The Keeper of Lost Causes
| The Keeper of Lost Causes | |
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| Directed by | Mikkel Nørgaard |
| Written by | Jussi Adler-Olsen |
| Screenplay by | Nikolaj Arcel |
| Produced by | Peter Aalbæk Jensen, Louise Vesth |
| Starring | Nikolaj Lie Kaas Fares Fares Sonja Richter Søren Pilmark |
| Cinematography | Eric Kress |
| Edited by | Morten Egholm Martin Schade |
| Music by | Patrik Andren Uno Helmersson Johan Soderqvist |
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The Keeper of Lost Causes (Danish: Kvinden i buret), also known as Department Q: The Keeper of Lost Causes, is a 2013 Danish film, directed by Mikkel Nørgaard. The movie is based on the novel by Jussi Adler-Olsen. It is the first film in the Department Q trilogy, followed by the 2014 film The Absent One, and the 2016 film A Conspiracy of Faith.
Plot
Carl Mørck is demoted to Department Q, the cold case unit, after a raid goes wrong. One case, a suspected suicide, piques his interest. His investigations suggest that the woman, a rising politician, was actually kidnapped. Mørck ruffles feathers, and is told to halt the investigation, but he and his colleague Assad continue.
A car crash leaves the children from two families without one or both parents and siblings. One of the children, a boy, grows up to seek revenge on a woman who as a girl caused the crash. The man blames the woman as she covered her dad's eyes as he was driving, which caused the crash.
Cast
- Nikolaj Lie Kaas – Carl Mørck
- Fares Fares – Assad
- Sonja Richter – Merete Lynggaard
- Mikkel Følsgaard – Uffe Lynggaard
- Søren Pilmark – Marcus Jacobsen
- Troels Lyby – Hardy Henningsen
- Patricia Schumann – Søs Norup
- Eric Ericson – Johan Lundquist
Release
The film was first shown at the Gothenburg Film Festival in January 2013, followed by several more film festivals before its cinema release in Denmark on 3 October 2013.[1] The film topped the local box office in 2013 with 725,000 Danish moviegoers buying tickets.[2]
References
- ^ Danish Film Institute: Kvinden i buret Linked 2017-04-02
- ^ Variety, October 6, 2013: ‘The Absent One’ Breaks Danish B.O. Records Relinked 2017-04-02