Dance of the Polar Bears

Feb 5, 1990

1h 29m

★ 6.2

Overview

At age 12, Lasse is a tough guy and a bright one. His life is changed when his mother, pregnant at the time, abandons his beloved father. She takes Lasse with her to live with her new paramour, a dentist as authoritarian as Lasse's Elvis Presley-fan butcher dad was easy-going. The dentist has a daughter, too, and she is a jealous schemer. Lasse tries hard to conform, but can a tiger change its stripes?

Genres

Drama

Family

Production Companies

Metronome Productions

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Cast

Lasse

Anders Schoubye

Lasses far

Tommy Kenter

Lasses mor

Birthe Neumann

Hilding, Lasses stedfar

Paul Hüttel

Lollo, Hildings datter

Laura Drasbæk

Gubbi

Hakim Bellman Jacobsen

Tina

Kristine Horn

Lærer

Stig Hoffmeyer

Mother of Tina

Vibeke Hastrup

Schoolboy

Christian Potalivo

Skoleelev

Dominik Czamacki

Skoleinspektør

Henrik Larsen

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6.9

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6.3

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7.1

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4.9

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5.0

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6.2

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6.9

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4.3

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0.0

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6.9

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7.8

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6.7

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5.5

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6.7

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7.7

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0.0

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