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21 March 2003 (Denmark) moreTagline:
You never forget the taste of human flesh morePlot:
Svend and Bjarne work for a butcher in a small Danish town. Fed up with their boss' arrogance, they decide to start their own butcher shop... more | add synopsisPlot Keywords:
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7 wins & 8 nominations moreUser Comments:
A very dark, sober and realistic comedy more (27 total)Cast
(Credited cast)| Nikolaj Lie Kaas | ... | Bjarne / Eigil | |
| Mads Mikkelsen | ... | Svend | |
| Line Kruse | ... | Astrid | |
| Ole Thestrup | ... | Holger | |
| Bodil Jørgensen | ... | Tina | |
| Aksel Erhardtsen | ... | Reverend Villumsen (as Aksel Erhardsen) | |
| Lily Weiding | ... | Ms Juhl | |
| Nicolas Bro | ... | Hus Hans | |
| Camilla Bendix | ... | Beate, Tina's friend | |
| Elsebeth Steentoft | |||
| rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
| Kirsten Anderson | |||
| Jakob Cedergren | (as Jacob Cedergren) | ||
| Kristian Halken | |||
| Per Holm Henriksen | ... | Patient | |
| Tomas Villum Jensen | ... | Håndværker | |
| Jeppe Kaas | ... | Musiker | |
| Finn Kyhn | |||
| Henning Lajer | |||
| Peter Lambert | |||
| Karen Vinsten Lehrmann | |||
| Hanne Løvendahl | ... | Kunde i kø | |
| André Lundemann | |||
| Mia Lyhne | |||
| Christina Meyer | |||
| Laura Meyer | |||
| Oscar Meyer | |||
| Sofia Meyer | |||
| Kjeld Nørgaard | ... | Sundhedskontrollant #1 (as Keld Nørgaard) | |
| Birgit Olsen | |||
| Charlotte Pedersen | |||
| Lars Ranthe | |||
| Peter Reichhardt | ... | Sundhedskontrollant #2 | |
| Frans Rubæk | |||
| Kim Ruusuunen | |||
| Sanno | |||
| Peter Silberg | |||
| Flemming Sønderborg | |||
| Peter Steincke | |||
| Søren Thomsen | |||
| Mikkel Vadsholt | |||
| Dany Verissimo | ... | Girl (voice) | |
Additional Details
Also Known As:
The Green Butchers (International: English title)Les bouchers verts (Canada: French title) (France) [fr]
Dänische Delikatessen - Darf's ein bisschen mehr sein? (Germany) [de]
De gröna slaktarna (Sweden) [sv]
Jeongyukjeomui bimil (South Korea) [ko]
Marinadimestari (Finland) [fi]
Oi prasinoi hasapides (Greece) (DVD title) [el]
The Green Butchers (Germany) (festival title) [de]
Zöld hentesek (Hungary) [hu]
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Rated R for language, disturbing images and drug use.Parents Guide:
View content advisory for parentsRuntime:
100 min | Denmark:95 min | Canada:95 min (Ontario)Country:
DenmarkLanguage:
DanishColor:
ColorAspect Ratio:
2.35 : 1 moreCertification:
Canada:14A (Ontario) | UK:15 | Iceland:16 | Malaysia:(Banned) | Portugal:M/16 | Australia:M (DVD rating) | Denmark:11 | Sweden:15 | Germany:16 | USA:R | Australia:MAFun Stuff
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Svend: You don't threaten me with that animal! Please point that giraffe in another direction so we can get back to a pretty normal dialogue! moreSoundtrack:
Alene med en yndig pige moreFAQ
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De Grønne slagtere or The Green Butchers as it is called in English is a very dark comedy about two losers who work for a popular butcher. They are fed up with their bosses criticism and decide to start a business on their own. Their shop is expensive and it doesn't even have electricity all over the place. And to make things worse, they haven't got any customers (as their former boss predicted). When the man pays them a visit in their shop, he challenges them to provide the meat for a dinner party he organizes.
Than a tragic accident happens. One of the butchers locks the electrician into the freezing chamber when he closes the shop. The man dies and the neurotic one of the two butchers decides to cut fillets out of the electrician's thigh and serves it to the dinner party instead of calling the police. It's an incredible success. All at once every person in the village wants to taste that incredible "chicken". Overwhelmed by his sudden success the butcher sees no other option but to kill more people, who he can sell as chicken.
I guess that the subject cannibalism may not be enjoyed by everyone, especially not because it is shown with a lot of humor. Personally I liked it a lot. It shows perfectly how far some people would go for some social acceptance and to get out of their isolation. It may sound a bit far-fetched, but I'm sure you would be surprised to see how people in real life sometimes act.
Next to the original subject, I was also pleased by the actors' performances and the humor. There is no overacting, as you might expect in this kind of movies, it's all very sober and realistic (I guess that's typical for the Scandinavians and Scandinavian movies). The same for the humor. I'm sure I wouldn't have liked it as much as I did now if the humor had been over the top, or with a lot of farting, vomiting,... like you see so often in American movies. I loved this movie and I give it an 8/10.