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A Place Nearby (2000)
Directed by Kaspar Rostrup
Overview
The city is gasping for air in the scorching summer heat; everyone is under suspicion; a persistent detective superintendent is burrowing for the truth. A fiercely penetrating drama about a mother’s love for her autistic adult son, who is suspected of murdering a local girl. The mother knows her son could have committed the murder, but she conceals her knowledge, and gradually becomes entangled in a thicket of lies. How far is she prepared to go to protect her son who is helpless in so many ways? Does she have it within her to give up the only person she loves?
Length 100 minutes
Actors
Ghita Nørby | Thure Lindhardt | Frits Helmuth | Henning Moritzen | Bodil Lindorff | Magnus Stahl Jacobsen | Hannah Bjarnhof | Sarah Boberg | Thomas Bo Larsen | Pia Vieth | Niels Anders Thorn | Niels Weyde | Niels Skousen | Ulver Skuli Abildgaard | Bent Ove Jacobsen | Susanne Jagd | Peter Aude | Dorit Stender-Petersen | Ian Burns | Christian Hjejle | Mira Wanting | Birgitte von Halling-Koch | Bjarne Buur | Jesper Birch | Holger Vistisen | René Benjamin Hansen | Christian Steffensen