Axel Witsel opened the scoring in the 38th minute for the Russians and Domenico Criscito doubled the advantage eight minutes after the break.
In this entrancing bittersweet mix of comedy and poignancy, Axel shifts from past to present and between voiceover narrative and dialogue with considerable skill.
With the help of Henning Kristiansen's atmospheric cinematography, in a range of muted primary colours, Axel captures the bleak Jutland peninsula of the 1870s, where live two unmarried sisters (Bodil Kjer, Birgitte Federspiel), daughters of the former pastor, and founder of an austere religious sect, who devote themselves to keeping alive his memory and his teachings in the tiny remote community.
After a six-year absence, Axel returned to film-making for his final feature, Leïla (2001), a love story about a teenage Moroccan girl and a young Danish tourist, depicted, for some reason, with only voiceover and no dialogue.
Axel was born in Århus, Denmark, but spent most of his childhood in France, where he learned to speak fluent French, a gift that would enable him to make a number of films for French television from 1977 to 1986.
The first film by Axel to get an international showing was Hagbard and Signe (aka The Red Mantle, 1967), a saga set in 1100 and shot entirely on location in Iceland.
Economy Minister Axel Kicillof said Fernandez planned to ask District Court Judge Thomas Griesa in New York to impose a stay on debt rulings to allow the country to make payments to creditors of restructured bonds on 30 June.
At the same time, Axel directed the softest of soft porn movies such as The Girls Are Willing (1958), Crazy Paradise (1962), and Paradise and Back (1964).
In a mixture of Danish and French, the slim, grey-bearded, bespectacled Axel quoted a line from the character of the General in the film: "Because of this evening, I have learned, my dear, that in this beautiful world of ours, all things are possible".
Axel then made the documentary Danish Blue (1968), which combines interviews, reconstructions and fiction, in an attempt to mock and undermine Denmark's censorship laws at the time.
There was some excuse for its failure: Axel fell ill during the editing process and was unable to complete post-production work.
