Babette's Feast 1987  G, 105 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama / Musical / Romance
Director: Gabriel Axel
Cast: Stephane Audran, Birgitte Federspiel, Bodil Kjer, Vibeke Hastrup, Hanne Stensgaard, Jean-Philippe Lafont, Bibi Andersson, Jarl Kulle, Ghita Norby, Asta Esper Hagen Andersen, Thomas Antoni, Gert Bastian, Viggo Bentzon, Therese Hojgaard Christensen, Pouel Kern
This winner of an Oscar for Best Foreign Film is set in the 19th century and concerns two elderly Danish sisters–Philippa and Martine (Birgitte Federspiel and Bodil Kjer)–who take in a Parisian political refugee, Babette (Stephane Audran). Through flashbacks, the story shows young Philippa and Martine (played by Hanne Stensgaard and Vibeke Hastrup) giving up their chances at romance and following their father's desire for them to remain with him and to serve their church. Years after their father dies, Philippa and Martine celebrate what would have been his 100th birthday and agree to let Babette prepare a grand feast for the elders of their church. At the celebration, Babette offers the sisters a wonderful surprise that will give them a second chance at life.
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 Hunger 1966 N/R, 110 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
aka: Sult
Director: Henning Carlsen
Cast: Per Oscarsson, Gunnel Lindblom, Birgitte Federspiel, Knud Rex, Sigrid Horne-Rasmussen, Osvald Helmuth, Hans W. Petersen, Henki Kolstad, Roy Bjornstad, Sverre Hansen, Carl Ottosen
Set in Norway during 1890, this story involves the trials and tribulations of aspiring writer Pontus (Per Oscarsson) who manages to maintain his dignity while suffering abject poverty yet still searching for love and success as a writer.
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Ordet 1955  N/R, 125 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
aka: The Word
Director: Carl Theodor Dreyer
Cast: Henrik Malberg, Emil Haas Christensen, Preben Lerdorff-Rye, Cay Kristiansen, Birgitte Federspiel, Ann Elisabeth Rud, Susanne Rud, Ejner Federspiel, Ove Rud, Gerda Nielsen, Sylvia Eckhausen, Henry Skjaer
The fundamentalist Pedersen family and the free-thinking Borgens represent a diversity of faiths. When their children fall in love, the families are forced to come to grips and deal with their differences.
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| 1. Babette's Feast (1987)
2. Hunger (1966)
aka: Sult
3. Ordet (1955)
aka: The Word
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