Taxa

Synopsis

TAXA 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.

Cast

Pernille Højmark

Lotte Nielsen

Zlatko Burić

Meho Selimoviz

Pia Vieth

Birgit Boye-Larsen

Jesper Lohmann

Finn Johansen

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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

Crew

Art

• Kirsten Koch Production Design

Costume & Make-Up

• Stine Thaning Costume Design
• Lindsay Abbott Costume Design
• Pia Anthony Costume Design
• Bjarne Nilsson Costume Design
• Birgit Maach Hansen Makeup Artist
• Lillan Larsen Makeup Artist

Crew

• Stig Thorsboe Creator
• Stig Thorsboe Script

Directing

• Mette Hesthaven Assistant Director
• Christian Grønvall Assistant Director
• Jimmy Leavens Assistant Director
• Stine E. Andersen First Assistant Director
• Marit Jensen Script Supervisor
• Connie Wiberg Script Supervisor
• Mette Hesthaven Script Supervisor
• Louise Friedberg Script Supervisor
• Sedsel Andersen Script Supervisor
• Katinka Haxthausen Script Supervisor
• Charlotte Lange Script Supervisor

Editing

• Gerd Tjur Editor
• Henrik Fleischer Editor
• Aase Holm Editor
• Rie Wanting Editor
• Søren B. Ebbe Editor
• Lizzi Weischenfeldt Editor
• Ghita Beckendorff Editor

Production

• Sven Clausen Producer
• Rumle Hammerich Producer

Sound

• Jacob Groth Music
• Jacob Groth Original Music Composer

Writing

• Stig Thorsboe Writer
• Adam Price Writer
• Stig Thorsboe Idea

Seasons & episodes