Matador (TV series)

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Matador
Genre	Drama series
Running time	between 0:41 and 1:26 per episode
Creator(s)	Lise Nørgaard (idea) Erik Balling (director)
Starring	Jørgen Buckhøj Ghita Nørby Holger Juul Hansen Malene Schwartz Buster Larsen
Country of origin	Denmark
Original channel	Danmarks Radio
Original run	November 11, 1978–January 2, 1982
No. of episodes	24

Matador is a Danish TV series produced between 1978 and 1981. It is named after the Danish version of the board game Monopoly.

Directed by Erik Balling and written by Lise Nørgaard along with Karen Smith, Jens Louis Petersen and Paul Hammerich, the series is one of the most well-known and popular examples of Danish television, not least because of its accurate portrayal of Denmark in the 1930s and during Nazi Germany's occupation of Denmark pin World War II. The distinctive theme tune of the series was composed by Bent Fabricius-Bjerre.

The series is set in the fictional Danish town of Korsbæk between 1929 and 1947. The story follows the life of various characters in the town, but is primarily focused around the struggle between the families of - respectively - businessman Mads (Andersen-)Skjern; who arrives in the town in 1929, and banker Hans Christian Varnæs, one of the town's most prominent citizens.

Matador originally aired on DR between November 1978 and January 1982, but has been repeated in 1984-85, 1989-90, 1997-98 and 2006-07. Additionally, the series has been released on VHS, and in 2001 on DVD. The DVD edition surpassed 1 million sold copies in 2005 [1] (in a country of 5.3 million people).

The series has been broadcast in more than 20 countries.[2]

[edit] List of Matador episodes

• 1. "Den rejsende" (1978)
• 2. "Genboen" (1978)
• 3. "Skiftedag" (1978)
• 4. "Skyggetanten" (1978)
• 5. "Den enes død" (1978)
• 6. "Opmarch" (1978)
• 7. "Fødselsdagen" (1979)
• 8. "Komme fremmede" (1979)
• 9. "Hen til kommoden" (1979)
• 10. "I disse tider" (1979)
• 11. "I klemme" (1979)
• 12. "I lyst og nød" (1979)
• 13. "Et nyt liv" (1980)
• 14. "Brikkerne" (1980)
• 15. "At tænke og tro" (1980)
• 16. "Lauras store dag" (1980)
• 17. "De voksnes rækker" (1980)
• 18. "Hr. Stein" (1980)
• 19. "Handel og vandel" (1981)
• 20. "Den 11. time" (1981)
• 21. "Vi vil fred her til lands" (1981)
• 22. "Det går jo godt" (1981)
• 23. "Mellem brødre" (1981)
• 24. "New Look" (1981)

[edit] List of characters

• Mads Andersen-Skjern — Jørgen Buckhøj
• Ingeborg Skjern — Ghita Nørby
• Kristen Andersen-Skjern — Jesper Langberg
• Hans Christian Varnæs — Holger Juul Hansen
• Maude Varnæs — Malene Schwartz
• Jørgen Varnæs — Bent Mejding
• Elisabeth Friis — Helle Virkner
• Oluf Larsen — Buster Larsen
• Kathrine Larsen — Lily Broberg
• Mrs. Fernando Møhge — Karen Berg
• Misse Møhge — Karin Nellemose
• Louis Hansen, MD — Ove Sprogøe
• Fede — Benny Hansen
• Røde — Kurt Ravn
• Waiter Boldt — Per Pallesen
• Agnes Jensen — Kirsten Olesen
• Laura Sørensen — Elin Reimar
• Daniel Skjern — Jacob Dalgård (child), Niels Martin Carlsen (adult)
• Ellen Skjern — Helle Nielsen (child), Benedikte Dahl (adult)
• Erik Skjern — Jens Christian Milbart
• Ulrik Varnæs — Søren Bruun (child), Jens Arentzen (adult)
• Helle Varnæs — Ditte Maria Norup
• Regitze Varnæs — Camilla Hammerich
• Iben Skjold-Hansen — Ulla Henningsen
• Viggo Skjold-Hansen — Axel Strøbye
• Musse Skjold-Hansen — Birthe Backhausen
• Colonel Hackel — Bjørn Watt Boolsen
• Vicki Hackel — Sonja Oppenhagen
• Teacher Andersen — Helge Kjærulff-Schmidt
• Gitte Graae — Susse Wold
• Albert Arnesen — Preben Mahrt
• Arnold Vinther — Esper Hagen
• Mr. Schwann — Arthur Jensen
• Mr. Stein — John Hahn-Petersen
• Inger Jørgensen — Vera Gebuhr
• Consul Holm — Karl Stegger
• Mrs. Consul Holm — Else Marie Juul Hansen
• Herbert Schmidt — Paul Hüttel
• Anna Skjern — Kirsten Rolffes
• Marie Hansen (Fede's wife) — Kirsten Hansen-Møller
• Oscar Andersen — Nis Bank-Mikkelsen
• Minna Varnæs — Ellen Winther Lembourn
• Violet Vinther — Lis Løwert
• Baron von Rydtger — Bent Rothe
• Baroness von Rydtger — Birgitte Federspiel
• Ulla Jacobsen — Karen-Lise Mynster
• Miss Hollenberg — Christiane Rohde
• Esther — Birgitte Bruun
• Godtfred Lund — Hardy Rafn
• Lily Lund — Tove Maës
• Bricklayer Jessen — Poul Reichhardt
• Mrs. Bricklayer Jessen — Bodil Udsen
• Ernst Nyeborg — Morten Grunwald
• Gustav Friis — Finn Storgaard
• Waiter at Postgaarden — Holger Perfort
• Gudrun — Anne Jensen
• Miss Mikkelsen — Hanne Løye

[edit] External links

• Matador at the Internet Movie Database
• Matador Online (in Danish) with episode guide, character bios and more