A SECOND CHANCE
by Susanne Bier
synopsis
Detectives and best friends Andreas and Simon lead vastly different lives. Andreas has settled down with his beautiful wife and son while Simon, recently divorced, spends most of his waking hours getting drunk at the local strip club. But all that changes when the two of them are called out to a domestic dispute between a junkie couple, caught in a vicious cycle of violence and drugs. It all looks very routine - until Andreas finds the couple's neglected infant son, crying and hungry. The usually collected policeman finds himself confronted with his own powerlessness and is shaken to his core. One night he steals the baby. As Andreas slowly loses his grip on justice, it is suddenly up to the unruly Simon to restore the balance between right and wrong.
international title: | A Second Chance |
original title: | En chance til |
country: | Denmark, Sweden |
sales agent: | TrustNordisk |
year: | 2014 |
genre: | fiction |
directed by: | Susanne Bier |
film run: | 115' |
release date: | DK 15/01/2014, HR 19/03/2015, BE 01/2016 |
screenplay: | Anders Thomas Jensen |
cast: | Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Ulrich Thomsen, Nikolaj Lie Kaas, Thomas Bo Larsen, Maria Bonnevie, Bodil Jørgensen |
cinematography by: | Michael Snyman, Geir Hartly Andreassen |
film editing: | Pernille Bech Christensen, Morten Højbjerg |
music: | Johan Söderqvist |
producer: | Sisse Graum Jørgensen |
production: | Zentropa Entertainments, Zentropa International Sweden, FilmFyn |
backing: | Film i Väst, DFI, Svenska Filminstitutet, Nordisk Film & TV Fond, Eurimages |
distributor: | Nordisk Film Distribution, Discovery Film & Video Distribution, Cinéart |