Inc Kino Lorber
1) Armadillo
Language
Danish
Description
Janus Metz's Armadillo follows a platoon of Danish soldiers on a six-month tour of Afghanistan in 2009. The film presents a stunning account of both the horror and growing cynicism of modern warfare, the film premiered at the top of the box office in Denmark, provoking a national debate over government policy and the rules of engagement.
2) Applause
Language
Danish
Description
Critically acclaimed alcoholic actress Thea Barfoed has gone through turmoil, resulting in a divorce and the loss of custody of her two boys. Eager to break with the past, regain control over her life, and get her children back, she uses charm and manipulation to persuade her ex-husband, Christian, that she is able to take back the mantle of motherhood. But ironically, she has not completely convinced herself.
Language
Danish
Description
Two years after the conclusion of the third series, the fourth and final season of Nordic Noir masterpiece The Bridge brings the series to a shocking close. A woman is brutally murdered on Pepparholm Island, at the base of the bridge. She is identified as Margrethe Thormod, General Director of the Migration Agency in Copenhagen. A motive may lie in a recent deportation scandal that affected Margrethe personally. Henrik Sabroe investigates the macabre...
Language
Danish
Description
An abandoned tanker ship crashes into the Øresund Bridge, on the border between Sweden and Denmark. Onboard are five Swedish and Danish youths, chained below deck, unconscious. Investigating the incident is Scandinavia's oddest couple: Swedish detective Saga Noren, hampered by primitive social skills, and Martin Rohde from Denmark, still reeling from the death of his son. Meanwhile, the case intensifies as eco-terrorists claim responsibility for...
Language
Danish
Description
When a famous Danish gender activist is found murdered on a building site in Sweden, posed in a way to resemble a family scene, Saga is assigned to the case, together with a new colleague who finds her difficult to work with. The strange murders continue and the poses are found to be linked to a specific art collection. When she is then partnered with Henrik, a different Danish detective with problems of his own, a relationship of a more personal...
Language
Danish
Description
A woman is found murdered in the middle of the Øresund Bridge on the border between Sweden and Denmark. Police from both countries are called to the scene, and what looks like one murder turns out to be two. It's a spectacular double murder of a high-profile Swedish politician and a Danish prostitute: the bodies have been brutally cut in half at the waist and put together to form a single corpse. It's also just the beginning of a wave of violence...