Deliver Us from Evil

Fri os fra det onde

Denmark, Sweden, Norway

2009

93 Min

Color

2.35:1

Danish

Currently 3.4/5 Stars.
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CAST Lene Nystrom, Fanny Bornedal, Jacob Ottensten, Mogens Pedersen, Lone Lindorff, Jens Andersen, Pernille Vallentin, Bojan Navojec, Lasse Rimmer

MUSIC Stefan Nilsson, Johan Liljedal

SOUND Nino Jacobsen

Toronto (Contemporary World Cinema), Transilvania (Shadows), CPH PIX

Synopsis

Lars and Johannes are brothers with very little in common. Johannes is a high-powered lawyer with a beautiful wife and two children; Lars is a truck driver and a brute who beats his girlfriend. Having returned to his hometown in the country, Johannes hopes for a less hectic lifestyle, but trouble is underfoot when Lars runs over a woman in a moment of inattention. He sees only one way out: put the blame on the Bosnian refugee Alain, whose post-traumatic stress has impaired his mental functions. But when Lars, the husband of the victim, Ingvar, and their friends close in on the Bosnian, Johannes stands up for the hard-working man and brings him home with him. Undeterred, the drunken horde starts to siege Johannes’ secluded house, in which Johannes, his wife, his children and Alain all fear for their lives. —Transilvania International Film Festival

Director

Ole Bornedal

Ole Bornedal is among the most internationally recognised directors in Danish ﬁlm. His big breakthrough was the thriller Nightwatch (Nattevagten)” (1994) which he both wrote and directed. Three years later he ﬁlmed the English remake Nightwatch starring Ewan McGregor, Nick Nolte and Patricia Arquette. In 2002, Ole Bornedal premiered the magniﬁcent Dina (Jeg er Dina), Scandinavia’s largest ﬁlm project ever, which then went on to receive a number of awards at international ﬁlm festivals all over the world. Ole Bornedal’s recent original fantasy horror/thriller The Substitute (Vikaren) starring Paprika Steen, was also received with great acclaim. Currently ﬁlming, Deliver Us From Evil (Fri os fra det onde). –Revolver Entertainment