Talented 16-year-old Ruben gets the chance to have what most teenagers want - fame and success. But what are the costs?
Acting
Micky Skeel Hansen carries teenage desperation with painful authenticity.
Direction
Hagbjer's restraint lets the horror of compromise breathe.
Director
Martin Hagbjer
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Micky Skeel Hansen was an actual Danish pop star before acting; the film blurs his real biography.
Denmark's 2000s youth film wave rarely crossed borders — this is prime hidden Scandi cinema.
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