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The Bench

He has a life, he isn't proud of, and a past that he doesn't want to remember.

2000 1 hour 29 minutes
73/100

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Kaj is a stubborn man with a great deal of pride. The former chef lives in a council flat. He has wasted his life and is now on a council job training scheme for the long-term unemployed, where he refuses to let the foreman of the activation project boss him about. When Kaj's daughter, with whom he has not been in touch for nineteen years, moves into the same council estate on the run from her violent husband, a change comes over Kaj. His initial instinct is to avoid her, but by chance he ends up helping to look after Jonas, her six-year-old son. For the first time for years Kaj need not survive on his own devices. Now he has responsibilities and a family of his own.

Released

26th August 2000

26 years ago

Runtime

1 hour 29 minutes

Finishes at 5:24am

Ratings and awards

11 wins & 10 nominations

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    7.5/10

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    70%

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    73%

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Directed by

Per Fly

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Written by

Per Fly, Kim Leona

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