Sirup (film)

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Sirup
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Directed by Helle Ryslinge
CinematographyDirk Brüel
Music by Peer Raben
Release date
  • 1990 (1990)
CountryDenmark

Sirup is a 1990 Danish drama film written and directed by Helle Ryslinge. [1] It was entered into the main competition at the 47th Venice International Film Festival. [2]

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Plot

Lasse Jager, a salesman at a Danish convenience store, decides to move to the fictional village of Raker, Minnesota, home to a large Danish diaspora. Lasse meets and marries an American woman, and returns with her to Denmark. However, unbeknownst to him, they are filming a sitcom called "Sirup" in the convenience store he works at, which parodies the store's workers - including him. Lasse must decide if he wants to star in the sitcom as an actor, or take it to the police, while also having to deal with a man who is a regular at the store, but later finds out that he is a rapist who escaped from prison.

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References

  1. Variety Film Reviews , Volume 21. R R Bowker Pub., 1990.
  2. Giorgio Cecchetti (31 July 1990). "A Venezia spira il vento dell'ovest". La Repubblica . p. 25.