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It is well almost a public secret that the popular Danish comedian Dirch Passer, who fell on the stage in the glass hall theatre in Tivoli the 3. september 1980, and shortly after was pronounced dead at Copenhagen Municipality, 54 years old, burned his candle at both ends. If nothing else, it was very evident in Martin Zandvliets excellent feature film ‘Dirch’ from 2011, where Nikolaj Lie Kaas delivered a pragtpræstation as the story Fits.
So Ole Junckers current documentary ‘The other Dirch’ bringing, as such, is not something new to the arena. But therefore it may well be worth seeing anyway. And it is the definitely also.
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the People behind the mention even Asif Kaspadis gripping ‘Amy’ from 2015 the singer Amy Winehouses short and predictable downfall as a source of inspiration, and the method is also the same.
You have (quite elegant) cut a whole pile of papers together on the face, while the story in audio narrated by various eyewitnesses, mainly the colleagues of Ulf Pilgaard, Jytte Abildstrøm, Daimi, Sonja Oppenhagen, the daughter Dorte Passer and his sister the March Fit, as well as ex-boyfriend Judy Gringer.
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It is the classic tale of a man who could not say no. Neither when he was at work (which he was almost constantly), or when he had free. It stood for periods of up to five performances a day, and more than 100 films (most of them pretty bad), it was also. Plus it solve.
And when he was not on the stage or in front of the camera, so did he drink. Vehemently. The first year in close cooperation with the partner Kjeld Petersen, who died of drink in 1962, only 41 years old. A loss, as Dirch never really got over, when Kjeld was perhaps only real confidential friend.
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Why did Dirch so the kamikaze-like lifestyle? There is probably no unique explanation, but the manic zeal is due much along the way, that he simply was addicted to be in – the audience’s laughter was with Ulf Pilgaards words, is simply a ‘drug’ for him.
the Persona ‘Dirch Passer’ was pretty much a shield, and who hid behind, there was never really someone who found out. Least of all himself. There is a quite telling interviewklip along the way:
Dirch: ‘Perhaps I find out of it one day’.
Interviewer: ‘Find out what?’
Dirch: ‘To exist’.
he did so, apparently never.
‘The other Dirch’ does not deal very much with what it was, Dirch could, and why we still remember him so clearly, nearly 40 years after his death, but to focus solely on the sad and self-destructive part of the story. The classic tale of the sad clown. As shown in this case was even true. What it was, he so persistently tried to escape from work and the alcohol, are we not much wiser. Maybe because no one knew it.
if you Buy the premise, is ‘The other Dirch’ a both touching and profoundly portrait. But if you want to know who the man Dirch Passer was, so are you not much much smarter. As he himself so aptly put it: ‘I don’t know. I don’t know him.’
If there is a lesson to be learnt here, then it to to to to stress and binge drinking rarely is the solution. On anything.
