The Absent One

(2014)

★ 7 IMDb · 706 votes

Genres: Thriller

Year: 2014

Runtime: 114 мин

Country: Denmark, Germany

Director: Миккел Норгаард

Cast: Николай Ли Каас, Фарес Фарес, Пилу Асбек, Давид Денсик, Даница Чурчич, Сара-Софи Бусснина, Johanne Louise Schmidt, Marco Ilsø, Beate Bille, Peter Christoffersen

Plot

Denmark, 2014. A former police officer asks Carl Mørck, head of Department Q, to find out who brutally killed his young twins in 1994. Although a local inhabitant confessed and was convicted of murder, Carl and his partner Assad soon realize that there is something in the case resolution that is terribly wrong.

Rugged and irritable Carl Morck (Nikolaj Lie Kaas) and his colleague, the Syria-born Assad, run the cold-case division of the Copenhagen police. After a desperate appeal to Morck about the unsolved killing of his own teenage children, an ex-cop commits suicide. This leads the detective pair on a twisted mission to discover what really happened in the 1990s at one of the country's poshest boarding schools. Director Mikkel Norgaard reunites with lead stars Kaas and Fares to portray this taut fiction which again alternates deftly between the past and present.