Itsi Bitsi (2015)

Name: Itsi Bitsi
Director: Ole Christian Madsen
Genre: Drama
Released: 2015-02-19
Duration: 1 h 47 min
Cast: Ola Rapace, Thure Lindhardt, Julia Ragnarsson, Anette Støvelbæk

Drama

Director: Ole Christian Madsen

Cast: Ola Rapace, Thure Lindhardt, Julia Ragnarsson, Anette Støvelbæk

Runtime107 min

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1962 is the year when an entire generation lives life as though it was their last day. Young activist Eik Skaløe has his entire life turned upside down when he falls head over heels in love with the beautiful peace activist Iben Nagel Rasmussen, and she falls in love with him. But Iben is a child of the times, and freely accepts the order of the day: free love and sex. She renounces personal right of ownership and will not settle for one man when she can have several. In typically romantic fashion, he begins a struggle to win all of her love. As a poet, writer and singer he constantly confesses his love to her. But Eik must accept defeat, and in 1968 he travels without his beloved Itsi Bitsi to Nepal, the Land of Dreams in the East. A journey from which he will never return.

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Directed by Ole Christian Madsen, this 2015 drama Itsi Bitsi offers a poignant exploration of the free-spirited counterculture of 1960s Denmark, driven by a standout performance from lead actor Ola Rapace as a young activist struggling to reconcile his romantic ideals with the realities of free love.

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Itsi Bitsi, also known as Steppeulven, is a 2014 Danish drama film directed by Ole Christian Madsen. It is a biopic of the band Steppeulvene. It was screened in the Contemporary World Cinema section at the 2014 Toronto International Film Festival.