A backpack, a bomb, and a cartoon crisis — Denmark's 15-minute anxiety attack.
In an apartment in Copenhagen a young Arabic man is placing an object that appears to be a bomb in a backpack. Meanwhile he listens to the radio news telling of the latest development in the cartoon crisis. Has this young man had enough of Danish intolerance and hostility. Will he go to the extreme and do the thing we've all feared?
Direction
Troelstrup builds dread from silence and routine.
Acting
Lippert's restraint makes the unthinkable feel possible.
Director
Jesper Troelstrup
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Made during the 2005 Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoon controversy that sparked global protests and violence.
The 15-minute runtime mirrors real-time suspense tactics later used in films like 'United 93' — you know something might happen, not if.
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