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Anders Thomas Jensen

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Anders Thomas Jensen

Born April 6, 1972 in Frederiksværk, Danmark12 films

Anders Thomas Jensen (born 6 April 1972 in Frederiksværk) is a Danish screenwriter and film director. Jensen won the Oscar for his 1998 film Election Night. He also received Oscar nominations in the live-action short category for his films Ernst & The Light (1996) and Wolfgang (1997). From the end of the 1990s and into the new millennium he wrote the screenplays for most of the Danish movie blockbusters of the period, including Mifune's Last Song (co-written with Søren Kragh-Jacobsen), In China They Eat Dogs, Open Hearts, Stealing Rembrandt, and Brothers. In 2000 Anders Thomas Jensen for the first time directed a feature film: the action-comedy Flickering Lights, and since then directed The Green Butchers and Adam's Apples. In 2005 he received the Nordisk Film Award (1000 Danish kroner times the age of Nordisk Film).

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Adam's Apples posterFirst watchAdam's Apples20057.5A neo-nazi sentenced to community service at a church clashes with the blindly devotional priest.View film

Essential films

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Riders of Justice poster7.3Riders of Justice2020The Green Butchers poster7.1The Green Butchers2003Flickering Lights poster7.2Flickering Lights2000The Last Viking poster7.2The Last Viking2025Men & Chicken poster6.5Men & Chicken2015

Filmography

12 films as director
  1. TBAThe Monster of FlorenceDirector
  2. 2025The Last VikingDirector
  3. 2020Riders of JusticeDirector
  4. 2015Men & ChickenDirector
  5. 2007Cinema 16: European Short Films (U.S. Edition)Director
  6. 2006Cinema 16: European Short Films (European Edition)Director
  7. 2005Adam's ApplesDirector
  8. 2003The Green ButchersDirector
  9. 2000Flickering LightsDirector
  10. 1998Election NightDirector
  11. 1997WolfgangDirector
  12. 1996Ernst & the LightDirector