In China They Eat Dogs (1999), is a Danish action comedy film directed by Lasse Spang Olsen

Lasse Spang Olsen

Lasse Spang Olsen is a Danish filmmaker.Apart from his many directorial and stunt coordinator credits, Olsen worked as a coordinator of extras on more than 300 hundred films over the course two decades.-External links:...

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The main roles are played by Kim Bodnia

Kim Bodnia

-Movie career:He has appeared in several of the successful Danish films from the 1990s and 2000s, e.g. Nattevagten , Pusher, and Bleeder, the latter two directed by Nicolas Winding Refn, and the two Lasse Spang Olsen films In China They Eat Dogs, Old Men in New Cars and Terribly Happy.Bodnia has...

 (Harald) and Dejan Čukić

Dejan Cukic

Dejan Cukić is a Serbian rock musician, journalist and writer.During the late 1970s and early 1980s, Cukić was the frontman of the New Wave band Bulevar, releasing two albums with the band. After Bulevar disbanded in 1982, he retired from music...

(Arvid). Olsen received the Audience Award at Cinénygma - Luxembourg International Film Festival and a Jury Prize at the Montreal Comedy Festival.

Synopsis

Arvid, a bank teller, is dumped by his girlfriend for being too boring and dull. Hoping to put some excitement in his life, Arvid helps stop a robbery at the bank. The wife of the would-be bank robber tracks Arvid down and tells him her husband was robbing the bank only so he could pay for medical treatments so they could have a child. The title is a reference to an axiom Arvid's brother tells him: "In China, they eat dogs"; which makes him realize that there is no such thing as moral absolutism, and that whether something is right or wrong depends on the situation. Because of his revelation, he comes to sympathize with the bank robber. Imagining he can help the couple and prove himself to be a dangerous outlaw all at once, Arvid plots a robbery of his own bank with the help of his brother Harald and some fellow wannabe criminals.