Huset på Christianshavn was an 84-part television drama series broadcast in Denmark

Denmark

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 between 1970 and 1977. It was produced by the Nordisk Film

Nordisk Film

Nordisk Film , established in Denmark in 1906 by Danish filmmaker Ole Olsen, is the oldest continuously operating film studio in the world. Olsen started his company in the Copenhagen suburb of Valby under the name "Ole Olsen's Film Factory" but soon changed it to the Nordisk Film Kompagni...

 company for the national broadcasting corporation, DR

Danmarks Radio

DR – officially rendered into English as the Danish Broadcasting Corporation – is Denmark's national broadcasting corporation. Founded in 1925 as a public-service organization, it is today Denmark's oldest and largest electronic media enterprise...

. 48 of the episodes were also shown in the German Democratic Republic

German Democratic Republic

The German Democratic Republic , informally called East Germany by West Germany and other countries, was a socialist state established in 1949 in the Soviet zone of occupied Germany, including East Berlin of the Allied-occupied capital city...

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The series portrayed the lives of the residents of a block of flats in Christianshavn, an old part of Copenhagen

Copenhagen

Copenhagen is the capital and largest city of Denmark, with an urban population of 1,199,224 and a metropolitan population of 1,930,260 . With the completion of the transnational Øresund Bridge in 2000, Copenhagen has become the centre of the increasingly integrating Øresund Region...

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Cast

• Poul Reichhardt
  Poul Reichhardt
  Poul David Reichhardt was a Danish actor, well known for his roles in Danish 1940s/50s comedies. Later on, he also played more serious and varied roles; he has also starred in Huset på Christianshavn, Matador and as various minor characters in the Olsen Gang films.For almost thirty years...
  
   (Egon Olsen)
• Helle Virkner
  Helle Virkner
  Helle Genie Virkner was a Danish actress. She was married three times, including to then Danish Prime Minister Jens Otto Krag....
  
   (Sonja/Ellen Olsen)
• Jes Holtsø
  Jes Holtsø
  Jes Holtsø is a Danish actor most notable for his role as Kjeld's son Børge in the Olsen Gang films. The reason that he was chosen to play Børge was actually his thick glasses, which became his characteristic...
  
   (William Olsen)
• Paul Hagen
  Paul Hagen
  Paul Hagen was a Danish film actor. He appeared in over 100 films between 1952 and 1999.He was born in Denmark and died in Langø, Denmark.-Filmography:*Far betaler - 1946*Avismanden - 1952...
  
   (Mr. Clausen)
• Lis Løwert
  Lis Løwert
  Lis Løwert was a Danish film actress. She appeared in 23 films between 1938 and 1971. She was best known for her parts in two TV series: Mrs. Clausen in Huset på Christianshavn and Violet Vinter in Matador. Matador has been heralded as one of the best in Danish television. It originally aired...
  
   (Mrs. Clausen)
• Finn Storgaard (Tue)
• Kirsten Hansen-Møller (Rikke)
• Willy Rathnov
  Willy Rathnov
  Willy Rathnov was a Danish film actor. He appeared in 32 films between 1960 and 1988.He was born in Roskilde, Denmark and died in Denmark.-Selected filmography:* Onkel Joakims hemmelighed...
  
   (Egon Hansen)
• Kirsten Walther (Karla Hansen)
• Flemming Nielsen
  Flemming Nielsen
  Flemming Gert Nielsen, known simply as Flemming Nielsen, is a Danish former association football player in the midfielder position, who won a silver medal with the Denmark national football team at the 1960 Summer Olympics...
  
   (Bimmer)
• Ove Sprogøe
  Ove Sprogøe
  Ove Wendelboe Sprogøe Petersen was a Danish actor. Born in Odense, his parents were Arthur and Inger Sprogøe. He married Eva Rasmussen in 1945, with whom he had three children. One of these is actor Henning Sprogøe....
  
   (Larsen)
• Arthur Jensen (actor)
  Arthur Jensen (actor)
  Arthur Jensen was a Danish actor whose career lasted for almost 60 years. He made his début on stage at the Royal Danish Theatre in 1923, and he had his big screen début in the silent film Pas på pigerne in 1930....
  
   (Arnold Hannibal Meyer)
• Bodil Udsen
  Bodil Udsen
  Bodil Udsen was a Danish actress.She was a student at the Rysensteen Gymnasium in Copenhagen in 1944 and entered film in 1955...
  
  (Emma)

External links

• DR-Bonanza - Huset på Christianshavn episode 1-84 Watch Huset på Christianshavn
• German site about Huset på Christianshavn