When a Clown becomes a Player, no fewer than 100 screens will do
- Danish director Tomas Villum Jensen's new comedy starring Danish comedians Casper Christensen and Rasmus Bjerg will open on June 20
When Danish comedians Casper Christensen and Frank Hvam appered in Danish director Mikkel Norgaard's 2010 Clown: The Movie [+see also:
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So when Player, Christensen's first comedy since then, co-starring Rasmus Bjerg and directed by Tomas Villum Jensen - (pictured: Christensen about to sniff a line of cocaine from the lower back of a woman) - will be released in Denmark on June 20, Nordisk Film Biograf Distribution will occupy around 100 screens for one of its biggest openings so far.
Scripted by Marie Østerbye, Player is the story of a self-controlled, rule-based and extremely dull lawyer, who is sent to Nice to handle a simple divorce case. He is fish-out-of water: as soon as he sets foot on French soil, everything goes wrong - he messes up big time, is cheated for $2 million company money, and his future suddenly looks less than bright.
Fortunately, he stumbles into an old friend, a frivolous gambler of easy virtue (Christensen), and together they conjure up a James Bond-style plan, to get his fortune back from the hustlers. "On the Côte d'Azur anything can happen, and it does," as Christensen concludes.
With a cast of Ellen Hillingsø, Lars Brygmann, Mille Lehfeldt, Lisbeth Wullf, Jens Jørn Spottag, Lise Koefoed and Ditte Arnt, Player was shot in France and produced Malene Blenkov and Michael Schønnemann, for Blenkov and Schønnemann Pictures, with Kanzaman-Monaco and Danish pubcaster DRTV.
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