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Brothers
Poster from theatrical release
Theatrical-release poster
Directed bySusanne Bier
Written bySusanne Bier
Anders Thomas Jensen
Produced byPeter Aalbæk Jensen
Sisse Graum Jørgensen
StarringNikolaj Lie Kaas
Connie Nielsen
Ulrich Thomsen
CinematographyMorten Søborg
Edited byPernille Bech Christensen
Adam Nielsen
Music byJohan Söderqvist
Production
company
Distributed byNordisk Film
Release date
  • 27 August 2004 (2004-08-27)
Running time
117 minutes
CountryDenmark
LanguagesDanish
English
Arabic

Brothers (Template:Lang-da) is a 2004 Danish drama film directed by Susanne Bier and written by Bier and Anders Thomas Jensen. It stars Nikolaj Lie Kaas, Connie Nielsen and Ulrich Thomsen.

The film was remade as an American production with the same title (2009), directed by Jim Sheridan.

Plot

A Danish officer, Michael (Thomsen), is sent to the International Security Assistance Force operation in Afghanistan for three months. His first mission there is to find a young radar technician who had been separated from his squad some days earlier. While on the search, his helicopter is shot down and he is taken as a prisoner of war, but is reported dead to the family.

His wife Sarah (Nielsen) and younger brother Jannik (Kaas) both deeply mourn him, and that brings them closer together. They kiss once, but pass it off as the grief and do not pursue the relationship.

Meanwhile, both the officer and a young technician are locked up in a warehouse, kept without food or water. After Michael shows them how to arm and disarm an anti-aircraft missile, his captors decide the technician is no longer useful and have Michael bludgeon him to death with a lead pipe in order to save his own life. Eventually he is rescued and brought back to Denmark. The guilt of what he did forces him to lie and provide false hope that the technician may still be alive.

Michael becomes unstable, spiraling down into a pit of guilt and rage, and begins to threaten and abuse his wife and tear the house apart. It finally becomes necessary for the police to intervene. Michael overreacts, pointing a policeman's pistol at the officers. With Michael in custody, Jannik helps Sarah to begin the repairs to the house.

In the car, Sarah passes a sign reading "Statsfængslet" (National Prison). Her visit to Michael in prison finally forces him to admit the truth about Afghanistan.

Cast

Production

The film was produced by Zentropa in co-production with companies in the United Kingdom, Sweden and Norway.[1] It received support from the Danish Film Institute, Swedish Film Institute and Nordisk Film- & TV-Fond (Nordic Film and TV Foundation).[1] It was primarily shot on location in Copenhagen, Denmark; Almería, Spain, was used for the Afghanistan locales.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b c Database (n.d.). "Brødre". Nationalfilmografien (in Danish). Danish Film Institute. Retrieved August 5, 2010.
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