Jan Tjerrild

Kingmaker (2024)

Ulrik Torp, once a fearless investigative journalist who is now tackling unemployment and a midlife crisis. He finds himself in the middle of a new political conspiracy. ...

Drømme om flugt (2020)

Babak's asylum application has been rejected, and he has been sent to one of the state's new motivation centers with his eight-year-old son Ahmed. They can either stay there or voluntarily return to their home country. Father and son end up in limbo, which ...

Into the Darkness (2020)

Karlskov is a self made, successful owner of a large electronics factory, has a wife and five children. They live the good, privileged upper-class life on Strandvejen north of Copenhagen when the Nazis occupy Denmark in April 1940. Karl struggles to contin ...

Mors dag (2012)

This Life (2012)

The true story of the Fiils: a family of innkeepers who, during Nazi-Germany's occupation of Denmark, took up arms against the German occupiers. But in the fight for freedom, some must die so that others may live. ...

De genfødte (2011)

Upstairs (2011)

After a six-year relationship with his girlfriend Rie, Jonas decides take a stab at the freedom of single life, but is confronted with a world filled with lonely, emotionless and sex-fixated individuals. An infernal racket from the upstairs neighbour Frank ...

Kejserens nye klæder (2009)

Craig (2008)

CRAIG is a lonely, somewhat awkward, young man trying to recover from losing his parents in a big fire. Besides a friend from childhood, in one go he looses everyone he cares about. The friend, Cliff, isn't of much use either. He has his own problems to de ...

How to Get Rid of the Others (2007)

A satirical drama revealing the consequences of the Danish government's "New Copenhagen Criteria", a new policy aiming at securing the nation's survival. Citizens who fail to meet the criteria – those who have received more from society than what they ha ...