Russian Pizza Blues

Mosaic of fates that in a subtle cheer cross each other during a dusk night in a poetic and picturesque Copenhagen.

Wikke and Rasmussens first - and best - full featured movie. The understated humor, the mysterious story that slowly unfolds, the feel-good of the "Steen and Steen" (Mikael and Steen) with a touch of melancholy makes this the best Wikke and Rasmussen movie ever produced and thereby one of the all-time best danish movies.

It is Jim Jarmusch's "One Night on Earth" with a slight touch of "Love actually" without the clichées. It is made in an understated Danish context with a laid back humor that is typical for Copenhagen and Wikke and Rasmussen in particular. It is all about dreams against real life's inconveniences - with the dreams winning.

Wikke and Rasmussen stubbornly claim that they are not cult, but mainstream. Perhaps that is true, but this movie is definitely cult. Bringing in the danish nuclear physicist, Holger Bech Nielsen, as television background noise is a stroke of genius and enough to make it cult.

The new Directors cut version is now (2020) available on Blu Ray and absolutely worth investing your hard earned dimes in.

Sadly the DR television series based on the same movie was re-cut to disaster. I suggest that you do not even watch that version.