In a Better World, the Glossary
In a Better World (Hævnen, "The Revenge") is a 2010 Danish drama thriller film written by Anders Thomas Jensen and directed by Susanne Bier.[1]
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49 relations: Academy Award for Best International Feature Film, Adam's Apples, Anders Thomas Jensen, Birthe Neumann, Bodil Jørgensen, British Board of Film Classification, Brothers (2004 film), Brothers (2009 film), CBS, Cineuropa, Dagbladet Information, Danish Film Institute, Danish krone, DR2, Drama (film and television), European Union, Fandango Media, Film i Väst, Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film, Kim Bodnia, Langeland, Lars Bom, List of Danish submissions for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film, List of submissions to the 83rd Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film, MEDIA sub-programme of Creative Europe, Metacritic, Mikael Persbrandt, Nordisk Film, Politiken, Roger Ebert, RogerEbert.com, Rotten Tomatoes, Sisse Graum Jørgensen, Susanne Bier, Sveriges Television, Swedes, Swedish Film Database, Swedish Film Institute, Things We Lost in the Fire (film), Thriller (genre), Trine Dyrholm, Ulrich Thomsen, Warlord, Wil Johnson, Xenophobia, Zentropa, 24th European Film Awards, 68th Golden Globe Awards, 83rd Academy Awards.
- Danish independent films
- Danish thriller films
- Films directed by Susanne Bier
- Films set in Sudan
- Films with screenplays by Anders Thomas Jensen
- Swedish independent films
Academy Award for Best International Feature Film
The Academy Award for Best International Feature Film (known as Best Foreign Language Film prior to 2020) is one of the Academy Awards handed out annually by the U.S.-based Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS).
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Adam's Apples
Adam's Apples (Adams Æbler) is a 2005 Danish-language black comedy-drama film directed and written by Anders Thomas Jensen. In a Better World and Adam's Apples are films with screenplays by Anders Thomas Jensen.
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Anders Thomas Jensen
Anders Thomas Jensen (born 6 April 1972) is a Danish screenwriter and film director.
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Birthe Neumann
Birthe Neumann (born 30 April 1947 in Vanløse, Copenhagen) is a Danish actress.
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Bodil Jørgensen
Bodil Jørgensen, a Danish Film actress was born on March 3, 1961, in Vejle, Denmark.
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British Board of Film Classification
The British Board of Film Classification (BBFC) is a non-governmental organisation founded by the British film industry in 1912 and responsible for the national classification and censorship of films exhibited at cinemas and video works (such as television programmes, trailers, adverts, public information/campaigning films, menus, bonus content, etc.) released on physical media within the United Kingdom.
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Brothers (2004 film)
Brothers (Brødre) is a 2004 Danish psychological thriller war film directed by Susanne Bier and written by Bier and Anders Thomas Jensen. In a Better World and Brothers (2004 film) are Danish multilingual films, films directed by Susanne Bier, films set in Denmark, films shot in Denmark and films with screenplays by Anders Thomas Jensen.
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Brothers (2009 film)
Brothers is a 2009 American psychological thriller war film directed by Jim Sheridan and written by David Benioff.
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CBS
CBS Broadcasting Inc., commonly shortened to CBS (an abbreviation of its original name, Columbia Broadcasting System), is an American commercial broadcast television and radio network serving as the flagship property of the CBS Entertainment Group division of Paramount Global and is one of the company's three flagship subsidiaries, along with namesake Paramount Pictures and MTV.
Cineuropa
Cineuropa is an online information portal dedicated to the promotion of European cinema.
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Dagbladet Information
Information, full name: Dagbladet Information, is a Danish newspaper published Monday through Saturday.
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Danish Film Institute
The Danish Film Institute (Det Danske Filminstitut; DFI) is the national Danish agency responsible for supporting and encouraging film and cinema culture, and for conserving these in the national interest.
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Danish krone
The krone (plural: kroner; sign: kr.; code: DKK) is the official currency of Denmark, Greenland, and the Faroe Islands, introduced on 1 January 1875.
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DR2
DR2 (DR To) is the second television channel operated by the Danish Broadcasting Corporation (DR) in Denmark.
Drama (film and television)
In film and television, drama is a category or genre of narrative fiction (or semi-fiction) intended to be more serious than humorous in tone.
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European Union
The European Union (EU) is a supranational political and economic union of member states that are located primarily in Europe.
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Fandango Media, LLC is an American ticketing company that sells movie tickets via their website and their mobile app.
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Film i Väst
Film i Väst (English: "Film in West") is a film company located in Trollhättan, Sweden, nicknamed "Trollywood"), founded in 1992 by the Älvsborg County Council. Lars von Trier used its facilities in his movies, such as Dogville and Manderlay. Film i Väst became known early on under the nickname Trollywood (from Trollhättan + Hollywood).
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Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film
The Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film is a Golden Globe Award presented by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association to reward theatrically-released feature film not in the English language. In a Better World and Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film are best Foreign Language Film Golden Globe winners.
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Kim Bodnia
Kim Bodnia (born 12 April 1965) is a Danish actor.
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Langeland
Langeland is a Danish island located between the Great Belt and Bay of Kiel.
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Lars Bom
Lars Bom (Olesen) (born 8 April 1961) is a Danish actor, educated at The Danish National School of Theatre in 1985.
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List of Danish submissions for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film
Since the inaugural award in 1956, Denmark has submitted fifty-nine films for consideration for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film, fourteen of which succeeded in getting nominated for the Academy Award: Qivitoq (1958), Paw (1959), Harry and the Butler (1960), Babette's Feast (1987), Pelle the Conqueror (1988), Memories of a Marriage (1989), After the Wedding (2006), In a Better World (2010), A Royal Affair (2012), The Hunt (2013), A War (2015), Land Of Mine (2016), Another Round (2020) and Flee (2021).
List of submissions to the 83rd Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film
This is a list of submissions to the 83rd Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film.
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The MEDIA sub-programme of Creative Europe or simply Creative Europe MEDIA (formerly The MEDIA Programme of the European Union) is designed to support the European film and audiovisual industries.
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Metacritic is a website that aggregates reviews of films, television shows, music albums, video games, and formerly books.
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Mikael Persbrandt
Mikael Åke Persbrandt (born 25 September 1963) is a Swedish actor.
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Nordisk Film
Nordisk Film A/S is a Danish entertainment company established in 1906 in Copenhagen by filmmaker Ole Olsen.
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Politiken
Politiken is a leading Danish daily broadsheet newspaper, published by JP/Politikens Hus in Copenhagen, Denmark.
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Roger Ebert
Roger Joseph Ebert (June 18, 1942 – April 4, 2013) was an American film critic, film historian, journalist, essayist, screenwriter, and author.
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RogerEbert.com
RogerEbert.com is an American film review website that archives reviews written by film critic Roger Ebert for the Chicago Sun-Times and also shares other critics' reviews and essays.
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Rotten Tomatoes
Rotten Tomatoes is an American review-aggregation website for film and television.
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Sisse Graum Jørgensen
Sisse Graum Jørgensen (born 8 May 1972) is a Danish film producer and sits on the board of the film company Zentropa.
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Susanne Bier
Susanne Bier (born 15 April 1960) is a Danish filmmaker.
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Sveriges Television
Sveriges Television AB ("Sweden's Television Stock Company"), shortened to SVT, is the Swedish national public television broadcaster, funded by a public service tax on personal income set by the Riksdag (national parliament).
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Swedes
Swedes (svenskar) are an ethnic group native to Sweden, who share a common ancestry, culture, history and language. They mostly inhabit Sweden and the other Nordic countries, in particular Finland where they are an officially recognized minority, with Swedish being one of the official languages of the country, and with a substantial diaspora in other countries, especially the United States.
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Swedish Film Database
The Swedish Film Database (Svensk filmdatabas) is an Internet database about Swedish films, published by the Swedish Film Institute.
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Swedish Film Institute
The Swedish Film Institute (Svenska Filminstitutet) (SFI) is a statutory body located in Stockholm, Sweden that supports the Swedish film industry.
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Things We Lost in the Fire (film)
Things We Lost in the Fire is a 2007 drama film directed by Susanne Bier, written by Allan Loeb, and starring Halle Berry, Benicio del Toro and David Duchovny. In a Better World and Things We Lost in the Fire (film) are films directed by Susanne Bier.
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Thriller (genre)
Thriller is a genre of fiction with numerous, often overlapping, subgenres, including crime, horror, and detective fiction.
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Trine Dyrholm
Trine Dyrholm (born 15 April 1972) is a Danish actress, singer and songwriter.
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Ulrich Thomsen
Ulrich Thomsen (born 6 December 1963) is a Danish actor and filmmaker, known for his role of Christian in the 1998 film The Celebration and for the role of Kai Proctor in the Cinemax original series Banshee (2013–2016).
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Warlord
A warlord is an individual who exercises military, economic, and political control over a region, often within a country without a strong national government, through usually informal or illegal coercive control over the local armed forces.
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Wil Johnson
Wilbert Charles Johnson (born 18 April 1965) is an English actor, who has had notable television roles in Waking the Dead and Babyfather, and on stage in Othello.
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Xenophobia
Xenophobia (from ξένος (xénos), "strange, foreign, or alien", and (phóbos), "fear") is the fear or dislike of anything which is perceived as being foreign or strange.
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Zentropa
Zentropa, or Zentropa Entertainments, is a Danish film company started in 1992 by director Lars von Trier and producer Peter Aalbæk Jensen.
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24th European Film Awards
The 24th European Film Awards were presented on 3 December 2011 in Berlin, Germany.
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68th Golden Globe Awards
The 68th Golden Globe Awards were broadcast live from the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, California on January 16, 2011, by NBC.
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83rd Academy Awards
The 83rd Academy Awards ceremony, organized by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), honored the best films of 2010 in the United States and took place on February 27, 2011, at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles beginning at 5:30 p.m. PST (8:30 p.m. EST).
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See also
Danish independent films
- Another Round
- Antichrist (film)
- Bakerman (film)
- Breaking the Waves
- Dancer in the Dark
- Dear Wendy
- Dogville
- Europa (1991 film)
- Ginger & Rosa
- Godland (film)
- Help! I'm a Fish
- Human Factors (film)
- In a Better World
- It's All About Love
- Italian for Beginners
- LFO (film)
- Lilya 4-ever
- Love Is All You Need
- Luis and the Aliens
- Manderlay
- Melancholia (2011 film)
- Mifune (film)
- Nemesis 2: Nebula
- Nemesis 3: Prey Harder
- Nemesis 4: Death Angel
- Nymphomaniac (film)
- Only God Forgives
- Open Hearts
- Pusher (1996 film)
- Quiet Days in Clichy (1970 film)
- Red Road (film)
- Song of the Sea (2014 film)
- Teddy Bear (2012 film)
- Terkel in Trouble
- The Boss of It All
- The Celebration
- The Green Butchers
- The Hunt (2012 film)
- The Idiots
- The King Is Alive
- The Neon Demon
- The Worst Person in the World (film)
- This Charming Man (film)
- Tom of Finland (film)
Danish thriller films
- A Hijacking
- A Royal Affair
- A Second Chance (2014 film)
- Birthday Girl (2023 film)
- Blaavand melder storm
- Brief History of a Family
- Clash of Egos
- Club Zero
- Credo (1997 film)
- Deliver Us from Evil (2009 film)
- Der Frosch mit der Maske
- Dybt vand
- Everything Will Be Fine (2010 film)
- Fear Me Not
- Fear X
- Headhunter (2009 film)
- I.T. (film)
- ID A
- In a Better World
- It's All About Love
- King's Game
- Lost in the Night
- Love and Rage (2009 film)
- Midsommer
- Murderous Trance
- Murk (film)
- Naboer
- Nightwatch (1994 film)
- No Right Turn
- One of Those Things (film)
- Red Road (film)
- Return to Sender (2004 film)
- Room 13 (1964 film)
- Sista dansen
- Smilla's Sense of Snow (film)
- Sons (2024 film)
- Speak No Evil (2022 film)
- The 11th Hour (2014 film)
- The Candidate (2008 film)
- The Idealist
- The Model (film)
- The Neon Demon
- The Russian Singer
- Thelma (2017 film)
- What No One Knows
- Whirlpool (1970 film)
Films directed by Susanne Bier
- A Second Chance (2014 film)
- After the Wedding (2006 film)
- Bird Box (film)
- Brothers (2004 film)
- Credo (1997 film)
- Family Matters (1993 film)
- Freud's Leaving Home
- In a Better World
- Like It Never Was Before
- Love Is All You Need
- Once in a Lifetime (2000 film)
- Open Hearts
- Serena (2014 film)
- The One and Only (1999 film)
- Things We Lost in the Fire (film)
Films set in Sudan
- A propósito de Sudán
- Akasha (2018 film)
- Al-Sit
- Beats of the Antonov
- Beloved Enemy (1955 film)
- Darfur (film)
- East of Sudan
- God Grew Tired of Us
- Goodbye Julia
- In Desert and Wilderness (1973 film)
- In Desert and Wilderness (2001 film)
- In a Better World
- Khartoum (film)
- Khartoum Offside
- Leni Riefenstahl: Her Dream of Africa
- Live and Become
- Shark!
- Song of Khartoum
- Storm Over the Nile
- Tajouje
- Talking About Trees
- The Art of Sin
- The Constant Gardener (film)
- The Four Feathers (1929 film)
- The Four Feathers (2002 film)
- The Good Lie
- The Last Mercenary (2021 film)
- The Last Outpost (1935 film)
- The Light That Failed (1939 film)
- The Red Sea Diving Resort
- Tommy Atkins (1928 film)
- You Will Die at Twenty
- Young Winston
Films with screenplays by Anders Thomas Jensen
- A Second Chance (2014 film)
- Adam's Apples
- After the Wedding (2006 film)
- All for Two
- At World's End (2009 film)
- Brothers (2004 film)
- Clash of Egos
- Daniel (2019 film)
- Election Night (1998 film)
- Fear Me Not
- Flickering Lights
- In China They Eat Dogs
- In a Better World
- Love Is All You Need
- Men & Chicken
- Mifune (film)
- Murk (film)
- Old Men in New Cars
- Open Hearts
- Riders of Justice
- Skagerrak (film)
- Stealing Rembrandt
- The Dark Tower (2017 film)
- The Duchess (film)
- The Green Butchers
- The King Is Alive
- The Promised Land (2023 film)
- The Salvation (film)
- The Shamer's Daughter
- The Sun King (film)
- Wilbur Wants to Kill Himself
Swedish independent films
- A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence
- About Endlessness
- Adventuress Wanted
- Another Round
- Border (2018 Swedish film)
- Breaking Point (1975 film)
- Diana (2013 film)
- Draug (film)
- Frostbite (2006 film)
- Godland (film)
- IRL (2013 film)
- In a Better World
- Involuntary (film)
- Israel vs Israel
- Knocking (2021 film)
- Kung Fury
- LFO (film)
- Lamb (2021 film)
- Let the Right One In (film)
- Lilya 4-ever
- Love Is All You Need
- Madness (2010 film)
- Masculin Féminin
- Melancholia (2011 film)
- Monos (film)
- Only You (2018 film)
- Patrik, Age 1.5
- Pioneer (film)
- Pippi Longstocking (1997 film)
- Play (2011 film)
- Pleasure (2021 film)
- Scenes from a Marriage
- Songs from the Second Floor
- The Burden (film)
- The Guitar Mongoloid
- The Idiots
- The King of Ping Pong
- The Seventh Seal
- The Slingshot (film)
- The Worst Person in the World (film)
- Thelma (2017 film)
- Thriller – A Cruel Picture
- Tom of Finland (film)
- What the Swedish Butler Saw
- You, the Living
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_a_Better_World
Also known as Hævnen.