News from the North

Sex, Drugs and Taxation

1 hr. 50 min. | Drama | N/A

Maybe the best thing to come out of Scandinavia during the hippie years was, in fact, the story of a radical libertarian and a hedonist capitalist. A joyride through taxation, mass travel, hookers and politics. Not feeling too constrained by historical facts, director Christoffer Boe’s story of Simon Spies and Mogens Glistrup covers just a few of their decades in a tale of warmth and humour, defiance and eccentricity.

Christoffer Boe

Christoffer Boe

Christoffer Boe was born in Denmark in 1974. After achieving a bachelor’s degree in film studies at the University of Copenhagen, Ch. Boe graduated from the National Film School of Denmark as a director in 2001. His feature film debut Reconstruction (2003) was awarded Caméra d’Or and the Young jury award during Critics’ Week at Cannes Film Festival. His other feature films include: Allegro (2005), Offscreen (2006), Everything Will Be Fine (2010), Beast (2011).
Languages
Danish
Subtitles
Lithuanian, English
Original title
Spies & Glistrup
Produced
2013: Denmark

Film information

Director
Christoffer Boe
Screenplay
Christoffer Boe, Simon Pasternak
Music
Jonas Struck
Cinematography
Manuel Alberto Claro
Cast
Pilou Asbæk, Nicolas Bro, Trine Pallesen, Jesper Christensen, Martin Hestbæk
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