Martin Vinge, former notorious journalist, now successful headhunter with a complicated personal life, is in all confidentiality contacted by 85 year-old N.F. Sieger, S.E.O. of Denmark's largest shipping company and oil empire. Sieger hires Martin to find an alternative heir to the firm instead of his son, Daniel Sieger, who for a long time has been destined to take the company into the next era. Martin starts coming up with suitable names for the position, but discovers that he has actually been entangled in a larger impenetrable power game aimed at deciding what is really going to happen to the company; a brutal power struggle that puts an intense pressure on Martin and his private life and relationships.
Acting
Lars Mikkelsen's smoldering descent from smug to shattered.
Direction
Hammerich's cold, clinical framing of wealth and rot.
Director
Rumle Hammerich
Lars Mikkelsen
Martin Vinge
David Bateson
Dr. Liebmann
Charlotte Fich
Pernille
Samuel Fröler
Roland Berger
Andrea Vagn Jensen
Anne Louise Sieger
Henning Moritzen
Niels Frederiks Sieger
Charlotte Munck
Nina
Burkhard Forstreuter
Christian Vestergaard
Søren Spanning
Vestergaards stemme (voice)
Troels Lyby
Troels
Henrik Ipsen
Læge, RH
Preben Harris
Hjulman
Anders Valentinus Dam
Læge ved helikopter
Kjeld Nørgaard
Redaktør Bramming
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This was director Rumle Hammerich's return to feature films after nearly two decades working in television.
The film captures a specific moment of Danish corporate anxiety—family dynasties crumbling under globalization pressure.
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