Weekend (1962)

Name: Weekend
Rating: 3.2

3.2 of 5 from 46 ratings

1h 24min

Not released

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Three dissatisfied and dysfunctional couples in their thirties spend a weekend together in a summer cottage. The host couple is prone to bickering regularly. The married couples - Jan (Erik Kühnau) and Ilse (Bente Dessau), and Kjeld (Willy Rathnov) and Tove (Birgit Brüel) that are visiting understand and try to stay out of the way. A drunkard called Lars (Jens Østerholm) is brought along by one of the couples. At the cottage Lars provokes the others and urges them to try something new. They are looking for something new - trying to break out from the straitjacket of their personalities.
And eventually a new day dawns, the weekend is over, and they must leave - early morning, the sea and the sky look gray. They need to return to their occupations - sadness, melancholy…A deep but simple film.
Actors:: Jens Østerholm, Birgit Brüel, Willy Rathnov, Elsebet Knudsen, Jesper Jensen, Bente Dessau, Erik Kühnau, Lotte Tarp, Hugo Herrestrup, Inga Reim, Carl Johan Hviid, Jørgen Beck, Tove Bang, Erik Paaske, Morten Kjærulff-Schmidt, Tine Kjærulff-Schmidt, Masja Dessau, Birgit Zinn, June Bergman
Directors:: Palle Kjærulff-Schmidt
Writers:: Klaus Rifbjerg
Genres:: Classics, Drama
Countries:: Denmark