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Powder Keg

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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 09/09/2021
3/4
The actors are outstanding in this engrossing and well-made docudrama. Go to Full Review Gary M. Kramer MovieJawn 09/17/2021
A well-meaning attempt to portray this horrific event, but the film generates more tedium than tension Go to Full Review Carey-Ann Pawsey Orca Sound 09/11/2021
3/5
An interesting aspect of the film is how it looks at the radicalization of those who were involved in the terrorist act. Go to Full Review Jennie Kermode Eye for Film 09/09/2021
3.5/4
This is a thoughtful film which attempts to make sense of the details of what happened whilst keeping an eye on the bigger picture. Go to Full Review Todd Jorgenson Cinemalogue 09/03/2021
... effectively infuses a familiar scenario with a character-driven perspective that's both culturally specific and thematically universal. Go to Full Review Anne Brodie What She Said 09/03/2021
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. Go to Full Review Read all reviews
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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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Synopsis 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
Creative Alliance, Danmarks Radio, 4 1/2 Film, Det Danske Filminstitut
Genre
Drama
Original Language
Danish
Release Date (Theaters)
Sep 3, 2021, Limited
Release Date (Streaming)
Sep 3, 2021
Runtime
1h 40m