The Bench
2000 · 89 MIN · IMDB 7.5 · 4,637 VOTES · DIR. Per Fly
Overview
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.
Dialogue Timeline — 637 lines
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00:00:50 - This is not a playground, huh? - Fuck you, you drunk fool!
00:04:19 Okay. Bye. It was Jens.
00:07:43 Shall we... Then it's today.
00:10:23 - Relax. - Yes, yes. I'm relaxed.
00:13:53 then I'm coming home, right?
00:16:48 Connie goes completely bananas, man. She'll freak out, Kaj.
00:22:22 Kaj, it's 500 kroner!
00:25:14 - Is he sleeping? - Yes.
00:27:36 - No, he doesn't. Did you? - No.
00:30:13 - What the hell is wrong, Kaj? - Get my pills.
00:36:29 but now I can provide for me and Jonas.
00:39:32 - Liv... - I forgot the milk.
00:42:27 You have never grasped a shit! You are so fucking cold-assed!
00:45:08 Wouldn't you like to sit down? I have something you must see.
00:47:15 Stig, man. Do something.
00:50:41 - the physical and psychic side of the part itself, -
00:55:42 on the snails tiny roof.
01:02:32 Turn him in and move back to Aarhus.
01:05:21 - Connie, give me 100 kroner. - Why?
01:07:56 so he is surely the last one you are going to. I that understood?
01:13:20 I found this.
01:17:24 Stig. I need a place to stay with Jonas for some days.
01:21:14 Stay right there.
01:24:53 English translation by Traemanden