mt-title

Maybe the best thing to come out of Scandinavia during the hippie years was, in fact, the story of a radical libertarian and a hedonist capitalist. Their friendship, forged by being outsiders in a conformist country, took them through years of adulation and success, with slight detours into the welcoming arms of vilification and imprisonment. A joyride through taxation, mass travel, hookers and politics. Not feeling too constrained by historical facts, director Christoffer Boe's story of Simon Spies and Mogens Glistrup covers just a few of their decades in a tale of warmth and humour, defiance and eccentricity.

Keywords

  • Based on a True Story
  • Biopics
  • Nordic Films

Actors

  • Nicolas Bro
  • Ole Dupont
  • Johan Philip Asbæk

Director

  • Christoffer Boe

Biography, Thriller


1h 50min


-16

DA


NL

FR

Denmark
2013
The friendship between Mogens Glistrup and Simon Spies keeps Spies Travels thriving, until a tax scandal threatens everything

The friendship between Mogens Glistrup and Simon Spies keeps Spies Travels thriving, until a tax scandal threatens everything


Maybe the best thing to come out of Scandinavia during the hippie years was, in fact, the story of a radical libertarian and a hedonist capitalist. Their friendship, forged by being outsiders in a conformist country, took them through years of adulation and success, with slight detours into the welcoming arms of vilification and imprisonment. A joyride through taxation, mass travel, hookers and politics. Not feeling too constrained by historical facts, director Christoffer Boe's story of Simon Spies and Mogens Glistrup covers just a few of their decades in a tale of warmth and humour, defiance and eccentricity.

Cast & Crew