Morten Bruus

Películas

Tarok
Cinematography
A family saga spanning three decades based on the mythology of the most famous race horse Denmark has ever seen. A horse which did the impossible and put Denmark on the world map through its many great victories. The film is first and foremost about the family who owned Tarok and believed in its greatness - and who, against all odds, gave Denmark hope and courage to dream.
Lost Generation
Cinematography
The film is based on Christian Kampmann's novels: "Certain Considerations", "Solid Relationships", "Clean Lines" and "Other Ways" (1973-75). The Gregersen family is a picture of inner and outer Denmark from the mid 50's to the 70's. The story begins in 1954 in the well-behaved, but not just successful, Gregersen family from the best part of the whiskey belt on the right side of Strandvejen.
Leïla
Cinematography
A young Danish guy, Nils, is visiting Morocco, where he meets the 16-year-old Berber girl Leïla. It marks the beginning of a great, all-encompassing passion. Leïla must defy her family to be with Nils, and their love has big consequences.
La belleza de las cosas
Director of Photography
En 1943, durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial, Stig, un joven de 15 años, comparte con sus compañeros de clase el interés adolescente por los misterios del sexo. Pronto descubre antes que nadie algo que no comparte con ellos: tiene un affair con su profesora, Viola, que está casada con Kjell, un vendedor ambulante de lencería. Kjell, que se apoda a si mismo Frank porque vende más, es amante de la ginebra, de Beethoven y de Mahler, y aunque está enamorado de su mujer, ocasionalmente también le es infiel. Al tiempo que tiene sus encuentros amorosos con Viola, Stig desarrolla una fuerte amistad con Frank.
The War Within: A Portrait of Virginia Woolf
Director of Photography
A portrait of Virginia Woolf, including a recreation of the furor around the 1910 and 1912 post-Impressionist exhibits, documentation of the Woolfs' contribution to the creation of the League of Nations, the recently discovered letters of Virginia Woolf to Vita Sackville-West, and the actual 1940 Gestapo arrest list that shows the Nazis' intention to arrest Leonard and Virginia Woolf. With archival footage, paintings of the period, and family photos of a Victorian childhood of both beauty and abuse, the film interweaves the personal story of Virginia’s life and loves with the turbulent times she lived in. Includes interviews with Woolf's acquaintances and relatives; and readings of her works.
The War Within: A Portrait of Virginia Woolf
Executive Producer
A portrait of Virginia Woolf, including a recreation of the furor around the 1910 and 1912 post-Impressionist exhibits, documentation of the Woolfs' contribution to the creation of the League of Nations, the recently discovered letters of Virginia Woolf to Vita Sackville-West, and the actual 1940 Gestapo arrest list that shows the Nazis' intention to arrest Leonard and Virginia Woolf. With archival footage, paintings of the period, and family photos of a Victorian childhood of both beauty and abuse, the film interweaves the personal story of Virginia’s life and loves with the turbulent times she lived in. Includes interviews with Woolf's acquaintances and relatives; and readings of her works.
Rami og Julie
Director of Photography
A Palestinian refugee living in Copenhagen is rescued from a gang of racist thugs by a young woman with whom he falls in love.
Rocking Silver
Director of Photography
Old rockers, like soldiers, never die, they only pass away. Well, Erik Clausen turns nostalgia into a vivid tribute to the moods and manners of the 1950s Danish Rock'n Roll by picking up a group of dispersed fellow bandsmen from wherever life and fate have left them stranded to have them revive their group and relive the good old days. A spirit of social solidarity permeates throughout.
The Circus Casablanca
Director of Photography
Film about a pair of traveling entertainers and con-men and their problems with jobs, money and women. We follow them in a period there it goes downhill with engagements. It's hard for them to realize that entertainers of their kind are about to become extinct.
Christmas by Your Friends
Director of Photography
Mads' father’s company is too small for a proper Christmas tree party, so Mads decides to arrange his own for himself and his best friend. But arranging such a party is easier said than done. It involves theft, intrigue and deception. Can Mads overcome the difficulties, or will there be no Christmas tree party?
Christiania
Camera Operator
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.
Boys
Director of Photography
A boy, as seen through three ages and episodes of his life: as a small boy having a boy cousin as his house guest, as a high-school boy in abject love, and as a young stud trying to bed down a nurse.
Quizá podríamos
Director
Kim es un quinceañero que vive con su madre. Su relación con ella no es muy buena por lo que trata por todos los medios de estar lo menos posible en casa. Después de ir a la escuela se pasa gran parte del día con su amigo Ole, con el que va a la ciudad y se divierte. Un día, cuando va al banco por encargo de su madre, este es asaltado por unos ladrones que le secuestran a él y a una chica llamada Marianne. Ambos permanecerán encerrados en una cabaña en el campo, pero lograrán escaparse y vivir durante unos días la vida a su manera, fuera de la sociedad y de los convencionalismos.