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| Two famous Danish actors caught in an unusual situation in the home, along with a long list of the popular ensemble, make up this poster for Annelise Hovmand's Høfeber |
An aging judge is completely aware that his wife is screwing his good old doctor friend. But his surroundings are far from as cool about this as he is...
Høfeber is written by Arne Forchhammer (Klikk (1986-87)) and co-writer/director Annelise Hovmand (Hvorfor Stjæler Barnet (1955)), adapting the same-titled 1975 novel by Leif Panduro (Øgledage (1961)). The title translates to 'hay fever'.
It is an ingenious web of relationships that run more or less amuck in this pretty amusing film with good performances from especially Frits Helmuth (En Kærlig Omstigning (1994, TV movie)) and Peter Schrøder (Aching Hearts/Kærestesorger (2009)) as the sex-crazed man of wealth who winds up in trouble. SPOILER The plot line about Helmuth's adult son (Thomas Mørk (Prop and Berta/Prop og Berta (2000))), who naively loses his father's funds again and again, - and with whom the troubled judge finally decides to elope South with, claiming to have passed away, is regrettably insipid and a bit too thick. The female characters are the least faceted, and especially Lisbeth Dahl's (Men & Chicken/Mænd og Høns (2015)) character is overly mannered and hysterically overwrought.
A short video that puts spotlight on the films of Hovmand
Cost: Unknown
Box office: Around 530k $
[Høfeber was released 20 December (Denmark) and runs 84 minutes. It sold 62,686 tickets in Denmark, coming to around 3.65 mil. DKK (average 1991 ticket prize 58 DKK), around 530k $. Hovmand retired after the film's release. Helmuth returned in Det Forsømte Forår (1993). 118 IMDb users have given Høfeber a 4.7/10 average rating.]
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