Acting
Erik Clausen
Born March 14, 1942 · Denmark
Died October 30, 2024 · aged 82
No biography available.
Known For
The Circus Casablanca · 1981The Circus Casablanca
★ 7.41981
MovieDramaComedy
Film about a pair of traveling entertainers and con-men and their problems with jobs, money and women. We follow them in a period there it goes downhill with engagements. It's hard for them to realize that entertainers of their kind are about to become extinct.
The Dark Side of the Moon · 1986The Dark Side of the Moon
★ 6.21986
MovieDrama
A man has been in prison for sixteen years after killing of his wife. Now he seeks to create a new life, where he only finds warmth and fellowship with Turkish immigrants. He will also try to come to terms with the daughter who hates him. Denmark's submission for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1986.
The Knight of Justice · 1989The Knight of Justice
★ 5.31989
MovieFamily
Benjamin act as a moral guardian as he saves both a female thief and a child during Christmas in a futuristic Denmark.
Temporary Release · 2007Temporary Release
★ 4.32007
MovieFamilyDrama
John (played by Erik Clausen) is in prison for petty crime. His son is getting married and he has been granted accompanied leave to attend. The provincial Bo (played by Jesper Asholt) accompanies him.
Me and Charly · 1978Me and Charly
★ 6.21978
MovieDrama
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.
In the Middle of the Night · 1984In the Middle of the Night
★ 6.71984
MovieDramaComedy
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.
Carl, My Childhood Symphony · 1994Carl, My Childhood Symphony
★ 7.21994
MovieDramaMusic
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.
Tarzan Mama Mia · 1989Tarzan Mama Mia
★ 6.31989
MovieFamily
Eleven-year old Rikke lives alone with her father, whose only interest in life seems to be the soccer matches which appear on his television. Not surprisingly, Rikke is somewhat bored. She enters a contest put on by a cereal company which has as its grand prize a horse. Since she lives in the city in a second floor apartment, it never occurred to her that she might win, but win she does. The horse ("Mama-Mia") duly appears, and she and the members of her slum neighborhood come together to cope with the situation in a delightful way.
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