Product Details

• Actors: Mads Mikkelsen; Stine Stengade; Booivoj Navratil; Jana Plodkova; Josef Vajnar
• Directors: Ole Christian Madsen
• Writers: Ole Christian Madsen and Kim Fupz Aakeson
• Producers: Morten Kaufmann
• Format: NTSC
• Region: All Regions
• Studio: Nimbus Film Productions Aps
• DVD Release Date: January 2, 2009
• Run Time: 92 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B001OTZNYY
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #34,381 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "Prague" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

Customer Reviews

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17 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The incomparable Mads Mikkelsen, May 11, 2009

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K. Jeannette (Minneapolis, MN USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Prague (DVD)

A Danish couple travels to Prague to bring the husband's deceased father back home for burial. While in the beautiful city of Prague, the marriage starts to show cracks, and we empathize as the serious problems of this couple become apparent even as the husband is trying to get through the red tape to transport his father's body back home. Extremely well done, it leaves one almost breathless with the gut-level emotions portrayed by these people. It can be depressing to see such a realistic breakdown of a marriage, but it truly is amazing film making!

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Secrets in a Mysterious City, January 3, 2011

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Grady Harp (Los Angeles, CA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Prague (DVD)

Prague is considered by many to be one of the most beautiful old cities in Europe: it is also seen as clinging to many of the old traditions of the rigid life of the past - immutable, on guard, cold. It is therefore a very fitting setting for this brilliant film PRAGUE, a story written (with Kim Fupz Akeson) and directed by Ole Christian Madsen that deals with contemporary relationships, family, and the bifurcation between surface appearance and reality.

Christoffer (Mads Mikkelson) and his wife Maja (Stine Stengade) have traveled from Denmark without their young son to tend to the final paperwork following the death of Christoffer's father, a father he has not seen or communicated with for 25 years when the father left wife and son for Prague. Christoffer shows no emotion about this mission and even when the doctor (Josef Vajnar) demands Christoffer view the body for identification, there is no sense of sadness. His father's lawyer (Borivoj Navrátil) make all the arrangements for the shipment of the body back to Denmark and informs Christoffer that the financial balance sheet at the time of death leaves Christoffer with only the house in which his father lived, a place Christoffer plans to sell immediately to end this Prague obligation. But during all the 'business' of dealing with his father's death, Christoffer feels a distance from Maja and confronts her with his knowledge that she is having an affair. The veneer of their marriage cracks open and the couple must face the current status of their relationship, a widening crevice that is in many ways held together only by the frequent video calls with their son in Denmark. Theirs is a history of love examined.

Christoffer's closure with his father includes the discovery that his father had a beautiful singer/housekeeper Alena (Jana Plodková) who lived with the father with her daughter. When they meet they have no common language but Christoffer learns of his father's apparent abiding love for Christoffer. Another surprise hits Christoffer when he discovers the relationship between his father and the lawyer, a relationship that explains why the father left Denmark for Prague and a new life. With all the new information about the father he never knew Christoffer faces decisions about his own marriage and his role as a father to his own son and the last wishes of his father before he died. Though eager to return to Denmark there are 'procedural problems' that prolong the stay in Prague

PRAGUE is a story about love in all its permutations - disappointments, rewards, and longings both filled and unfulfilled. The manner in which each of the characters plays out the consequences of love against the cold background of the rigid atmosphere of the city of Prague is like watching organisms under a microscope. Enhanced by a powerful musical score by Jonas Struch and moody cinematography by Jørgen Johansson it is a powerful film, beautifully acted, and one with much food for thought even after the film is over. Grady Harp, January 11

9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars another danish gem, May 31, 2008

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Victoria Patterson (Wisconsin) - See all my reviews

Another fantastic film from Denmark by some of the geniuses behind Green Butchers, Adams Apples and After the Wedding - Mads Mikkelsen never ceases to delight.