Country
Denemarken
Year
2005
Language
Danish spoken, English subtitles
Director
Anders Thomas Jensen
A neo-Nazi, a gullible pastor, and a wormy apple tree: Adam’s Apples is an absurd, pitch-black parable about faith, redemption, and stubborn optimism against all odds. It won the Audience Award at the Imagine Film Festival.
When the aggressive neo-Nazi Adam is placed in a national reintegration project led by the imperturbable pastor Ivan, a clash seems inevitable. While Ivan refuses to acknowledge evil, Adam tries to turn his task—baking an apple pie from the church orchard—into a cynical farce. But reality proves more capricious, crueler, and more comical than he could have imagined.
In Adam’s Apples, heaven and hell collide in a darkly comic tale of guilt, mercy, and the ineradicable power of denial. Mads Mikkelsen and Ulrich Thomsen shine in this modern fairy tale full of absurd humor and improbable hope—both poignant and redemptive.
The Complete Anders Thomas Jensen
In honor of the release of The Last Viking, Anders Thomas Jensen’s sixth feature film as a director, we’ll be screening in December the five films he directed prior to it. Each one is an absurdist gem full of pitch-black humor and grotesque situations, yet always marked by a keen eye for human behavior and unexpected tenderness.
Agenda
There are no new dates planned (yet) for Adam's Apples - 20th Anniversary.
