Sex, Drugs & Taxation

Sex, Drugs & Taxation

Film Europe+
120 minutes
2013
Denmark Biography / Drama

Two eccentric individuals changed ‘Old School’ manners of Danish society. Sex, Drugs & Taxation deals with the spectacular historical friendship between two of the most notorious and provocative figures of modern Danish history: the radical right-wing lawyer-turned-politician, Mogens Glistrup, and the “travel king”, millionaire, womanizer and public provocateur, Simon Spies. Story inspired by true events describes still unknown facts – how these two infamous Danish icons became what they did and how they used each other as support as well as opponents in their respective life missions. They show us how life can be lived to the fullest, how to battle for ideas and for new vision of society. Half of Denmark fell in love with them while the other half hated them. They were like nothing the country had ever seen before.

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2013
Denmark Biography / Drama

Two eccentric individuals changed ‘Old School’ manners of Danish society.

Sex, Drugs & Taxation deals with the spectacular historical friendship between two of the most notorious and provocative figures of modern Danish history: the radical right-wing lawyer-turned-politician, Mogens Glistrup, and the “travel king”, millionaire, womanizer and public provocateur, Simon Spies. Story inspired by true events describes still unknown facts – how these two infamous Danish icons became what they did and how they used each other as support as well as opponents in their respective life missions. They show us how life can be lived to the fullest, how to battle for ideas and for new vision of society. Half of Denmark fell in love with them while the other half hated them. They were like nothing the country had ever seen before.

Creators

Christoffer Boe, Christoffer Boe, Simon Pasternak, Jonas Struck