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Los Feliz 3 | Q&A with filmmaker Nikolaj Arcel and actor Mads Mikkelsen. Moderated by Claudia Puig. 

Denmark’s Official Oscar Submission for Best International Feature Film

‘Masterworks of Danish Cinema: A Day with Mads Mikkelsen & Nikolaj Arcel’

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  • RELEASED IN: 2023
  • 127 MINUTES
  • DIRECTED BY: Nikolaj Arcel

ABOUT THE FILM: 

In Danish with English Subtitles.

In 18th century Denmark, Captain Ludvig Kahlen (Mads Mikkelsen) – a proud, ambitious, but impoverished war hero — sets out to tame a vast, uninhabitable land on which seemingly nothing can grow. He seeks to start farming crops, build a colony in the name of the King, and gain a noble title for himself. This beautiful but forbidding area also happens to be under the rule of the merciless Frederik De Schinkel, a preening nobleman who realizes the threat Kahlen represents to his power. Struggling against the elements and local brigands, Kahlen is joined by a couple who have fled the clutches of the rapacious De Schinkel. As this group of misfits begins to build a small community in this inhospitable place, De Schinkel swears vengeance, and the confrontation between him and Kahlen promises to be as violent and intense as these two men.

FORMAT: DCP

DISTRIBUTOR: Magnolia Pictures

COUNTRY: Denmark