CINEHUNCH / YOUR NEXT CHAPTER

A FRESH ALLOWANCE AT MIDNIGHT · ISTANBUL TIME

Back to the finderTHE FILM / 2018
The Purity of Vengeance posterA FILM WORTH A CLOSER LOOK

THE FEATURE PRESENTATION

MOVIE2018 1h 40m DNK

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The first Department Q case offers the same bruised partnership, cold Danish atmosphere, and methodical excavation of institutional wrongdoing, with suspense built through parallel strands rather than action.

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Why this pick

Its spare Scandinavian chill and patient investigative rhythm preserve the series’ sense of damaged people following a buried trail into unsettling moral territory.

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A taut Danish thriller driven by procedural listening and a flawed investigator’s urgency, delivering the same bleak ethical pressure in a far more confined form.

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01 / THE STORY

A little about the film.

Copenhagen, Denmark, 2018. A frightening discovery is made in an old apartment. The subsequent investigation of Department Q members leads them to an infamous institution for girls that was suddenly closed in the early sixties.

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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME

The people who bring it to life.

Michael Brostrup

Børge Bak

Nicolas Bro

Nicolas Bro

Brandt

Fanny Leander Bornedal

Fanny Leander Bornedal

Nete

Vibeke Hastrup

Mie Nørvig

Anders Juul

Gunnar

Birthe Neumann

Birthe Neumann

Nete (ældre)

Anders Brink Madsen

Anders Brink Madsen

Håndværker 1

Trine Pallesen

Trine Pallesen

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