The Bench
26/08/2000
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.
Movie Information
Jesper Christensen
as Kaj
Nicolaj Kopernikus
as Stig
Jens Albinus
as Kim
Sarah Boberg
as Connie
Lars Brygmann
as Lars
John Martinus
as Toilet Attendant
Petrine Agger
as Nurse
Anette Støvelbæk
as Kim's Neighbor
Marius Sonne Janischefska
as Jonas
Stine Holm Joensen
as Liv
Benjamin Boe Rasmussen
as Bo
Lars Ranthe
as Kaptajnen
Holger Perfort
as Mr. Nandrup
Britta Lillesøe
as Lis
Ann Kristine Schmidt
as Receptionist
Rikke Bendsen
as Irene
Ali Kahn
as Merchant
Michael Bengtson
as Michael
Kim Lerche Nielsen
as Kim
Erik Rasmussen
as Tarzan
Yousef Sundoo
as Immigrant Boy 1
Fraz Jamil
as Immigrant Boy 2
Erik Hovby Jørgensen
as Carsten (uncredited)
Søren Malling
as Man (uncredited)
