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A Hijacking

Kapringen

Denmark

2012

99 Min
Color
1.85:1
Danish, English, Somali
  • Currently 3.4/5 Stars.
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DIR Tobias Lindholm

EXEC Lena Haugaard, Thomas Heinesen, Henrik Zein

PROD Rene Ezra, Tomas Radoor

SCR Tobias Lindholm

DP Magnus Nordenhof Jønck

CAST Amalie Ihle Alstrup, Johan Philip Asbæk, Ole Dupont, Søren Malling, Roland Møller, Dar Salim

ED Adam Nielsen

PROD DES Thomas Greve

MUSIC Hildur Guðnadóttir

Toronto (Contemporary World Cinema), Venice (Horizons), AFI FEST (New Auteurs), San Francisco (New Directors)

Synopsis

The cargo ship “MV Rozen” is heading for harbor when it is boarded and captured by pirates in the Indian Ocean. Amongst the men on board are the ship’s cook Mikkel and the engineer Jan, who along with the rest of the seamen are taken hostage in a cynical game of life and death. With the demand for a ransom of millions of dollars a psychological drama unfolds between the CEO of the shipping company and the Somali pirates. —La Biennale di Venezia

Director

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Tobias Lindholm

Tobias Lindholm (born 1977) is a Danish screenwriter and film director.

Lindholm is a frequent collaborator of film director Thomas Vinterberg, with whom he has written the screenplays for feature films Submarino and The Hunt, as well as writing the scripts for his own films: hard-hitting prison movie R and hostage drama A Hijacking. The latter premiered at the 2012 Venice Film Festival in the Orizzonti section.
Lindholm has also made a mark for himself on TV as a regular episode writer on Danish political TV-series Borgen, credited on all 20 episodes of the series first two seasons, either as an episode writer or storyline contributor. —Wikipedia 

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melimoi

28May13

Very tense and seemingly truthful to the reality of two very different worlds/points of view involved in the same crisis.

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Matt Richards

28Apr13

From the writer of The Hunt (jagten), Kapringen is a surprisingly frustrating film on a logic level that disables it before it really gets a chance. Documentary-like in style it's real strength is the performance from lead Pilou Asbæk as the ships cook who's both fresh and full of nuance as a family man slowly coming apart during the long ordeal. Lindholm also wrote Submarino a few years back. 3 stars

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eek

20Apr13

realistic, intense, disturbing

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Carlos Filipe Freitas

24Feb13

Avoids being manipulative and conveys a sensation of truthfulness. Review and Rating: http://alwayswatchgoodmovies.blogspot.com/2013/02/a-hijacking-2012.html

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The Director And Star Of Danish Prison Drama R Return With A HIJACKING

By Twitchfilm.com on August 26, 2012
It has been a busy couple years for Denmark’s Tobias Lindholm. Though his 2010 directorial debut R – cowritten and codirected with Michael Noer – suffered some from being released in close proximity to
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Tense First Trailer For Tobias Lindholm's Venice Selected A HIJACKING (KAPRINGEN)

By Twitchfilm.com on August 26, 2012
[Updated with English subtitled trailer.]Ever since Tobias Lindholm first appeared on the international scene as co-director of prison drama R it was clear that he had the potential to lead a new generation
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