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TrustNordisk pushes genre films at AFM

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TrustNordisk will bring chilling and dark movies from all over Scandinavia at the 31st American Film Market in Los Angeles (November 3-10), starting with Priest of Evil, based on the eponymous novel by internationally renowned Finnish crime novelist Matti Yrjänä Joensuu.

Directed by Olli Saarela and produced by Matila Röhr Productions (MRP), Priest of Evil features well-known chief superintendent Timo Harjunpää (Peter Franzén) who conducts an investigation following a series of crimes while trying to cope with the tragic loss of his own daughter. The film which opened last weekend in Finland will screen for the first time at the AFM.

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Catering for horror fans, Cold Prey: The Beginning (Fritt vilt III) is a prequel to the first two movies of the successful Norwegian Cold Prey trilogy, featuring five young people who take a trip up to the woods only to find a cold-blooded killer. The film directed by Mikkel B. Sandemose will also screen for the first time at the AFM.

TrustNordisk’s sales team at the AFM Susanne Wendt and Nicolai Korsgaard will also offer pre-sales on Lars von Trier’s English-language Melancholia; Norwegian title Headhunter, based on the international best-selling novel by Jo Nesbø; and Daniel Espinosa’s Easy Money 2 and Easy Money 3, again starring Joel Kinnaman.

Three films part of high-profile Scandinavian crime TV series will also screen at the AFM: Utopia, starring Laura Bach, Jacob Cedergren (Submarino [+see also:
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) and Lars Mikkelsen is the second of six films from one season produced by Miso Film; The Writing on the Wall, directed by Stefan Fladbakken, is the first film from the second season of the Norwegian Varg Veum series; and Beck-Buried Alive is episode 26 of the Swedish Beck series starring, among others, Mikael Persbrandt.

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