Morten Bruus Filmography

Occupation:: Cinematographer

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Leila

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Melania Douteys, Arnaud Binard, Malika el-Omar, Azzedine Bouayad, Michel Bouquet

Synopsis: When Leila (Melanie Doutey), a beautiful 16-year-old Indian girl living in Marrakesh, falls in love with Danish tourist Nils (Arnaud Binard), she is not prepared for the torrent of family strife it results in. Leila's brother and father are so enraged by this cultural infraction that they consider Read More

2002
Flash of a Dream

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Peter Stormare

2002
The War Within: A Portrait of Virginia Woolf

Crew: Cinematographer

Synopsis: Narrated by Ian Redford, this award-winning documentary profiles the modernist British author, essayist, and critic Virginia Woolf, whose best-known works include the novels Mrs. Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, and Orlando: a Biography, as well as the essay A Room of One's Own. The program features Read More

1995
All Things Fair

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Johan Widerberg, Marika Lagercrantz, Karin Huldt, Björn Kjellman

Synopsis: A young man growing up at a difficult time enters into a relationship that only makes his life more complicated in this acclaimed coming-of-age drama. Stig (Johan Widerberg) is a 15-year-old boy growing up in Malmo, Sweden, in 1942. While WWII rages in Europe, Sweden remains politically neutral Read More

1995
17 Op

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Torben Jensen, Flemming "Bamse" Jorgensen

Synopsis: Street waif Sally (Jane Eggertsen) hides out on the seventeenth floor of a modern Danish tenement, hence the film's title. She almost manages to make a living recycling various trash items. In this way, she avoids the dangers of street life. Sally comes into contact with an equally streetwise Read More

1989
Tarzan Mama-Mia

Crew: Cinematographer, Screenplay Consultant

Actors: Michael Falch, Leif Sylvester Petersen, Erik Clausen

Synopsis: Eleven-year old Rikke (Christina Haagensen) lives alone with her father, whose only interest in life seems to be the soccer matches which appear on his television. Not surprisingly, Rikke is somewhat bored. She enters a contest put on by a cereal company which has as its grand prize a horse. Since Read More

1989
Rami Og Julie

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Sofie Gråbøl, Saleh Malek, Steen Birger Jorgensen, Jamal El Khatib, Kjeld Lofting

Synopsis: This modern update of Romeo And Juliet finds two young lovers torn between family loyalty and love in Copenhagen. Rami is a Palestinian operative who falls for Julie, a lonely woman who works at a service station. Lines from Shakespeare are recited by a laundromat manager who serves as a one-man Read More

1988
Manden I Maanen

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Peter Thiel, Catherine Poul Jupont, Christina Bengtsson, Kim Jansson, Yavuzer Cetinkaya

Synopsis: This expressionistic non-narrative film is about the psychological and emotional trials of a man just released from prison after 16 years. Johannes (Peter Thiel) killed his wife in a fit of misguided passion many years ago, and is now middle-aged and trying to adjust to life on the outside. Every Read More

1986
Rocking Silver

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Erik Peterson, Erik Clausen, Eva Madsen

Synopsis: In this film with a surprisingly crude treatment of humanitarian causes, the members of a former rock group decide to get together one more time to pay tribute to a dead friend and try to revive some of the magic they had 20 years earlier. When the group's venal manager attempts to use them to Read More

1984
Felix

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Tove Maës, Poul Bundgaard, Erik Clausen, Leif Sylvester Petersen, Gerda Madsen

Synopsis: Tired of being left alone by her children who are too caught up in their own lives to pay her much attention, Mrs. Maage (Tove Maes) decides to perk up her isolated existence by offering a 100,000-kroner award (money she does not have) for Felix, her lost Persian cat (she has never owned a cat). Read More

1982
Drenge

Crew: Cinematographer

Synopsis: This non-narrative film unveils three episodes in the psychosexual life of a neurotic man, beginning with a trip he took to the countryside over the holidays as a small boy, to visit a cousin. Later, he is shown as a high-school boy (Mads Ole Erhadsen). Finally, he is shown as a young man, busily Read More

1977
Måske Ku' Vi

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Ole Ernst

Synopsis: During a bank holdup, a teenaged boy and girl (Karl Wagner and Marianne Svendsen) are taken hostage by the robbers. After a very pleasant captivity, during which they play Monopoly with their captors, they escape into the countryside. The two consummate their first love and have a number of Read More

1976