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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

Henning Moritzen | Thomas Bo Larsen | Thure Lindhardt | Ghita Nørby | Frits Helmuth | Niels Anders Thorn | Mira Wanting | Niels Skousen | Bjarne Buur | Sarah Boberg | Peter Aude | Hannah Bjarnhof | Holger Vistisen | Niels Weyde | Susanne Jagd | Pia Vieth | Magnus Stahl Jacobsen | Bodil Lindorff | Christian Hjejle | Birgitte von Halling-Koch | René Benjamin Hansen | Ian Burns | Ulver Skuli Abildgaard | Bent Ove Jacobsen | Dorit Stender-Petersen | Jesper Birch | Christian Steffensen