10/01/2013 - Already bestowed with six international prizes - and now nominated for a BAFTA Award - Danish director Thomas Vinterberg's The Hunt is released today in 119 local theatres

When Danish director Thomas Vinterberg's The Hunt [+see also:
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Yesterday (Jan 9) the film was nominated for a British Academy Film Award as Best Film Not in the English Language., with Austrian director Michael Haneke's Love [+see also:
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After the triumph at Cannes, The Hunt was sold to more than 30 territories (including the US, where Magnolia Pictures has scheduled a premiere in May). But Danish producer Zentropa Entertainments and distributor Nordisk Film Distribution had agreed to the local January 10 opening to be included in the annual offer from Cinema Club Denmark, which provides its 190,000 members theatre tickets with a discount, and the slot could not be changed.

Scripted by Vinterberg and Tobias Lindholm - who won a European Film Award for Best Screenwriters - the Morten Kaufmann and Sisse Graum Jørgensen production tells the story of a 40-year-old man (Mikkelsen) in a small provincial community, who has finally recovered from a tough divorce, when a five-year-old kindergartener drops a remark that accuses him of abusing her. Cast includes Susse Wold (her first film role in 26 years), Thomas Bo Larsen, Lars Ranthe and Anne Louise Hassing.