CINEHUNCH / YOUR NEXT CHAPTER

A FRESH ALLOWANCE AT MIDNIGHT · ISTANBUL TIME

Back to the finderTHE FILM / 2013
The Keeper of Lost Causes posterA FILM WORTH A CLOSER LOOK

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01 / THE STORY

A little about the film.

Carl Mørck is demoted to Department Q, the cold case unit, after a raid goes wrong. One case, a suspected suicide, piques his interest. His investigations suggest that the woman, a rising politician, was actually kidnapped. Mørck ruffles feathers, and is told to halt the investigation, but he and his colleague Assad continue.

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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME

The people who bring it to life.

Mikkel Boe Følsgaard

Mikkel Boe Følsgaard

Uffe Lynggaard

Eric Ericson

Johan Lundquist

Marijana Jankovic

Tereza

Claes Ljungmark

Larsson

Per Scheel Krüger

Rasmus Botoft

Rasmus Botoft

Patricia Schumann

Michael Brostrup