A fanatical parish priest as Job and apple pie as a way to reform the neo-Nazi... Neo-Nazi Adam arrives at a rural parish where he has been assigned as part of his community service. The delusional parish priest Ivan tasks Adam with baking an apple pie from the fruit of the parish tree, which has been attacked by a flock of ravens. The narrative of the confrontation of opposing bigoted attitudes has an almost magical realism at times, but in the spirit of the detachment and hyperbole typical of Scandinavian cinema, these moments on the borderline of the everyday and the miraculous are presented as bizarre and unfairly black-humoured situations. As a result, the story of the reformation of an aggressive extremist does not take the form of a half-measured agitprop, but an absurd mix of comedy and drama.
The festival hit is directed by Danish writer and director Anders Thomas Jensen, who has written many of Denmark's most distinguished films. Leading Danish actors Ulrich Thomsen and Mads Mikkelsen, who have also been cast in foreign and Hollywood films, have taken the lead roles.
Czech subtitles
Adams æbler
Comedy / Drama / Mystery
Denmark / Germany, 2005, 94 min
11 12 2024 / 20:00
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