Powder Keg

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Powder Keg

Released Sep 3, 2021

1h 46m

Drama

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Based on true events. In an icy cold Europe, people are slowly moving on after the shocking terrorist attack on Charlie Hebdo. In Copenhagen, the newly released criminal Omar has his own agenda. Meanwhile filmmaker Finn, Jewish watchman Dan and the worn-out action force officer Rico live their various everyday lives unaware of their common destiny. All of them affected by a rapidly changing world while they try to make sense of their own, and too late realize that life changes in an instant, fast and merciless, leaving only one of them left to tell the story about the tragic attack that forever changed the country.

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Randy Myers

San Jose Mercury News

The actors are outstanding in this engrossing and well-made docudrama.

Rated: 3/4

Sep 9, 2021

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Gary M. Kramer

MovieJawn

A well-meaning attempt to portray this horrific event, but the film generates more tedium than tension

Sep 17, 2021

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Carey-Ann Pawsey

Orca Sound

An interesting aspect of the film is how it looks at the radicalization of those who were involved in the terrorist act.

Rated: 3/5

Sep 11, 2021

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Jennie Kermode

Eye for Film

This is a thoughtful film which attempts to make sense of the details of what happened whilst keeping an eye on the bigger picture.

Rated: 3.5/4

Sep 9, 2021

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Todd Jorgenson

Cinemalogue

... effectively infuses a familiar scenario with a character-driven perspective that's both culturally specific and thematically universal.

Sep 3, 2021

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Anne Brodie

What She Said

It's not a Powder Keg, it's subtler than that, and a reflection of the fractured political world we're in right now, and the powder keg that is Europe.

Sep 3, 2021

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Ole Christian Madsen

Director

Nikolaj Coster-Waldau

Rico

Lars Brygmann

Finn Nørgaard

Albert Arthur Amiryan

Omar

Adam Buschard

Dan

Jakob Oftebro

Jan

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Based on true events. In an icy cold Europe, people are slowly moving on after the shocking terrorist attack on Charlie Hebdo. In Copenhagen, the newly released criminal Omar has his own agenda. Meanwhile filmmaker Finn, Jewish watchman Dan and the worn-out action force officer Rico live their various everyday lives unaware of their common destiny. All of them affected by a rapidly changing world while they try to make sense of their own, and too late realize that life changes in an instant, fast and merciless, leaving only one of them left to tell the story about the tragic attack that forever changed the country.

Director: Ole Christian Madsen
Producer: Malene Blenkov
Screenwriter: Ole Christian Madsen, Lars K. Andersen
Distributor: Samuel Goldwyn Films
Production Co: 4 1/2 Film, Creative Alliance, Det Danske Filminstitut, Danmarks Radio
Genre: Drama
Original Language: Danish
Release Date (Theaters): Sep 3, 2021, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Sep 3, 2021
Runtime: 1h 46m

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