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Bodil Ipsen is a Actor and Director Danoise born on 30 august 1889 at Copenhagen (Danemark)

Bodil Ipsen

Bodil Ipsen
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Birth name Bodil Louise Jensen Ipsen
Nationality Danemark
Birth 30 august 1889 at Copenhagen (Danemark)
Death 26 november 1964 (at 75 years) at Copenhagen (Danemark)

Bodil Ipsen (1889–1964) was a Danish actress and film director, and is considered one of the great stars of Danish cinematic history. Her acting career, which began in theater and silent films, was marked by leading roles in large folk comedies and melodramas. However, it was as a director that she was most influential: directing the first Danish film noir and making several dark psychological thrillers during the 1940s and 1950s. Ipsen's name along with that of Bodil Kjer is given to Denmark's most celebrated film prize, the Bodil Award.

Biography

Ipsen's steady career on stage was offset by a volatile personal life. She was married four times. Ipsen was married the first time in 1910 with the actor Jacob Texière, but the marriage was dissolved within the same year. Then, in 1914, she married civil engineer H.H.O. Moltke, and they divorced after three years. Her marriage in 1919 with film director Emanuel Gregers lasted four years. Ipsen was married for a fourth time in 1932 to the journalist Ejnar Black. They remained together for 17 years until Black's death in 1949. After Black's death, Ipsen isolated herself outside of work, preferring the company of her assistant and housekeeper, Stella Jensen.




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I discovered living together with (Bodil Ipsen) the last ten years of her life a person of infinite talents. A generosity that really knew no limits as well as a noticeable and strange distrust of people, who otherwise she would have been close to.

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Usually with

Lau Lauritzen Jr.
Lau Lauritzen Jr.
(5 films)
Poul Reichhardt
Poul Reichhardt
(6 films)
Johannes Meyer
Johannes Meyer
(5 films)
Preben Lerdorff Rye
Preben Lerdorff Rye
(4 films)
Per Buckhøj
Per Buckhøj
(4 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Bodil Ipsen (11 films)

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The Face of Truth
The Face of Truth (1951)
, 1h35
Directed by Lau Lauritzen Jr., Bodil Ipsen
Origin Danemark
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors Lau Lauritzen Jr., Johannes Meyer, Lisbeth Movin, Ib Schønberg, Grethe Thordahl, Jørn Jeppesen
Rating61% 3.086493.086493.086493.086493.08649
Troels Rolff, a young architect (played by Lau Lauritzen Jr.), is questioned as a suspect for the rape and murder of a 10-year-old girl. He pleads his innocence, and yet he is unable to explain what he was doing the day of the murder. Rolff’s world breaks apart as those closest to him – his wife, his father, his pastor and his friends—react to his arrest with varying degrees of suspicion. Even when cleared of the charges, the question remains if he can ever return to his former life of joy and innocence.
Red Meadows
Red Meadows (1945)
, 1h25
Directed by Lau Lauritzen Jr., Bodil Ipsen
Origin Danemark
Genres Drama, War
Themes Political films
Actors Poul Reichhardt, Preben Kaas, Lisbeth Movin, Per Buckhøj, Lau Lauritzen Jr., Kjeld Jacobsen
Rating66% 3.3281553.3281553.3281553.3281553.328155
In German-occupied Denmark during WWII, the young Danish saboteur Michael (Poul Reichhardt) sits in a Gestapo jail and awaits his execution. His thoughts go back to the events that led to his capture. In a meadow in Jutland, Michael and his comrades wait for a British airdrop of weapons and explosives to use for the resistance. Afterward, while in his hideout, Michael is surprised by German soldiers. He shoots his way out and is able to slip free. On a country road, a car driven by a German Field Officer (Arne Hershold) stops. Michael overpowers the officer and shoots him. Dressed in the officer's uniform, Michael is able to reach Copenhagen and find his girlfriend Ruth (Lisbeth Movin) at the hotel where she lives. Toto (Lau Lauritzen), the leader of the resistance group, is waiting for him. They are planning to sabotage a weapons factory. However, there is suspicion that there is an informant in the group, so the plan is delayed. One of the group's members, Dreyer (Freddy Koch), is arrested, so Ruth and Michael flee to her uncle's summer house. Ruth is frightened of losing Michael. She says, If you die, then everything is meaningless - then I'm not a person anymore - and the meadows aren't green anymore -- they are colored the red of your blood. Plans for the sabotage are completed and the group goes into action. But it is revealed that there has been an informant, when the group is surprised by soldiers lying in wait for them. During the firefight, Michael is wounded. However, he is able to blow up the factory before he is captured. Back in the Gestapo jail, the prison guard Steinz (Per Buckhøj) who hates the war and the Nazis, tries to help Michael in small ways, but is unable to prevent his torture. Michal is able to resist during the brutal torture, but he is condemned to death. While in jail, Michael suspects who the informant is and through Steinz gets a message to his comrades: The apple is rotten. A trap is set and Prikken (Preben Neergaard) reveal himself as the informer. There is no other way but to kill him and it is not difficult to find members who will do it. While being driven to his execution, Steinz tells Michael that he has received a message—Steinz's entire family was killed during an Allied aerial bombardment that week. Michael asks Steinz to escape with him. Steinz declines and shoots himself in the car. Michael flees and seeks refuge in a bakery where he is able to contact Toto. Both Michael and Ruth find transport to Sweden where they can finally rest.