A Danish officer, Michael, is sent away to the International Security Assistance Force operation in Afghanistan for three months. His first mission there is to find a young radar technician who had been separated from his squad some days earlier. While on the search, his helicopter is shot down and he is taken as a prisoner of war, but is reported dead to the family.
Acting
Ulrich Thomsen's kitchen table breakdown — shattering.
Direction
Bier's handheld intimacy makes your own living room feel unsafe.
Director
Susanne Bier
Connie Nielsen
Sarah
Ulrich Thomsen
Michael
Nikolaj Lie Kaas
Jannik
Sarah Juel Werner
Natalia
Rebecca Løgstrup
Camilla
Solbjørg Højfeldt
Else
Bent Mejding
Henning
Niels Olsen
Allentoft
Paw Henriksen
Niels Peter
Lars Ranthe
Preben 1
Lars Hjortshøj
Preben 2
André Babikian
Nadeem
Lene Maria Christensen
Jeanette
Henrik Koefoed
Bartender
Kae Bahar
Makmuhd
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Bier filmed the Afghanistan sequences in just two weeks in Turkey; the kitchen scenes took longer because the actors kept breaking down between takes.
This was Denmark's first major film about Afghanistan deployment, released while Danish soldiers were still dying there — audiences walked out of Q&As with veterans.
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