Those Who Kill - Shadow of the Past

Mar 15, 2012

1h 30m

★ 6.6

Overview

Detective Katrine Ries Jensen and legal psychiatrist Thomas Schaeffer form a special unit at the Copenhagen Police investigating serial killings. A case from Schaeffer’s past crops up. As a young psychologist, he held back from sending a patient, who was manically drawing the details of a traffic accident, to a secure hospital. Now these bloody scenes resurface, enacted as real killings.

Genres

Crime

Drama

Thriller

Production Companies

Miso Film

Nordisk Film & TV Fond

SF Studios

Those Who Kill - Shadow of the Past Trailers

Cast

Thomas Schaeffer

Jakob Cedergren

Katrine Ries Jensen

Laura Bach

Magnus Bisgaard

Lars Mikkelsen

Kristian Almen

Simon Kvamm

Sørensen

Lars Ranthe

Mia Vogelsang

Lærke Winther

Stig Molbeck

Frederik Meldal Nørgaard

Benedicte Schaeffer

Iben Dorner

Johan Schaeffer

Benjamin Brüel

Ellen Severin

Petrine Agger

Ejendomsmægler

Thomas Baldus

Politibetjent

Christoph Bastrup

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