Max Pinlig

Max Pinlig
Directed by	Lotte Svendsen [da; fa]
Screenplay by	Tommy Bredsted Mette Horn Lotte Svendsen
Produced by	Per Holst
Production company	Asta Film ApS[1]
Release date	5 December 2008 (2008-12-05)
Running time	100 minutes[2]
Country	Denmark
Language	Danish

Max Pinlig (Danish for Max Embarrassing)[3] is a 2008 Danish film directed by Lotte Svendsen [da; fa] from a screenplay by Tommy Bredsted, Mette Horn and Lotte Svendsen, based on the Danish children's tv series Max that aired on DR1 from 2007 to 2008.[4][5] It won the Robert Award for Best Children's Film at the 26th Robert Awards.[6]

Premise

Max has a crush on school classmate Ofelia, but he is too shy to tell her. Meanwhile, he becomes more popular with the cool kids at his school but has to stop hanging out with his old friends Esther and Hassan; the situation gets worse when Max's embarrassing mother intervenes.[4]

Cast

• Samuel Heller-Seiffert [da] as Max
• Mette Agnete Horn [af; da; ko] as Max's mother
• Lars Bom as Steen Cold
• Louise Mieritz as Ulla
• Rasmus Bjerg as Carlo
• Anna Agafia Svideniouk Egholm [af; da] as Esther
• Faysal Mobahritz [af; da] as Hassan
• Ophelia Eriksen as Ofelia
• Signe Wenneberg as Signe Cold
• Anders Hove as Mogens
• Rasmus Berg Jensen as Nicklas
• Michelle Bjørn-Andersen [af; da; sv] as Marianne
• William Horn as William
• Sarah Muldgaard Enoch as Alma
• Lisa Littauer as Bibi
• Caroline Henderson as Ofelias tante

Release

The film was released in Danish theatres on 5 December 2008 and sold a total of 163,473 tickets.[7]

Accolades

Max Pinlig won the Robert Award for Best Children's Film at the 26th Robert Awards.[6] At the 62nd Bodil Awards, Mette Agnete Horn was nominated for Best Actress in a Leading Role, but lost to Lene Maria Christensen in Terribly Happy.[8]

Sequels

Subsequently, the film received two sequels; Max Pinlig 2: sidste skrig in 2011[9] and Max Pinlig 3 på Roskilde [da] in 2012.[10]

References

1. Max Pinlig. (in Danish). Danish Film Institute (DFI). Retrieved 9 June 2021.
2. Max Pinlig at Medierådet – Medierådet for børn og unge. (in Danish). Retrieved 9 June 2021.
3. Max Embarrassing (Max Pinlig) at Cineuropa – the best of European cinema. Retrieved 9 June 2021.
4. Max sjov underholdning, 29 December 2012. (in Danish). Kristeligt Dagblad. Retrieved 9 June 2021.
5. Iversen, Ebbe (4 December 2008) Åh, mor er bare den værste i verden. (in Danish). Berlingske. Retrieved 9 June 2021.
6. Robert-vindere 2009. (in Danish). Danish Film Institute (DFI). Retrieved 9 June 2021.
7. BILLETSALG DANSKE FILM 2009 / ADMISSIONS 2009. (in Danish). Danish Film Institute. Archived from the original on 3 March 2011. Retrieved 9 June 2021.
8. Bodil-nomineringer 2009. (in Danish). Danish Film Institute (DFI). Retrieved 9 June 2021.
9. "Max Embarrassing 2". cine-regio. Retrieved 9 June 2021.
10. Max Pinlig 3 – på Roskilde. (in Danish). Filmstriben. Retrieved 9 June 2021.

External links

• Max Pinlig at IMDb
• Max Pinlig at the Danish Film Database (in Danish)