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Bornedal ready to deliver audiences from evil

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Popular Danish filmmaker Ole Bornedal is back on Danish screens today with his new thriller Deliver Us from Evil [+see also:
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, released on over 40 screens by SF Film.

Based on Bornedal’s original script, the film centres on an illegal immigrant who is accused of a murder he did not commit and becomes a victim of xenophobia in a small Danish town. “Deliver us from Evil is an allegory on hatred towards foreigners,” Bornedal told Cineuropa. “It shows how insane things can become if people do not talk to one another.”

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The lead roles are played by Lasse Rimmer, Lene Nystrom Rasted and Jens Andersen. The film was produced by Thura Film with support from the Danish Film Institute and Nordisk Film & TV Fond.

Bornedal’s last two features, The Substitute [+see also:
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and Just Another Love Story [+see also:
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, directed back to back in 2007, together sold over 400,000 tickets in Denmark. This dark thriller, however, will meet tough competition from The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo [+see also:
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. Last weekend, the first Millennium film released by Nordisk Film was still number one in Denmark after five weeks on 86 screens, garnering over 765,000 admissions.

Other new films coming out today include John Crowley’s UK film Boy A [+see also:
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(Miracle Film), the US/German/UK family film Inkheart [+see also:
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by Ian Softley (SF Film), and US action and animated films, respectively, Fast & Furious and Monsters vs Aliens (both distributed by UIP).

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