KANDIDATEN (The Candidate) (Danish)
The Story:
Jonas Bechmann (Nikolaj Lie Kaas), defence lawyer working hard to achieve his goals. His dad died under mysterious circumstances, and that bothers him, but now he is aiming to get his job at the big advokat office. Everything goes wrong at the job interview though. The boss, who is also Jonas' godfather, discovers his obsession of his dad's unsolved case, and rejects to give him the job.
Frustrated and disillusioned he takes a wild night out, drinking his brains out and ends up in bed with a girl he doesn't know. When he wakes up he finds himself in a rented hotel room, and the girl is laying dead on the bathroom floor. Brutally murdered. He doesn't remember anything of what happened the night before, and soon he is charged for a murder he didn't commit. Or did he? His best friend and his girlfriend begin to doubt, and he has to flee alone. He is being dragged deeper and deeper into a criminal underworld, where nothing is what it seems to be.
Starring:
Nikolaj Lie Kaas, Ulf Pilgaard, Laura Christensen, Tuva Novotny, David Dencik
Directed By:
Kasper Barfoed
Release:
2008
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