Tag: perscheelkrüger

Having blown the doors off the Danish box office - where it set multiple records - and with the sequel already deep into the production process, Mikkel Norgaard's big screen adaptation of Jussi Adler Olsen's crime thriller The Keeper Of...

Crime thrillers undoubtedly play a huge role in the creation of Danish culture. There is a countless list of gritty, dark, suspenseful titles that made this particular genre a trademark of sorts of both Danish literature and films. Over the...

Also in today's edition of Euro Beat: Catherine Deneuve turns 70 and remains awesome, Alain Delon goes a little nuts at 77 (or has he always been?), promising films win at the London Film Festival, plus, Europe takes back its...

So, let's say it's 2010 and you're Danish director Mikkel Norgaard. You've just made the step into feature films with the big screen outing of popular television series Klown - which you previously directed six full seasons of - and...

Fans of the current wave of Nordic Noir - high class crime films and television series coming from Scandinavia, including the likes of The Killing, The Bridge and The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo - have been keeping an eye...

On the surface it is a move that feels like a remarkable departure - Mikkel Norgaard, best known as the director of outrageous Danish comedy Klown being handed the reins to a major new series of Danish crime novel adaptations...

Call it a change of pace for director Mikkel Norgaard. A really, really big change of pace. Best known as the director of Klown - or Clown, or Klovn, depending on where you are - the comedy for which he...