Itsi Bitsi

Itsi Bitsi

107 mins | Drama | Feb. 19, 2015

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.

Itsi Bitsi

107 mins | Drama | Feb. 19, 2015

Itsi Bitsi
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.
IMDb rating 6.5
Producers Nimbus Film
Original title Steppeulven
Directors Ole Christian Madsen
Writers Bo Hr. Hansen, Ole Christian Madsen

Cast

Ola Rapace

as Vincent

Thure Lindhardt

as Eik's Father

Julia Ragnarsson

as Majbritt

Anette Støvelbæk

as Eik's Mother

Marie Tourell Søderberg

as Iben Nagel Rasmussen

Christian Gade Bjerrum

as Christian Arnø

Joachim Fjelstrup

as Eik Skaløe

Caspar Phillipson

as Halfdan Rasmussen

Johannes Nymark

as Henrik

Ana Marija Percaić

as Beatnik girl

Jakob Randrup

as Stig Møller

Morten Hembo

as Carsten

Sara Viktoria

as Eik's sister

Sidsel Siem Koch

as Anita

Louise Herbert

as Ester Nagel

Martin Greis-Rosenthal

as Journalist

Paw Henriksen

as Producer

Kasper Leisner

as Coroner

Mario Petreković

as Director Odin Teatret