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Sep 10, 2014

0h 13m

★ 6.9

Overview

A foreign woman in a burqa brings her young son to a Copenhagen police station to file a complaint against her abusive husband, but the translator assigned to her seems unwilling to convey the true meaning of her words. A tense, diamond-hard film about cultural isolation and bureaucratic ignorance.

Genres

Drama

Production Companies

Nordic Factory Film

Suomen Elokuvasäätiö

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Cast

Police woman

Nanna Bøttcher

Son

Yusuf Kamal El-Ali

Translator

Amira Helene Larsen

Mother

Zeinab Rahal

Policeman

Alexandre Willaume

Policeman in office

Peter Fog Jensen

Woman in corridor

Maria Yang-Busch

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