video by Frank Stender for Europanet - Invideo

Shooting Stars at EFP

Dane Nikolaj Lie Kaas became famous after appearing in Soren Kragh-Jacobsen’s Drengene Fra Sankt Petri - he also won two awards. He also won the best supporting actor award in 1999 for Lars von Trier’s Idiots.

"I just worked on a film called The Green Butchers [+see also:
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'Norwegian saying/speech"'.. That means: 'I'm only good in English, in German I'm very bad, in French I'm very bad, so, that's what I know, Danish and English'".