The Green Butchers
Original title: De grønne slagtere
“Pick your cut!”
2003 · 1 h 40 min
Anders Thomas JensenCast
Nikolaj Lie Kaas 
Mads Mikkelsen 
Line Kruse 
Ole Thestrup 
Bodil Jørgensen Aksel Erhardtsen
Plot
Two butchers in a small Danish town start their own shop, and a mishap leads to a very unusual new product.
Sinekatalog’s take
Anders Thomas Jensen's black comedy is macabre, funny and original, with a typically Danish bleakness.Sinekatalog’s own editorial review – not a user or critic quote.
Ratings
IMDb: 7.2 / 10 (28,130 votes)
IMDb rating and vote count from the IMDb ratings dataset (October 2026). Scores change over time.
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