A college professor abandons his family and his career in order to champion his mistress, a student radical accused of killing a policeman.
Acting
Jesper Christensen's spectacular collapse into pathetic self-importance.
Direction
Per Fly's clinical observation of domestic carnage.
Director
Per Fly
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Per Fly's 'Manslaughter' trilogy explores masculine failure through class lens; this middle entry is the most uncomfortably personal.
Pernilla August, playing the discarded wife, had just finished directing her own infidelity drama — casting here feels deliberately meta.
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