Brothers ( 2004 ) ( Brødre )

Brothers ( 2004 ) (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Brødre
Screened, competed or awarded at:
European Film Awards
San Sebastian International Film Festival
Sundance Film Festival
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
Danish ( Dolby Digital 5.1 )
Danish ( Dolby DTS 5.1 )
Danish ( Subtitles )
English ( Subtitles )
Norwegian ( Subtitles )
Spanish ( Subtitles )
Swedish ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
Denmark ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
112 min

Aspect Ratio:
Anamorphic Widescreen (1.85:1)

Special Features:
Biographies
Commentary
Deleted Scenes
Featurette
Interactive Menu
Posters
Trailer(s)

Movie filmed in 2004 and produced in:
Denmark ( Scandinavia, Iceland )

Directed By:
Susanne Bier

Written By:
Susanne Bier
Anders Thomas Jensen

Actors:
Connie Nielsen ..... Sarah
Ulrich Thomsen ..... Michael
Nikolaj Lie Kaas ..... Jannik
Sarah Juel Werner ..... Natalia
Rebecca Løgstrup ..... Camilla
Bent Mejding ..... Henning
Solbjørg Højfeldt ..... Else
Niels Olsen ..... Allentoft
Paw Henriksen ..... Soldat
Lars Hjortshøj ..... Preben 2
Lars Ranthe ..... Preben 1
André Babikian ..... Nadeem
Lene Maria Christensen ..... Jeanette
Tom Mannion ..... Miles
Karzan Sherabayani ..... Makmuhd

Synopsis:

The Danish filmmaker Suzanne Bier's gripping psychological drama is her second film to examine events worthy of Greek tragedy through a contemporary therapeutic lens. In "Open Hearts," her first collaboration with the screenwriter Anders Thomas Jensen, and in "Brothers," a man's life is abruptly shattered by a sudden, fateful event. Michael (Ulrich Thomsen), the wounded hero of "Brothers," is an officer in the Danish contingent of United Nations forces in Afghanistan. After his truck crashes, he is presumed dead. Captured by guerrillas, he is imprisoned and forced to carry out an atrocity that leaves him a broken man. When he returns to his wife, Sarah (Connie Nielsen), and two daughters in Denmark, he is seething with rage and guilt. Onto this already anguished scenario, "Brothers" grafts a volatile family dynamic straight out of R. D. Laing. Michael, a virtuous straight arrow and family man, is his father's favorite of two sons. His younger brother, Jannik (Nikolaj Lie Kaas), is a drunken wastrel who, as the movie begins, has just been released from prison after committing a petty crime.

On his way to report for a peacekeeping mission in Afghanistan, Danish Army officer Michael (Ulrich Thomsen) stops to pick up his brother Jannik (Nikolaj Lie Kaas), who is getting out of jail that day. In Afghanistan, Michael's helicopter crashes and he is presumed dead. Jannik and Michael's wife Sarah (Connie Nielson) discover that they don't hate each other as much as they had thought, and Jannik decides to reform and make himself useful around Sarah's house. Then Michael comes home with a full-blown case of post-traumatic stress disorder because of what he had to do to survive in captivity. Write your own ending and draw your own moral conclusions, if any.

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