Reality still rules: after A Hijacking, Lindholm goes to war in Afghanistan
- Danish director Tobias Lindholm will conclude his trilogy of “desperate men in small rooms” with The War, again with Pilou Asbæk in the lead
When Danish directors Tobias Lindholm and Michael Noer were working on their feature debut, the prison drama R [+see also:
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It was also the benchmark of A Hijacking [+see also:
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film profile] (2012), Lindholm’s second feature about a cargo ship, MV Bozen, which is captured by Somali pirates in the Indian Ocean; Danish international sales agency, TrustNordisk, licensed the thriller-drama to 52 countries, including the US (Magnolia Pictures) and the UK (Arrow Films).
While A Hijacking was most recently screened on the United Nations’ World Refugee Day in Nairobi, the scriptwriter-turned-director has announced that his next project will be The War, about military combat in Afghanistan, circling around the themes of democracy, violence, the costs of war and the rules of the game.
Concluding the trilogy of “desperate men in small rooms,” and set to commence principal photography in early 2014, the film will again star Danish actor Pilou Asbæk (photo), who was in hopeless situations in both R and A Hijacking – as a young prisoner in a hardcore ward, and a ship’s cook taken hostage, respectively.
As the two previous films The War will be produced by Tomas Radoor and René Ezra for Nordisk Film Production. Besides his own films, Lindholm has co-written Danish directors Thomas Vinterberg’s on Submarino [+see also:
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