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Fish Out of Water (1993)
Directed by Erik Clausen
Overview
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
Length 97 minutes
Actors
Leif Sylvester | Erik Clausen | Povl Erik Carstensen | Torben Zeller | Claus Bue | Peter Rygaard | Lars Lippert | Pauli Ryberg | Kim Larsen | Lene Brøndum | Gitte Rugaard | Kjell Nilsson | Anne Marie Helger | Helle Ryslinge | Bjarne Liller | Kjeld Løfting | Thomas Hedemann | Rasmus Haxen | Signe Birkbøll | Per Espersen | Sune Otterstrøm | Per Tofte Nielsen | Karl Antz | Lykke Møller | Birthe Malling | B. Lentz | Niels Tronhjem | Tonni Stemann Larsen | Benny Bakhauge | Lasse Farver | Jimmy Larsen | Kjeld Heising | Emil Clausen | Karsten Brostrøm | June Gudnitz | Kamil Firat | Niels Martin Carlsen | Ole Holst | Tora Bencard | Halil Atik