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The Bench (2000)

The Bench (2000)

Drama

He has a life, he isn't proud of, and a past that he doesn't want to remember.

Release Date: 2000, August 26
Directors: Per Fly
Countries: Denmark
Production: Zentropa Entertainments
Cast: Jesper Christensen, Søren Malling, Lars Brygmann, Lars Ranthe, Anette Støvelbæk, Jens Albinus, John Martinus, Nicolaj Kopernikus, Sarah Boberg, Petrine Agger, Benjamin Boe Rasmussen, Marius Sonne Janischefska

Overview:

Kaj is a stubborn man with a great deal of pride. The former chef lives in a council flat. He has wasted his life and is now on a council job training scheme for the long-term unemployed, where he refuses to let the foreman of the activation project boss him about. When Kaj's daughter, with whom he has not been in touch for nineteen years, moves into the same council estate on the run from her violent husband, a change comes over Kaj. His initial instinct is to avoid her, but by chance he ends up helping to look after Jonas, her six-year-old son. For the first time for years Kaj need not survive on his own devices. Now he has responsibilities and a family of his own.

Keywords:

family friendship poverty alcoholism second chance father and daughter self-abandonment