Johannes Allen

Johannes Allen

Birth : 1916-05-16, Denmark

Death : 1973-12-14

History

Johannes Allen was born on May 16, 1916 in Copenhagen, Denmark. He was a writer and director, known for Café Paradis (1950), Farlig ungdom (1953) and The Girls Are Willing (1958). He died on December 14, 1973 in Denmark.

Profile

Johannes Allen

Movies

Relations - the love story from Denmark
Novel
Sonja, 16 is a porn model, and her middle aged lover is obsessed with her. Sonja knows how to benefit from this, and as he spies on her, he finds out that there's more to her than he would expect.
Gymnasiepigen
Director
Pigen i Søgelyset
Writer
The Girls Are Willing
Writer
On the idyllic Birkø lives Christian a parish executive officer. He is a brave and honest man, happily married to Martha, and this couple has a son called Theo and he will once take over the farm.
Night Girls
Writer
A whirlwind romance between a Danish storeclerk and an American G.I. in Copenhagen takes them to a dance club base for prostitutes, whom she befriends and whose pimp he antagonizes.
Night Girls
Director
A whirlwind romance between a Danish storeclerk and an American G.I. in Copenhagen takes them to a dance club base for prostitutes, whom she befriends and whose pimp he antagonizes.
The Young Have No Time
Writer
A tale of wealthy youth in post-WWII Copenhagen.
The Young Have No Time
Director
A tale of wealthy youth in post-WWII Copenhagen.
Taxa K-1640 efterlyses
Writer
Paradiset
Writer
The two alcoholics Rudolf and Bertil gets fired from their jobs. For Bertil the story ends happily. He quits drinking and takes a job on a ship. For Rudolph it is worse. He can't kick the booze.
Farlig ungdom
Writer
Egon, a young man from Jutland living with relatives in Copenhagen, meets sensible young girl Ruth and falls in love. But Egon is involved with a gang of criminals, and when they assault a man they meet in a bar they are caught by the police. Egon is sent to a juvenile home, but can he stay out of trouble?
Vejrhanen
Writer
The Face of Truth
Writer
Lau Lauritzen plays an ordinary architect, with a wife and a son. He gets accused for killing a 10-year old girl, and of course nobody doubts he's the one. Even his wife and his uncle has trouble believing him, but at least they don't tell him.
Café Paradis
Writer
Café Paradis is an award-winning Danish film made in 1950, directed by Bodil Ipsen and Lau Lauritzen Jr., and written by Johannes Allen. The film received the Bodil Award for Film of the Year, and Ib Schønberg, for what is regarded his finest performance, received the Bodil Award for Best Supporting Actor.
John and Irene
Writer
The two leading actors form a team traveling round performing as a professional dancing couple who has difficulty making ends meet. Ebbe Rode is the dreamer and Bodil Kjer the down to earth realist. Bodil Kjer expands her image to encompass the disillusioned woman reflecting the hard life she has gone through. Ebbe Rodes disappointed optimism turn into violence with dramatic consequences.