# Christmas on Vesterbro (2003)

> A hot dog vendor's sabotaged cart and a string of debts send a Copenhagen street hustler into an absurd Christmas scramble.

Canonical page: https://ember.film/tv/41199

## Facts

- Seasons: 1
- Episodes: 24
- Episode runtime: 14 min
- Status: Ended
- Genres: comedy
- Created by: Anders Matthesen, Thomas Hartmann
- Network: DR2
- Cast: Anders Matthesen, Sune Svanekier
- TMDB rating: 8.1/10
- IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0372073/

## Ember's analysis

- Pacing: brisk
- Intensity: mild
- Complexity: simple
- Violence: mild
- Tone: absurd, deadpan, scruffy, irreverent, wistful, comic

## Synopsis

Christmas on Vesterbro (2003) is a Danish comedy series created by Anders Matthesen and Thomas Hartmann for DR2. Anders Matthesen stars as Stewart Stardust, a hot dog vendor whose cart engine has been sabotaged just as Christmas arrives. Across a single season of twenty-four short episodes, each roughly fourteen minutes long, his problems pile up: a newly paroled ex-convict named Danny needs proof of provision or he returns to prison, and the landlady Greta threatens to throw him onto the street over unpaid rent. Into this comes Kefir, an offer of free repairs that seems too good to be true, and the question of what he really wants from a sausage van parked in front of Christiansborg. Matthesen also plays most of the supporting roles himself, including Danny, Greta, Arne the social worker and Igor, which gives the show a self-contained, theatrical feel. The tone is absurd, deadpan and scruffy, with escalating improvised-feeling schemes built from ordinary hardship. Fans of Klovn, Trailer Park Boys and quirky Scandinavian sketch comedy will find resonance in its shabby urban milieu and its refusal to take its crises seriously.

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