A crew of young, small-time crooks screws up. Ripping off a shipping container of Chinese silk for a Rasta gang, they also come away with two and a half kilos of heroin belonging to the Latvian mafia. A friend of theirs, Jens (Kim Bodnia), a plainclothes cop, tries to mediate, but instead all barrels are turned on him. The Latvians and the Chinese want him. Jamaican dope growers, ice-cold Serbian heroin dealers and Polish human smugglers are gunning for him. And to top it all off, he also has to dodge his fellow officers, backed by the scuba corps and elite-forces soldiers, to save his young friends.
Acting
Kim Bodnia's exhausted everyman in an impossible situation
Direction
Lasse Spang Olsen's controlled chaos juggling five crime factions
Practical Effects
Pre-CGI Danish stunts hit harder than they should
Director
Lasse Spang Olsen
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
René Dif, who plays Thomas, was the male vocalist in Aqua—yes, the 'Barbie Girl' band—making this his unlikely action-hero pivot.
This belongs to Denmark's '90s-'00s gangster comedy boom, where filmmakers like Anders Thomas Jensen and Nicolas Winding Refn found humor in systemic collapse—though this one's far more slapstick than Pusher.
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