The Parallel Corpses

March. 05,1982

Rating：

5.9

Genre：

Drama Horror Crime

Keywords：

Death Blackmail Lolita

Trailer Synopsis Cast

Jørgen Kiil as Allan Berg

Buster Larsen as Hans Thomsen

Agneta Ekmanner as Karen Bentzen

John Hahn-Petersen as Larsen

Peter Steen as Kriminalassistent

Peter Ronild as Kriminalkommissar

Poul Bundgaard as Bedemand

Lily Broberg as

Bjørn Puggaard-Müller as

Anne Werner Thomsen as

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Reviews

Hottoceame

1982/03/05

The Age of Commercialism

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Teringer

1982/03/06

An Exercise In Nonsense

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TeenzTen

1982/03/07

An action-packed slog

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Afouotos

1982/03/08

Although it has its amusing moments, in eneral the plot does not convince.

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udar55

1982/03/09

With a title more befitting to a giallo, THE PARALLEL CORPSE is an engaging thriller from Denmark. Based on a novel by Frits Remar, the film features an exciting game of cat and mouse as a two equally despicable characters battle it out to stave off the uncovering of their respective crimes.The biggest surprise in THE PARALLEL CORPSE is the bleakness of the characters. The scenario is filled with such moral wretchedness with both of the leads equally scummy in their depiction. Allan is a murderous letch who is angered by the thought of someone blackmailing him for his crimes. Hans is an elderly mortuary worker who has no qualms about selling used coffins and pillaging corpses of their valuables. This is not a clear good guy/bad guy scenario but, in the end, both men pay for their misdeeds. Strangely, I found myself siding more with Hans. Sure, he may pry rings off of dead folks, but at least he never murders anyone.My sympathy for Hans probably results from the performance by Buster Larsen. You end up rooting for him the same way one hopes Elliot Gould will succeed in his crime in THE SILENT PARNTER. Apparently a popular comic actor in Denmark, Larsen, who looks a bit like Peter Lorre, presents Hans as a silent man barely making it in life, a proverbial underdog. With his weathered face and clustered single room apartment, you can't help but feel sorry for him. In contrast to Hans' insignificance, the filmmakers present Allan as a well-to-do businessman with a cutthroat approach to life. Kiil, who resembles perennial bad guy James B. Sikking, is cold and calculating in his approach. Although I doubt the filmmakers intended it, there is a strong theme of the haves vs. the have-nots in this film.

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jarnis10

1982/03/10

Allan Berg is sleeping with his new wife's daughter. The daughter threatens to tell the mother, so he kills her. Hans Thomsen, who works in a mortuary, figures the motive out - as he is examining the daughters corpse for possible jewelery or other values he can steel. He starts to blackmail Allan Berg. But Berg is determined to hold on to his rich wife and therefore a deadly game of mouse and cat sets off. A great thrill and a very exciting and realistic plot with the good old message, that greed never leads to anything good.

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