cult films

two brothers meet at their mother’s funeral, each in his way on a path of self-destruction, both haunted by a tragedy in their youth.

dir.: thomas vinterberg
2010
drama / drugs / violence

some facts:
- based on a jonas bengtsson’s book of the same name.
- it received public funding through the danish broadcaster tv2, whose condition for providing the money was that half of the cast and production crew would be first-timers.
- feature-film debutants included the cinematographer charlotte bruus christensen, the scriptwriter tobias lindholm and the stage actor peter plaugborg who played nick’s brother.

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