Cutterhead (2018)
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Christine Sønderris, Kresimir Mikić, Samson Semere, Adrian Heili
When an accident traps PR officer Rie underground with two drilling workers, their survival depends on trusting one another.
The story
PR officer Rie visits a tunnel-boring machine 20 metres beneath Copenhagen’s streets to portray the cooperation behind the metro construction. An accident traps her in a pressure chamber with Ivo, a Croatian drilling roughneck, and Bharan, who is from Eritrea. Though they have radically different worldviews, the three must rely on one another to survive the heat, pressure and mud inside the claustrophobic cutting head.
Full plot (contains spoilers)
PR officer Rie is visiting a tunnel-boring machine 20 metres beneath the streets of Copenhagen to portray the well-oiled European cooperation behind the metro construction when an accident traps her in a pressure chamber with Ivo, the Croatian drilling roughneck, and Bharan from Eritrea. Despite their radically different worldviews, they must put their lives and bodies in one another’s hands to survive the heat, pressure and mud inside the claustrophobic cutting head. The music for Cutterhead was nominated for a Robert in 2020 and won the Carl of the Year for Best Score that same year.
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