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Fish Out of Water (1993)
Directed by Erik Clausen
Comedy, Drama · 1h 37m
The early 1990s: 300,000 Danes are out of work. Viggo, a machinist with two grown children, is silent about feelings, scared he'll lose his job, loud about the value of trade unionism, interested in his pet fish, and argumentative at dinner. His wife Oda puts up with his moods and works on family genealogy. When Viggo is laid off, he becomes a fish out of water, hardly looking for work, starting a garden, and taking up with Karen, a polished but unhappy widow. He lies to his wife about a union training and goes to Mallorca with Karen. When she stops the affair, Viggo ends up in a psychiatric ward and must figure out what's really important in his life and in his character
Cast
Erik Clausen
Helle Ryslinge
Leif Sylvester
Anne Marie Helger
Bjarne Liller
Torben Zeller
Lene Brøndum
Kjeld Løfting
Claus Bue
Lars Lippert
Gitte Rugaard
Thomas Hedemann
Crew
- Director
- Erik Clausen
- Writer
- Leif Sylvester, John Nehm, Sanni Sylvester, Søren Skjær, Erik Clausen
- Novel
- John Nehm
- Director of Photography
- Claus Loof
- Original Music Composer
- Kim Larsen, Henning Pold Christensen
- Editor
- Camilla Skousen, Thomas Krag
- Producer
- Henrik Møller-Sørensen
Details
- Original title
- De frigjorte
- Release date
- 1993-02-26
- Runtime
- 1h 37m
- Genres
- Comedy, Drama
- Original language
- DA
- Spoken languages
- Danish
- Countries
- Denmark
- Production
- Nordisk Film Denmark, ASA Film Production, Cosmo Film