Dance of the Polar Bears (1990)
At age 12, Lasse is a tough guy and a bright one. His life is changed when his mother, pregnant at the time, abandons his beloved father. She takes Lasse with her to live with her new paramour, a dentist as authoritarian as Lasse's Elvis Presley-fan butcher dad was easy-going. The dentist has a daughter, too, and she is a jealous schemer. Lasse tries hard to conform, but can a tiger change its stripes?
Director: Birger Larsen
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Anders Schoubye as Lasse |
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Tommy Kenter as Lasses far |
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Birthe Neumann as Lasses mor |
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Paul Hüttel as Hilding, Lasses stedfar |
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Laura Drasbæk as Lollo, Hildings datter |
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Hakim Bellman Jacobsen as Gubbi |
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Kristine Horn as Tina |
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Stig Hoffmeyer as Lærer |
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Vibeke Hastrup as Mother of Tina |
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Christian Potalivo as Schoolboy |
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Dominik Czamacki as Skoleelev |
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Henrik Larsen as Skoleinspektør |
| Directing | Birger Larsen | Director |
| Writing | Ulf Stark | Novel |
| Writing | Birger Larsen | Writer |
| Writing | Jonas Cornell | Writer |