Season 5 • Episode 11
LatestTAXA is a Danish television drama made by Danmarks Radio with 56 episodes, written by Stig Thorsboe and produced by Rumble Hammerich. The series revolves around a small taxi central, CrownTaxi, in Copenhagen. The series was a success from the start, 14 September 1997 on DR1. The series was broadcast during the period 1997-1999 for a total of five series. CrownTaxi has its ups and downs and in the course of the series, following the various drivers, radio opertor Lizzie and boss Verner Boye-Larsen. They have all their problems both with clients and family life and constantly threaten the show's villain Hermann from the competing taxi firm, City Car, which wants to take over the CrownTaxi. TAXA was also screened in Sweden on SVT1.
Acting
Zlatko Burić before Pusher fame — magnetic.
Writing
Thorsboe turns taxi shifts into Greek tragedy.
Production
Pre-gentrification Copenhagen, beautifully preserved.
Creator
Stig Thorsboe
Pernille Højmark
Lotte Nielsen
Zlatko Burić
Meho Selimoviz
Pia Vieth
Birgit Boye-Larsen
Jesper Lohmann
Finn Johansen
Leif Sylvester
Tom Lund
Peter Gantzler
Mike Engholm / Taxa Mike
John Hahn-Petersen
Verner Boye-Larsen
Margrethe Koytu
Lizzie Boye-Larsen
Anders W. Berthelsen
René Boye-Larsen
Peter Mygind
Andreas Lund-Andersen
Helene Egelund
Gitte
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Zlatko Burić's breakout role as Meho led directly to his casting in Nicolas Winding Refn's Pusher trilogy. The taxi dispatcher became a Balkan gangster.
Taxa aired during DR's golden age of prestige television, paving the way for The Killing and Borgen. It proved Danes would watch 56 episodes of ordinary people being quietly destroyed.
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