Danish film canon

By: AMD

The official danish cultural canon for film, published January 24th, 2006.

The film canon was selected by:

Susanne Bier (director)
Jacob Neiiendam (CPH:PIX film festival manager)
Vinca Wiedemann (Danish film institute consultant at the time)
Tivi Magnusson (Film producer)
Ole Michelsen (Film critic)

Missing from theauters:

Ditte menneskebarn (Ditte, child of man_) – Bjarne Henning-Jensen, 1946
Soldaten og Jenny (The soldier and Jenny_) – Johan Jacobsen, 1947
Bennys Badekar (Benny’s Bathtub) – Jannik Hastrup & Flemming Quist Møller, 1971
Matador (television series) – Erik Balling, 1978-1982
Kundskabens Træ (Tree of Knowledge) – Nils Malmros, 1981

From Tree of Knowledge

01

Master of the House

Carl Theodor Dreyer
02

Day of Wrath

Carl Theodor Dreyer
03

Hunger

Henning Carlsen
04

Babette's Feast

Gabriel Axel
05

Pelle the Conqueror

Bille August
06

The Celebration

Thomas Vinterberg
07

The Idiots

Lars von Trier

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Kenji

5May10

Well, i think they could have enlarged their lists a little, so a couple of extra Dreyer masterpieces and also others could still have their rightful place without his dominating. Danish culture tends to get overshadowed by a couple of bigger neighbours, and the other cultural selections would no doubt have hidden treasures

Bleu Poster

28Mar11

Agreed. Twelve movies a canon does not make.

AMD

4May10

The official cultural canon is only allowed to contain 12 pieces from each art form. The jury's main criteria was to reflect danish reality.

Dimitris Psachos

4May10

i'm personally content with the lack of Dreyer, the same way i'd have protested if Sweden were to lean in favor of Bergman. i'd have expected more however from Denmark given a country like that possesses a strong quality of variety and multiple choices from many decades.