Adam's Apples (2005)

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As part of our CUFF 2023 Retrospective, see ADAM'S APPLES (2005) as a Double Feature with THE GREEN BUTCHERS (2003), including a live-zoom Q&A with Director Anders Thomas Jensen after the first film (THE GREEN BUTCHERS). 

From CUFF alumnus Anders Thomas Jensen (MEN & CHICKEN, RIDERS OF JUSTICE) and starring his frequent collaborator Mads Mikkelsen, this 2005 comedy is a modern religious fable about belief and the struggle between good and evil. Adam, a neo-Nazi, is sent on community service to a vicarage. Here, the minister Ivan gives Adam the task of baking an apple pie with the apples from the tree growing in front of the church. Meanwhile birds, worms and lightning attack the apples. Ivan believes it is the Devil testing them. Adam believes it is God, because perhaps evil doesn't exist at all.

OFFICIAL SELECTION
Toronto International Film Festival 2005
Reykjavik International Film Festival 2005
Seattle International Film Festival 2006
Sydney International Film Festival 2006
Calgary Underground Film Festival 2006

DIRECTOR'S BIO
Anders Thomas Jensen is a screenwriter and director from Denmark. In high school he met Tomas Villum Jensen and together they made the short ERNST & THE LIGHT (1996), which was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Short Film, Live Action. Jensen’s second short film, WOLFGANG (1997) was also nominated, and in 1999, he won the Academy Award with ELECTION NIGHT. In 2000 he made his first feature film, FLICKERING LIGHTS, followed by THE GREEN BUTCHERS (2003). After ADAM’S APPLES (2005), he took a 10-year break from directing, before returning with MEN & CHICKEN (2015), and then RIDERS OF JUSTICE (2020). Jensen often collaborates with the actors Mads Mikkelsen and Nikolaj Lie Kaas.