Product Details

• Actors: Nikolaj Lie Kaas, Mads Mikkelsen, Line Kruse, Ole Thestrup, Bodil Jørgensen
• Directors: Anders Thomas Jensen
• Writers: Anders Thomas Jensen
• Producers: Kim Magnusson, Margaret Matheson, Tivi Magnusson
• Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, DVD, Full Screen, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
• Language: Danish
• Subtitles: English
• Region: Region 1 encoding (US and Canada only)
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• Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: R (Restricted)
• Studio: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
• DVD Release Date: May 17, 2005
• Run Time: 100 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B0007Y9JD8
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #71,346 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "The Green Butchers" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

Editorial Reviews

Bjarne & svend are pals who open their own butcher shop which enables them to escape from their vicious boss holger but the shop doesnt do well until a bizarre coincidence leads svend to concoct a new dish for their organic butcher shop. Business boomes but will they still be able to obtain the ingredients? Studio: Sony Pictures Home Ent Release Date: 04/28/2009 Starring: Mads Mikkelsen Nickolaj Lie Kaas Run time: 95 minutes Rating: R

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars It's all in the Marinade, baby!, March 13, 2006

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Fiendishly Bookish "fiendishlybookish" (The Virtual Ether....) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Green Butchers (DVD)

A thoroughly enjoyable romp into the gastronomical endeavors of two every enterprising (albeit sullen) butchers who market their "special" marinated chicky-chicken to the neighbors of their village.
And just how do you get the money to start your own butcher shop from scratch? Well it ain't cheap!
You turn off the life support system of your ailing twin-brother and collect on the insurance money that has been in limbo for the past 10 years while he has been withering away in a coma.
Finally armed with the moola to leave their lackluster jobs slaving away in their bosses butcher shop and not getting credit due for their incredible sausages and marinade, Svend and Bjarne launch their own shop.
Before they even open for their first day of business, a routine repair job goes sour, when Svend accidentally offs the freezer repairman by mistakenly locking him in. At least we know the freezer works now!
And if that weren't good enough, Svend hacks off the repairman's leg and sells it under pressure to produce a "special" meat that the finicky villagers will like. It is not until the Rotary Club dinner where the meal is a smashing success that they enjoy real success (all due to Svend and Bjarne's special chicky-chicken). Once the word is out the villagers have got to have more! And the pressure is on!
A great flick that you can laugh all the way through, non-stop shenanigans drawn out in that distinctly surreal European style. You are watching a sophisticated and gruesome black comedy that will make you want MORE. And yes....finally a horror movie with a happy ending.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Danish Treasure, May 18, 2005

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Mr Brian - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Green Butchers (DVD)

This tale from the kingdom of Denmark is all about Svend and Bjarne, two butchers who find themselves fired, they then open their own little meat market and after a shaking start of business, Svend discovers that the customers has a very special taste for a very special kind of meat.

From here the tale takes us from laughter to nail biting horror as we get kicked into a world of morbidity and murder.

Svend is played by Mads Mikkelsen, whom you best know as Tristan of "King Arthur" and recently as Le Chiffre in the newest James Bond movie "Casino Royale".

Great entertainment for your money.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Green Butchers, August 28, 2006

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A Customer - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Green Butchers (DVD)

I love it when a skilled group of actors takes an absurdly funny situation and plays it absolutely straight and serious, without mugging for the camera, without pausing so you can laugh, and most certainly without a laugh track. Dark humor? I suppose, since it has murder and stuff. Svend and Bjarne open a butcher shop in this film, which the cover blurb calls "deceptively simple and wickedly funny." Yeah, that's what it is. It's Danish, the director has a strong Academy Award resume, and I don't care. I just know I enjoyed it immensely. It also features some very clever dialog, and you know I love word play.