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ADAM'S APPLES
Dark Comedy | Denmark | Danish w/ English Subtitles
Denmark's Academy Award® Submission for Best Foreign Language Film
"a funny, politically incorrect and, somewhere deep down, thoughtful black comedy…"
- Gunnar Rehlin, Variety
Running Time: 94 Minutes
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Synopsis
Ivan is an insanely optimistic preacher who takes in convicts to help around the remote, rural church he ministers to. His current charges are a psychotic Saudi immigrant addicted to robbing gas stations and an alcoholic tennis pro convicted of sexual assault. His newest "helper" is Adam, a vicious neo-Nazi anxiously biding his time before he can return to hell-raising. Asked to set a goal for his stay, Adam sarcastically answers that he'd like to bake a cake. Ivan cheerfully takes that statement at face value and puts him in charge of the parish's pride and joy: the only apple tree in the vicinity. Grasping the extent of Ivan's crazed, preternatural determination to look on the bright side of everything - Adam immediately decides to shake him out of his rose-colored stupor.
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Additional Info
Rights: USA & Canada
Formats: Digi Beta, Beta SP, DVD
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Cast and Crew
Starring: Ulrich Thomsen as Adam
Starring: Mads Mikkelsen as Ivan
Supporting: Nicolas Bro as Gunnar
Supporting: Ali Kazim as Khalid
Supporting: Paprika Steen as Sarah
Director: Anders Thomas Jensen
Writer: Anders Thomas Jensen
Producer: Tivi Magnusson
Producer: Mie Andreasen
Director of Photography: Sebastian Blenkov
Production Designer: Mia Stensgaard
Music: Jeppe Kaas
Editor: Anders Villadsen
Costume Designer: Jane Whittaker
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Related Genres
Comedy
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Discussion Guides
Adam's Apples Discussion Questions
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June, 19 2005
By Gunnar Rehlin
A funny, politically incorrect and, somewhere deep down, thoughtful black comedy, "Adam's Apples" is the third and final film in helmer-writer Anders Thomas Jensen's excellent trilogy centered on oddballs and misfits in Denmark. On home turf, film has already proved a hit... --Gunnar Rehlin/ Variety - Review
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By KL
This religious fable is jarringly wicked and funny. Adam (Ulrich Thomsen), a bald ex-con, steps off a bus in the middle of Danish nowhere. He's greeted by a priest named Ivan (Mads Mikkelsen), who wears shorts and is tall and magnetic in a Tony Robbins way, but boy is he cracked. The film centres on Ivan's quest to get Adam to tend to an unlucky apple tree and Adam's quest to break Ivan of his denial-fuelled goodwill. The film is an enormous amount of fun... --KL/ Eye Weekly - Review
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