Movie: A Place Nearby

Top 10 Billed Cast

Ghita Nørby
Ghita Nørby

Fru Nielsen

Thure Lindhardt
Thure Lindhardt

Brian

Frits Helmuth
Frits Helmuth

Jespersen

Henning Moritzen
Henning Moritzen

Baronen

Bodil Lindorff
Bodil Lindorff

Posekonen

Magnus Stahl Jacobsen
Magnus Stahl Jacobsen

Lille Brian

Hannah Bjarnhof
Hannah Bjarnhof

Sarons Rose

Sarah Boberg
Sarah Boberg

Ung kvinde

Thomas Bo Larsen
Thomas Bo Larsen

Ung mand

Pia Vieth
Pia Vieth

Pædagogen

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    The city is gasping for air in the scorching summer heat; everyone is under suspicion; a persistent detective superintendent is burrowing for the truth. A fiercely penetrating drama about a mother's love for her autistic adult son, who is suspected of murdering a local girl. The mother knows her son could have committed the murder, but she conceals her knowledge, and gradually becomes entangled in a thicket of lies. How far is she prepared to go to protect her son who is helpless in so many ways? Does she have it within her to give up the only person she loves?

  • Release Date

    2000-01-21

  • Average

    5.8

  • Rating:

    2.9 starts
  • Tagline

    A fiercely penetrating drama about a mother's love for her autistic adult son.

  • Genres

  • Languages:

    Dansk
  • Keywords

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