Kim Larsen

Kim Larsen

Birth : 1945-10-23, Copenhagen, Denmark

Death : 2018-09-30

History

Kim Mellius Flyvholm Larsen was a Danish musician, singer/songwriter and performer. He was a major selling Scandinavian act with over 2.5 million albums sold. In 1969 he met Franz Beckerlee and Wili Jønsson, and the three founded the band Gasolin'.

Profile

Kim Larsen
Kim Larsen
Kim Larsen

Movies

Gasolin'
Lead singer
Intimate portrait of Denmark's most influential rock band Gasolin'. For the first time ever since they split up in 1978 the four band members reflect upon their career and why they parted.
Gasolin United
Lead singer
Mr. Nice Guy
Music
Stig Møller - et ægte blomsterbarn
"Stig Møller - a genuine flower child" - a Danish musician and singer/songwriter who has been active in the alternative music movement since the early 1960's. He started out with bands like The Rivals and Blackbeat, became a folksinger with a solo career, met with poet Eik Skaløe and found the cult acid/folk/rock group Steppeulvene and much more.
Fish Out of Water
Sinke
The early 1990s: 300,000 Danes are out of work. Viggo, a machinist with two grown children, is silent about feelings, scared he'll lose his job, loud about the value of trade unionism, interested in his pet fish, and argumentative at dinner. His wife Oda puts up with his moods and works on family genealogy. When Viggo is laid off, he becomes a fish out of water, hardly looking for work, starting a garden, and taking up with Karen, a polished but unhappy widow. He lies to his wife about a union training and goes to Mallorca with Karen. When she stops the affair, Viggo ends up in a psychiatric ward and must figure out what's really important in his life and in his character
Kielgasten
Writer
Kielgasten
Kim Larsen
Campingplads
Music
Report from life at a campsite on Samsø. The campsite is seen as an introduction to Denmark, as a Danish microcosm.
In the Middle of the Night
Benny
Benny and Arnold are homeless and along with others living on Nørrebro in Copenhagen. The police is set to clear the building they squat in, but on the night of the forced eviction, local acid head Spacy jumps from the sixth floor.
66 Scenes from America
Himself
As a visual narrative it is reminiscent of a pile of postcards from a journey, which indeed is what the film is. It consists of a series of lengthy shots of a tableau nature, each appearing to be a more or less random cross section of American reality, but which in total invoke a highly emblematic picture of the USA.
You Are Not Alone
Young teenager Bo is too sensitive for the hothouse atmosphere of a boarding school run by a cold, unfeeling would-be man of the cloth. Lonely and scared, he finds a soulmate in the headmaster's son Kim with whom he forms a bond of friendship... that slowly grows into something more.
Christiania
Gasolin
Freetown Christiania, also known as Christiania, is an intentional community and commune of about 850 to 1,000 residents, covering 7.7 hectares (19 acres) in the borough of Christianshavn in the Danish capital city of Copenhagen. Christiania has been a source of controversy since its creation in a squatted military area in 1971. Its cannabis trade was tolerated by authorities until 2004. Since then, relations between Christiania and Danish authorities have been strained.
Skæve dage i Thy
Music
Documentary about the construction of Thy Lejren in 1970 - an alternative summer camp. Features concerts by bands such as Gasolin' and Gnags.
Skæve dage i Thy
Kim Larsen
Documentary about the construction of Thy Lejren in 1970 - an alternative summer camp. Features concerts by bands such as Gasolin' and Gnags.
Ang. Lone
'Ang.: Lone' is a sort of social realist 'rebellious teen movie'. It tells the story of a troubled, emotionally confused, and defiant 16-year-old girl called Lone. Lone runs away from a girls' home in Jutland and travels to the home of her foster parents. Her visit quickly gives rise to a conflict so she travels onward to Copenhagen. In Copenhagen she enters into lower and middle class milieus and the hippiesque underground, but she runs away from each of these because she manages to start conflicts with most people by acting aggressively aggrieved. Lone finds a boyfriend and becomes pregnant during the couple of months she spends in Copenhagen before she is found and placed in a mothers' home which she eventually runs away from in order to have an illegal abortion.
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