A sort of forerunner to Hollywood's Boogie Nights (1997), this Danish melodrama is set in the world of strip clubs. A medical student (Frits Helmuth) earns money for tuition working in a burlesque joint. He falls for one of the girls (Malene Schwarz), but she is also involved with a movie director (John Price). The director and Helmuth get into a philosophical debate about love and Darwinism, and the film ends with a duel (the film's title). Duellen was met with mostly incomprehension when it premiered and is no more lucid when viewed today. The striptease scene featuring full-frontal nudity is tame by modern standards.
Knud Leif Thomsen
Director
Frits Helmuth
John Price
Axel Strøbye
Hans Kurt
Buster Larsen
Vera Gebuhr
Albert Watson
Ulla Darni
Elith Pio
Kisses71%
La joven69%
Pimp62%
Goodbye June65%
Hands of Stone66%
Cardboard Boxer63%
Arven65%
Three Christs66%
The Poker House62%
Bastard Out of Carolina71%
The Unforgivable74%
Pigen med nålen75%
El Chicano66%
Careful What You Wish For61%
Charm City Kings78%
Beast61%
Farming62%
Salomé62%
Strange Weather58%
From Straight A's to XXX59%
