07/03/2003 - Cinema-going continues to grow year-on-year. Susanne Bier’s Open Hearts from Zentropa was in the Top 20 last year

Cinema-going continues to grow year-on-year in Denmark. In 2002, 12.9m Danes went to the cinema, 1 million more than in 2001 and an increase of 7.8 per cent. According to figures just published on 5 March by the Danish Film Institute, this is almost three million more than during the 90s.
Although half a million fewer tickets were sold for Danish films in 2002: 3.5 million, the market-share for Danish films remains amongst the highest in Europe with 27 per cent of all admissions.
Eight Danish films were in the Top 20 last year, they included Tomas Villum Jensen’s My Sister’s Kids 2 from Moonlight Film, and Susanne Bier’s Open Hearts [+see also:
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The other six Danish films in the chart include Old Men in New Cars [+see also:
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