Green Butchers is a comedy drama by Danish director Anders Thomas Jensen, which was released in 2003. The main roles in this tape were played by Nikolai Lie Kaas and Mads Mikkelsen. The tape almost immediately got a large number of fans, but at the same time managed to shock many with its unpredictable plot and naturalism.
Plot
The picture "Green Butchers" tells of two friends, whose names are Sven and Bjorn. They have long been working as butchers for an unpleasant and arrogant boss who constantly humiliates them. Therefore, friends decide to open their own butcher shop, in which they themselves will be the owners.
They manage to realize this idea, but on the day the store opens, not a single visitor comes to them. At the same time, unlucky businessmen accidentally lock in the freezer a local electrician who comes to establish equipment. They discover his corpse only the next day.
At this moment, their former boss comes to the shop, who begins to scoff at them, calling them losers. Moreover, he begins to accuse Sven of not being able to cook meat. To take revenge on Holger, he cuts the corpse of an electrician, sells a part of a man under the guise of a chicken to the former boss. Holger is cooking this meat for his dinner party.
To everyone’s surprise, everyone enjoys the meat served at dinner; rumors are circulating around the city of an unprecedented delicacy that can only be bought in this butcher shop. Sven and Berne themselves explain to others around their success by using a special marinade, and a huge queue of people who want to taste this yummy is being built in their store.
However, the success that came to them so unexpectedly is soon getting ready to leave them, as the electrician is "ending", they are faced with the question of where in the future to get raw materials that the townspeople liked so much.
Producer
The film "Green Butchers" was directed by Danish director Anders Thomas Jensen. This is a fairly well-known cinematographer in Scandinavia, who, as a rule, also writes scripts for his films.
His first success came in 1999, when he received an Academy Award for Best Short Feature Film, entitled "On Election Night." It tells about the main character, who is in a hurry to vote at the polling station at the last minute, but unforeseen circumstances constantly prevent him from doing this.
In 2010, Suzanne Bir’s dramatic thriller Revenge, to which Jensen wrote the screenplay, received the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.
Mads Mikkelsen
Iconic actor Mads Mikkelsen plays one of his buddies named Sven in the movie The Green Butchers. This is one of the most famous contemporary Danish actors. He has been playing cinema since the mid-90s. At that time, his most notable works were the tape "Dealer", "Lost" and "Angel of the Night."
Worldwide popularity came to him in 2013, when he began playing the maniac Hannibal Lecter in the crime drama series Hannibal. This is an American serial film, everything was filmed for three seasons, which consisted of 39 episodes.
His most famous work in auteur cinema is the main role in Thomas Winterberg's drama "The Hunt", for which he received a prize at the Cannes Film Festival for Best Actor.
Nikolay Lie Kaas
His partner Bjorn in "Green Butchers" is played by another Danish actor - Nikolai Lie Kaas. For him, this work has become one of the most prominent in his career.
In the movie, he made his debut at the age of 17 in the military drama "Boys from St. Petri", played a young resistance fighter. For this role, he immediately received the prestigious Danish film awards "Robert" and "Bodil" for the best supporting role.
Once again, he won the Bodil Prize in 1998 when he played Jeppe in Lars von Trier's comedy drama Idiots.
Reviews
Reviews of the film "Green Butchers" were very controversial. Thanks to the original and unexpected plot, the picture became known far beyond Denmark. In particular, she took part in the program of the international Brussels Film Festival.
In the audience’s reviews, the film “Green Butchers” is rated mostly positively. Most note that the movie turned out to be really realistic, allowing you to look into the depths of the human essence. Moreover, it was shot really professionally, you believe every shot, all the actions and characters of the characters are spelled out so deeply and completely that there is no doubt about the validity of their various actions.
Despite the rather gloomy and even eerie plot, especially judging by the short description, this is, in fact, a bright movie. Fans of the film insist that its genre cannot be defined as horror, but only as good drama.
Finally, a flawless game bribed everyone. The creators of Green Butchers managed to gather almost all of the best Danish actors of our time on one set.
Finally, the presentation is framed with irony and black humor, as Jensen subtly knows how and loves to do it.