King's Game
King's Game (Kongekabale) is a 2004 Danish political thriller film directed by Nikolaj Arcel. It stars Anders W. Berthelsen and Nicolas Bro as reporters uncovering a Government conspiracy. The film received critical praise and won many awards.
Plot
Eleven days before the parliamentary election, the Centre Party's main candidate, who is about to become the next Danish Prime Minister, and his wife have a car accident. His situation is critical and nobody knows if he will survive. Even his wife, who is also hospitalised, is not informed. The next day, Torp is assigned to cover the election. Quickly, he is drawn into the internal power struggle in the Centre Party where two very different politicians, Erik Dreyer and Lone Kjeldsen, show interest in gaining power and potentially becoming the next Prime Minister. Torp, the son of a previous justice minister, writes his first front-page story after a tip-off from the Centre Party press coordinator, Peter Schou. The story turns out to be "planted spin" in order to damage Lone Kjeldsen (Nastja Arcel) to allow the advantage to Dreyer who benefits from her lost credibility.
Cast
- Anders Nyborg
- Anders Peter Bro
- Anders W. Berthelsen
- Bjarne Henriksen
- Charlotte Munck
- Christiane Bjørg Nielsen
- Clara Bahamondes
- Frank Thiel
- Gunilla Roijer
- Hans Henrik Voetmann
- Helle Fagralid
- Henrik Noél Olesen
- Jens Jørn Spottag
- Jes Dorph-Petersen
- Jesper Langberg
- Kaare R. Skou
- Kenneth Carmohn
- Kurt Ravn
- Lars Brygmann
- Lars Mikkelsen
- Laura Christensen
- Mikael Kamber
- Nastja Arcel
- Nicolaj Kopernikus
- Nicolas Bro
- Niels Krause-Kjær
- Robert Hansen
- Søren Pilmark
- Søren Poppel
- Susanne Breuning
- Ulf Pilgaard
More details
| author | Niels Krause-Kjær Nikolaj Arcel Rasmus Heisterberg |
|---|---|
| contentLocation | Copenhagen |
| director | Nikolaj Arcel |
| genre | drama political thriller |
| keywords | car accident danish prime minister elections in denmark justice minister life support parliamentary election power struggle prime minister prime minister of denmark stringer unemployed |
| producer | Meta Louise Foldager |
| publisher | Dogwoof Pictures Medusa Distribuzione |
| theme | political thriller |