PREVIEW: Riders of Justice (15)

WHO’S IN IT?

Mads Mikkelsen (Another Round), Nikolaj Lie Kaas (Child 44), Andrea Heick Gadeberg (Daniel), Lars Brygmann (Good Favour), Nicolas Bro (Adam’s Apples), Gustav Lindh (Mending Hugo’s Heart), Roland Møller (Atomic Blonde), Albert Rudbeck Lindhardt (The Day Will Come), Anne Birgitte Lind (Groovy Days), Omar Shargawi (Go with Peace Jamil), Jacob Lohmann (Speed Walking), Henrik Noël (The Gold of Valhalla), Gustav Giese (Into the Darkness), Natalí Vallespir Sand (The Contest: To the Stars and Back)

WHO’S BEHIND THE CAMERA?

Anders Thomas Jensen (Men & Chicken), director, writer; Sidsel Hybschmann (The Commune) and Sisse Graum Jørgensen (Another Round), producers; Jeppe Kaas (Adam’s Apples), composer; Kasper Tuxen (Beginners), cinematographer; Anders Albjerg Kristiansen (Danny’s Doomsday) and Nicolaj Monberg (Cold Pursuit), editors

WHAT’S IT ABOUT?

Markus (Mikkelsen), a deployed soldier, returns home to comfort his teenage daughter Mathilde (Gadeberg) after her mother is suddenly killed in a tragic train accident. However, when he discovers that her death may have been part of a carefully orchestrated assassination, Markus and a small group of men set out to exact justice on those responsible…

IN ONE SENTENCE, WHY SHOULD YOU BE EXCITED?

Fresh off of a career-best turn in the Oscar-winning Another Round, Mads Mikkelsen shifts gears as a vengeful husband in this darkly comic but no-less intimidating Danish thriller about the soulless desire for revenge.

WHEN’S IT OUT?

FRIDAY 23RD JULY 2021

WHERE CAN I FIND IT?

IN CINEMAS NATIONWIDE

 

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