The Bench

The story

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.

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This film

The Bench

2000

The Inheritance

2003

Manslaughter

2005

Cast

J Jesper ChristensenKaj N Nicolaj KopernikusStig J Jens AlbinusKim S Sarah BobergConnie L Lars BrygmannLars J John MartinusToilet Attendant P Petrine AggerNurse A Anette StøvelbækKim's Neighbor M Marius Sonne JanischefskaJonas S Stine Holm JoensenLiv B Benjamin Boe RasmussenBo L Lars RantheKaptajnen

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H Holger PerfortMr. Nandrup B Britta LillesøeLis A Ann Kristine SchmidtReceptionist R Rikke BendsenIrene A Ali KahnMerchant M Michael BengtsonMichael K Kim Lerche NielsenKim E Erik RasmussenTarzan Y Yousef SundooImmigrant Boy 1 F Fraz JamilImmigrant Boy 2 E Erik Hovby JørgensenCarsten (uncredited) S Søren MallingMan (uncredited)