Niels Arestrup
Highest Rated: 100% Meeting Venus (1991)
Lowest Rated: 34% By The Sea (2015)
Birthday: Feb 8, 1949
Birthplace: Not Available
European screen performer Niels Arestrup grew up in a middle-class family of Danish extraction, and gravitated toward acting as a young man, studying under the aegis of legendary drama instructor Tania Balachova. He took his initial foray into acting on-stage, but quickly moved into filmed work as well, in such noteworthy big-screen productions as Chantal Akerman's Je Tu Il Elle (1974), Alain Resnais' Stavisky (1974), and Jeanne Moreau's Lumière (1976). Arestrup's heavy involvement in theater continued over the following several decades, yet he remained extremely prolific on film, reaching memorable high points with leads in Marco Ferreri's unusual, provocative erotic drama The Future Is Woman (1984) and István Szabó's Karin Anderson biopic Meeting Venus (1991). In 2007, Arestrup achieved some international crossover success with his supporting contribution to Julian Schnabel's acclaimed Jean-Dominique Bauby biopic The Diving Bell and the Butterfly.
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Highest Rated Movies
Filmography
Movies
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| No Score Yet | Van Gogh - Ved evighedens port | Madman | — | 2018 |
| 80% | At Eternity's Gate | Madman | — | 2018 |
| 50% | Return to Montauk | Actor | — | 2017 |
| 94% | See You Up There (Au revoir là-haut) | Actor | — | 2017 |
| 34% | By The Sea | Bar Keeper | $0.4M | 2015 |
| 94% | Diplomacy | Actor | — | 2014 |
| 62% | The French Minister | Claude Maupas | — | 2014 |
| No Score Yet | La dérobade (Memoirs of a French Whore) | Actor | — | 2014 |
| No Score Yet | La dune (The Dune) | Actor | — | 2014 |
| No Score Yet | 96 Heures | Actor | — | 2014 |
| 89% | You Will Be My Son | Paul de Marseul | — | 2013 |
| 93% | Our Children | André Pinget | $6K | 2013 |
| 86% | The Big Picture | Bartholomé | $0.2M | 2012 |
| No Score Yet | Le grand soir (The Big Night) | Actor | — | 2012 |
| No Score Yet | Our Children | Docteur Pinget | — | 2012 |
| No Score Yet | Citizen Langlois | Actor | — | 2012 |
| No Score Yet | Small World (Je n'ai rien oublié) | Thomas Senn | — | 2012 |
| 74% | War Horse | Grandfather | $79.9M | 2011 |
| 72% | Sarah's Key | Jules Dufaure | $7.7M | 2011 |
| 86% | Farewell (L'affaire Farewell) | Vallier | $0.4M | 2010 |
| 97% | A Prophet (Un prophete) | César Luciani | $1.6M | 2010 |
| 94% | The Diving Bell and the Butterfly | Roussin | $5.9M | 2007 |
| No Score Yet | The Candidate (Le Candidat) | Actor Director | — | 2007 |
| No Score Yet | Antonin's Stories (Les Fragments d'Antonin) | Actor | — | 2006 |
| 86% | De Battre mon Coeur s'est Arrêté (The Beat That My Heart Skipped) | Robert Seyr | $0.8M | 2005 |
| No Score Yet | Une affaire privée (A Private Affair) | Rachel's Father | — | 2002 |
| No Score Yet | Speak to Me of Love | Richard | — | 2002 |
| 100% | Meeting Venus | Zoltan Szanto | — | 1991 |
| No Score Yet | Sincerely Charlotte | Mathieu | — | 1986 |
| No Score Yet | Loups entre eux, Les (Among Wolves) | Mike | — | 1985 |
| No Score Yet | Il Futuro è Donna (The Future Is Woman) | Gordon | — | 1984 |
| No Score Yet | La Femme Flic | Dominique Allier | — | 1980 |
| No Score Yet | La chanson de Roland (The Song of Roland) | Dealer | — | 1978 |
| No Score Yet | Les Apprentis-sorciers (The Sorceror's Apprentice) | Danton | — | 1977 |
| No Score Yet | Lumiere | Nano | — | 1976 |
| 100% | I, You, He, She (Je, Tu, Il, Elle) | Actor | — | 1975 |
| No Score Yet | Papa lumière | Actor | — |
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Série noire 1984-1988 |
QUOTES FROM Niels Arestrup CHARACTERS
Grandfather says: Maybe there are different ways to be brave. Did you know the French have the best carrier pigeons? And this could be the difference in the war - our messages getting through.
Emilie says: I don't want to hear about the birds.
Grandfather says: They are released at the front and told to go home - this is all they know. But to get there they must fly over war. Can you imagine such a thing? Here you are flying over so much pain and terror - and you know you can never look down. You have to look forward or you'll never get home. I ask you - what could be braver than that?
Grandfather says: Maybe there are different ways to be brave. Did you know the French have the best carrier pigeons? And this could be the difference in the war. Our messages getting through. There are released from the front and told to go home. This is all they know. But to get there they must fly over a war. It's like... you are flying over so much pain and terror... and you know you can never look down. You have to look forward, or you'll never get home. I ask you, what could be braver than that?
Roussin says: Hold fast to the human inside of you, and you'll survive.
Grandfather says: "Emile. Her name was Emile."
Grandfather says: Emilie. Her name was Emilie.
Grandfather says: Can you imagine flying over a war and you know you can never look down? You have to look forward, or you'll never get home. What could be braver than that?