Kirsten Rolffes
Birthday: Born in 1928-09-20 in København, Danmark
Deathday: 2000-04-10
TV Credits
Vinterbyøster
Character: Fru Nielsen
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Een stor familie
Character: Rigmor Gramme, fuldmægtig
One Big Family is a Danish television series in 12 episodes, first broadcast in 1982-1983. The series was directed by Bent Mejding, while the script was written in turns by Lise Nørgaard, Paul Hammerich and Jane Aamund. The series is produced by Nordisk Film for Danmarks Radio....
En by i provinsen
Character: Forstanderinden
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Livsens ondskab
Character: Fru Heilbunth
A satire of a typical Danish provincial town ca. 1900 with it's malicious, but merry portraits of the citizens. We meet the misshapen Emanuel Thomsen "Tummelumsen" and the two friends senior examining officer Knagsted and senior teacher Clausen....
Dr. Dip
Character: Krampe
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Landsbyen
Character: Ingeborg Andersen
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Matador
Character: Faster Anna
Matador is a Danish TV series produced and shown between 1978 and 1982. It is set in the fictional Danish town of Korsbæk between 1929 and 1947. It follows the lives of a range of characters from across the social spectrum, focusing specifically on the rivalry between the families of two businessmen: The banker Hans Christian Varnæs, an established local worthy, and social climber Mads Skjern, who arrives in town as the series opens. The name Matador was taken from the localised edition of the b...
Mørklægning
Character: Politisekretær
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Riget
Character: Sigrid Drusse
The Kingdom is the most technologically advanced hospital in Denmark, a gleaming bastion of medical science. A rash of uncanny occurrences, however, begins to weaken the staff's faith in science – a phantom ambulance pulls in every night, but disappears; voices echo in the elevator shaft; and a pregnant doctor's fetus seems to be developing much faster than is natural....
Københavnerliv
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Station 13
Character: Fru Simonsen
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Tre ludere og en lommetyv
Character: Jensen
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Ludvigsbakke
Character: Admiralinden Schleppegrell
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Movie Credits
Otto Is a Rhino
Character: Fru Flora
The boy Topper is bored. He finds a pencil that proves to have magical powers. Draw a rhino, and right away, you have a real rhino for a companion. A little heavy perhaps, when you live on the second floor. No matter, it's a modern fairy-tale of the baroque, and everything goes. Based on kiddie entertainment by Ole Lund Kirkegaard, but as was the case with the book, the fun is to be enjoyed by one and all....
The Kingdom
Character: Sigrid Drusse
At The Kingdom, Denmark's most technologically advanced hospital, a number of strange and otherworldly events begin occurring, much to the dismay of its doctors and patients. A ghostly ambulance appears and disappears, the voice of a little girl calls to a patient in an elevator shaft, and a doctor's fetus begins growing at an alarming rate....
Walter and Carlo - Up on Daddy's Hat
Character: Viola van Heimwee (Walters mor)
Walter's a handsome airline steward who catches the eye of Inge, winner of Malaga's Miss Moonlight contest. Carlo is a motor-mouthed goof who has a "heel bar" (a combination shoe shop and tavern); his companion, Elly, is shooting a video of him. Inge discovers she's an unwitting smuggler, bringing diamonds into Denmark in the heel of a sandal she's won at the beauty contest....
Walter and Carlo, Part II, Yes, It's Daddy
Character: Viola van Heimwee
Coffee has been outlawed and an organization of retired people smuggle coffee from the Swedish mafia, while Walter pursues his new love interest and Carlo deals with a midlife crisis after being dumped by his girlfriend....
Qivitoq
Character: Sygeplejerske Kirsten Prage
A young teacher, Eva Nygaard, arrives in Greenland from Denmark to surprise her fiancé, the Doctor Erik Halsøe, but is crushed to find he has not waited for her and he is about to be married to his assisting nurse. Eva travels to a small fishing village to await the next ship back to Denmark. There she enters into a tense and often confrontational relationship with Jens, a quiet moody Dane who manages a trading company outpost. Meanwhile, Jens is trying to persuade a Greenlander named Pavia to b...
The Son from Vingaarden
Character: Konsulinde Martin
The vineyard is facing demolition. It has been 30 years since Uncle Olsen died, and after 30 years, the farm must be sold if no one in the Martin family wants to buy it. When a Danish-American arrives in the small town, Jacobsen sends Nicoline to investigate the stranger's room. Erik Hein, born Martin, tries to buy the vineyard but is prevented from doing so. Instead, he buys Sophienberg. Many years ago, Erik's father signed a confession of embezzlement against the vineyard. Erik believes in his...
Casanova
Character: Sygeplejerske
Farcial action fun with Bertil and Hugo, who do menial jobs at a big city hotel. Bertil is about to marry and has put money aside for his bride's morning gift. Only Hugo has kind of borrowed the money and blown it all on a wrong bet in a pigeon race. Together, they obviously have to get rich quick. When a diamond seems to be lying around for the taking, the hotel is virtually on its head....
Tjenstlig tavshed
Character: Udenrigsminister
When parliamentary officer Bertelsen finds the body of a man in a light box at Christiansborg one day, he is immediately given time off with official silence, while a murder investigation is kept secret from the press. The dead man appears to be an international arms dealer, and the government has a problem explaining itself....
Nøddebo præstegård
Character: Rasmine - hans kone
Adaptation of the classic Danish Christmas story about Nikolaj, a student, and his two older brothers, who are spending their vacation with the kind pastor's family in Nøddebo. Nikolaj is very interested in the pastor's daughters, Emmy and Andrea Margrethe, but it is his brothers who end up getting engaged to the girls....
Elvis Hansen, en samfundshjælper
Character: Putte von Porter
In Nørrebro, in a property ripe for redevelopment, only one family remains: the Hansens. With Elvis as the head of the family. A welfare recipient who, sitting on the sofa with a beer in his hand, can fix the whole world situation, and Herdis Hansen, the all-embracing wife who provides electricity for her husband's TV and strolls around in a fur coat "given" to her by their son Brian. Despite the king's bailiff Kjeldsen's countless attempts to evict the Hansen family, Elvis manages to fend him o...
Hvad med os?
Character: Gorms hustru
Martin has just returned home from Africa and meets Lis at an anti-nuclear demonstration. They begin a relationship, but it is disrupted by his memories of the war. Martin seeks out his old group from the war, but the others are unwilling to talk about the past....
Rubber Tarzan
Character: Hundekvinde
Ivan is a very lonely 8 year boy who is bullied almost every day in school. Even his father taunts him because Ivan litteraly is a weakling (That should explain the title Rubber Tarzan). As a result of this Ivan spends a lot of his time on daydreaming until he meets a kind of kindred spirit - the friendly and lonely crane driver Ole....
Busters verden
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The television series was based on a play by Danish author Bjarne Reuter. In 1984 Reuter published his collection Tre skuespil ("Three Plays"); a collection containing also En dag i Hector Hansens liv ("A Day in the Life of Hector Hansen") and Kom der lys i neonrøret, gutter? ("Was There Light in the Neon Tube, Boys?") – in addition to Busters Verden....
The Man Who Thought Life
Character: Værtinden
The mysterious Mr. Steinmetz has acquired the ability to create things and beings by will alone. Only, after a while his creations invariably disappear. He therefore approaches a famous brain surgeon, Max Holst, who he hopes can help him with this problem. When Max refuses, Steinmetz brings his doppelgänger into being to replace him....
Pigen og drømmeslottet
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Tine is in love with the young owner of a beautiful castle, Karsten. She has been dreaming about the castle since she was a small child and visiting her auntie, who is a neighbor to the castle. But an evil plot has been made to take the castle from Karsten....
Rapportpigen
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Factory worker Vivi is pressured by her boyfriend to pose as a fold-out girl for the men's magazine Ugens Rapport. A man from the neighborhood begins to stalk her and call her. When she goes to the North Sea to find peace, he follows her. On the bus, Vivi meets middle-aged Harriet, a disillusioned man-hater, and they decide to teach her stalker a lesson. However, it takes a more serious turn than Vivi is prepared for....
Indenfor murene
Character: Esther
In an old Jewish family in Copenhagen, with its loyalty and close-knit community, there are some challenges when they run into the world outside their family circle....
I den grønne skov
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"Modern vaudeville," where the entire story takes place at Dyrehavsbakken. In an impressionistic style, it tells the story of the waiter Mowitz, who ponders whether he loves the singer Myrna and what true love really is. He ponders too long; Myrna instead becomes engaged to the pianist Bertram, who can get her into the Circus Revue. Mowitz also takes too long to discover the singer Lillian's interest, so his friend Max snatches her up instead, while Mowitz can continue his search for the one and...
Watch Your Back, Professor!
Character: Sekretær på Slavisk Institut
When a boring collage professor is mistaken for his cousin, he gets into all kinds of trouble, with hilarious results....
The Liar
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Johannes Vig lives a lonely life on Sandø. He is a schoolteacher, and since Sandø is currently cut off from the outside world due to ice, the island's population must fend for themselves. Johannes is secretly in love with both Annemari, the grocer's young daughter, and Rigmor, the farmer's wife. At the same time, Johannes' life is very bleak, and he finds it difficult to express his love. Life on the island is disrupted by Harry, a young engineer who is courting Annemari. Annemari's boyfriend is...
Vi som går køkkenvejen
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The beautiful and spoiled manufacturer's daughter Helga defiantly bets with her friends whether she can survive a whole year as a working housekeeper without financial help....
Gengæld
Character: Fru Donner
In one of Copenhagen's suburbs stands a large house, a villa-like property. The house is owned by the widow Elise Thomsen, who lives on the ground floor with her adult son, Eigil. Mrs. Thomsen rents out most of the villa. On the first floor lives the author Stefan Donner with his wife Lili and their 9-year-old son, Peter. Donner is talented but poor. The financial pressure on him and his family is getting on his nerves....
Et stykke på vej
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About a widow and her childhood difficulties, the film tells about the help for education, which Mothers' Aid provides after-school women with children, and at the same time touches other sides of the institution....
Sofie
Character: Jonas' Mother
Liv Ulmann's directorial debut also had her co-authoring the screenplay (with poet Peter Poulsen) as based on a Henri Nathansen's 1932 novel about an affluent late 19th century Jewish merchant family in Copenhagen. Ulmann focuses on strong-willed daughter Sofie's progress through life: a love affair with a gentile painter, an arranged marriage , childbirth and ever more fateful challenges....
Bella
Character: Lizzie
Bella is surrounded by external security, comfort, and expensive luxury. In her cold, unconnected everyday life, she randomly meets 20-year-old hippie Jacob. They share a sense of loneliness....
Agnus Dei
Character: Priorinden / The Prioress
The young girl Johanne is left by her mother at a solemn convent school. The school is a strange world to her, and when she feels unable to comply with the demands of faith she faces a difficult decision....
Skal vi danse først?
Character: Susannes mor
About sixteen-year-old Susanne and her relationship with her parents and friends. To make her friend Peter jealous, she flirts heavily with a forty-year-old silversmith from the sailing club where she works....
The Kingdom II
Character: Sigrid Drusse
The mutant fetus is born. Dr. Helmer comes under heavy scrutiny for a botched operation that left a patient braindead, and begins to dabble in the dark arts in order to ward off those seeking an end to his career. Hypochondriac Mrs. Drusse finally does have something bad happen to her medically when an ambulance hits her....
The Great Day on the Beach
Character: Fru Frederiksen
It is the adult Gustav Adolf, who tells the story of the momentous day when he as a little boy with his father and mother and the whole staircase, went to the beach to enjoy the pleasures of bathing. We are in 1930s working-class neighborhood in Copenhagen. In a backyard apartment, we meet the little working-up of small Gustav Adolf (Benjamin Rothenborg Vibe) who has great respect for his father, Axel (Erik Clausen). Father has a very lively gab and is always ready to tell a story from her excit...
May
Character: Lily
An everyday story about a young girl from the countryside and the people she meets when she moves to the big city to train as a hairdresser....
Historien om Kim Skov
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The boy Kim moves with his family from the countryside to a ghetto in a big city. He does not do too well in school, and that makes him an easy victim for the hard core bullies in the new school. When the group leader is moved to a private school, Kim is accepted in the gang - as long as he provides cigarettes for the other members. This of course leads to a confrontation with the school teachers, his family and eventually the gang members....
Final Act
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FINAL ACT is based on Noel Coward's play "Waiting in the Wings". Even the smallest events turn into mind-blowing dramas at The Set, a retirement home for former actresses in England. Jealousy and madness flare into a firework display of toxicity when ex-primadonna Lotta Henderson (Birgitte Federspiel) moves in. A slap in the face of The Set's leading star in her own eyes, May Davenport (Mime Fønss), who has had a lifelong rivalry with Lotta both on stage and off. The daily dramas reach dizzying...
Memories of a Marriage
Character: Regitzes mor
Karl Åge and Regitze host a summer garden party for close friends, their son, and his family. Karl Åge is quiet, detached; Regitze is spirited, lively. He thinks back: love at first sight during the war, living together unmarried, her mother's hunger strike when they won't baptize their son. Regitze is passionate and forthright; she speaks her mind. He remembers her inviting a derelict for Christmas dinner, and the man shows up with five bashful friends. He recalls her taking on their son's teac...