A stranger comes to town. The enigmatic protagonist, Seth, gets off the bus one hot summer day at the end of August and takes rooms at the local inn. This sets off a long chain of reactions in the town. Reactions that have dramatic and fatal consequences for everyone involved.
Acting
Lars Mikkelsen's silent, magnetic presence.
Direction
Anders Refn's patient, accumulating dread.
Director
Anders Refn
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Anders Refn is Nicolas Winding Refn's father, and this film shares the same controlled visual precision as his son's work.
Adapting Herman Bang's 1890 novella, the film preserves the original's critique of Danish provincial repression—still relevant a century later.
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