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The Green Butchers is a danois film of genre Comedy directed by Anders-Thomas Jensen released in USA on 11 november 2003 with Mads Mikkelsen

The Green Butchers (2003)

De grønne slagtere

The Green Butchers
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Released in USA 11 november 2003
Length 1h35
OriginDanemark
Genres Comedy
Rating71% 3.599113.599113.599113.599113.59911

The Green Butchers (Danish: De grønne slagtere) is a 2003 Danish film starring Mads Mikkelsen, Nikolaj Lie Kaas, and Line Kruse, written and directed by Anders Thomas Jensen. It is a black comedy featuring two butchers, Svend "Sweat" and Bjarne, who start their own shop to get away from their arrogant boss. Cannibalism is soon introduced to the plot, and further complications arise due to the reappearance of Bjarne's mentally challenged twin brother Eigil.

Synopsis

The film opens with Svend barbecuing tiny steaks in a backyard. His fiancée Tina bothers him about the food. Bjarne arrives and is introduced to one of Tina's co-workers. While they eat, Bjarne does not take to Beate's flirtation and kicks her under the table until she leaves crying. The next day, as Holger tells a customer a particularly blunt story about sausages, Svend complains to Bjarne that they could open a better butcher shop. Holger insults them and tells Svend that his marinade is terrible. Soon thereafter, Svend meets with "House Hans", a realtor, and Bjarne at a closed butcher shop, and decides to purchase it and open his own shop. Bjarne visits the sanatorium where his brain dead brother Eigil is being kept alive on machines, and tells Nurse Juhl to take him off life support because he needs the money he inherited. Back at the shop Svend and Bjarne prepare the shop for opening. They discuss hiring an electrician to fix the lights in the meat freezer, and business cards. Bjarne then visits the cemetery where his parents and wife are buried. Astrid introduces herself and Bjarne invites her to the opening of his shop.

Actors

Mads Mikkelsen

(Svend)Nikolaj Lie Kaas

(Bjarne / Eigil)Nicolas Bro

(Hus Hans)Bodil Jørgensen

(Tina)Jakob Cedergren

(Levnedsmiddelkontrollen)
And :
Lily Weiding
Camilla Bendix
Tomas Villum Jensen
Mia Lyhne
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