Ernst & the Light
The businessman Ernst has just landed in the airport and is on his way home to his wife. Its raining heavy outside and therefore he takes a hitchhiker with him. They start a conversation about the value of life and soon it becomes evident to the spectators that the hitchhiker is Jesus Christ, but Ernst is in too much of a rush to go back to his wife to notice.
Comedy
6.7
15 reviewsRuntime: 12 min.
Budget: N/A
Revenue: N/A
Release Date: 1996-08-23
Director(s): Anders Thomas Jensen, Tomas Villum Jensen
Languages: Danish
IMDB: tt0116214
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CinemaSerf★ 7/1012/26/2025
The distinctly earthy “Ernst” (Jens Jørg Spottag) has just landed and called his wife before setting off on the drive home. It’s a pretty miserable evening and so he stops to pick up an hitchhiker en route. This fellow claims to be Jesus. Yes, that Jesus. Of course, “Ernst” is highly dubious but as their trip proceeds he starts to wonder if his passenger really is whom he claims to be - and that’s when the conversation starts to get quite peppery. Many of the questions posed are those you might ask yourself, not least about the role of him and his dad and just how they might be relevant two millennia on when mankind may, indeed, need salvation - though probably not from a man who speaks in the sort of biblical-style riddles that wouldn't engage many modern day sceptics. It’s very quirkiness is what makes it funny. That and the expressions on the face of Spottag as the Kroner gradually drops, and of course it doesn’t shy away from taking aim at man’s new divinity: technology. If everyone had been like "Ernst" at the time, I don’t think Christianity would ever have got off the ground!