Sex, Drugs & Taxation

Aug 29, 2013

1h 50m

★ 6.5

Overview

Maybe the best thing to come out of Scandinavia during the hippie years was, in fact, the story of a radical libertarian and a hedonist capitalist. Their friendship, forged by being outsiders in a conformist country, took them through years of adulation and success, with slight detours into the welcoming arms of vilification and imprisonment. A joyride through taxation, mass travel, hookers and politics. Not feeling too constrained by historical facts, director Christoffer Boe's story of Simon Spies and Mogens Glistrup covers just a few of their decades in a tale of warmth and humour, defiance and eccentricity.

Genres

Comedy

Drama

Production Companies

AlphaVille Pictures Copenhagen

Nordisk Film Denmark

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Cast

Simon Spies

Pilou Asbæk

Mogens Glistrup

Nicolas Bro

Dommer Bergsøe

Jesper Christensen

Jurij Moskvitin

Jakob Højlev Jørgensen

Jan Schmidt

Kasper Leisner

Lene Glistrup

Trine Pallesen

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Linda Avanu

Morten Hebsgaard

Inger Weile

Camilla Lehmann

Thomas L. Corneliussen

Sarah-Sita Lassen

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