The Bench
Bænken
Release: 2000-08-26
·Runtime: 89m
·★ 6.9
Drama
Kaj is a stubborn man with a great deal of pride. The former chef lives in a council flat. He has wasted his life and is now on a council job training scheme for the long-term unemployed, where he refuses to let the foreman of the activation project boss him about. When Kaj's daughter, with whom he has not been in touch for nineteen years, moves into the same council estate on the run from her violent husband, a change comes over Kaj. His initial instinct is to avoid her, but by chance he ends up helping to look after Jonas, her six-year-old son. For the first time for years Kaj need not survive on his own devices. Now he has responsibilities and a family of his own.
Production Countries
Denmark
Production Companies
Zentropa Entertainments
Cast
Britta Lillesøe
as Lis
Nicolaj Kopernikus
as Stig
Jens Albinus
as Kim
John Martinus
as Toilet Attendant
Anette Støvelbæk
as Kim's Neighbor
Lars Ranthe
as Kaptajnen
Ann Kristine Schmidt
as Receptionist
Lars Brygmann
as Lars
Søren Malling
as Man (uncredited)
Petrine Agger
as Nurse
Rikke Bendsen
as Irene
Jesper Christensen
as Kaj
Sarah Boberg
as Connie
Stine Holm Joensen
as Liv
Benjamin Boe Rasmussen
as Bo
Holger Perfort
as Mr. Nandrup
