he and his sweet little wife, Else, hope to be out of all the difficulties they have come to know so well. Once the premiere is over, all the bills will be paid, and Jonas can stop serving. But many difficulties still lie ahead for Jonas before the premiere is over.

Hans Store Aften

1946

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