Skytten (2013)
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Cast
Trine Dyrholm, Kim Bodnia, Kristian Halken, Nikolaj Lie Kaas
A former Olympic marksman turns a journalist’s provocative remark into a campaign of carefully chosen shootings against a government’s Greenland oil-drilling plans.
The story
Over five days in Copenhagen, public anger grows after a newly installed government breaks its election promises and decides, together with the United States, to drill for oil in vulnerable northeastern Greenland. A female journalist and political commentator publicly says she understands that some people might go to great lengths to stop the plan. A geophysicist and former Olympic marksman takes her words literally and begins shooting carefully selected people to draw attention to the issue, turning a political controversy into a dangerous campaign.
Full plot (contains spoilers)
The film takes place over five days in Copenhagen, where much of the Danish population is outraged that a newly installed government has broken its election promises and decided, together with the United States, to drill for oil in vulnerable northeastern Greenland. A female journalist and political commentator publicly says that she understands if some people are willing to go to great lengths to stop the government’s plans. A geophysicist and former Olympic marksman takes her statement very literally. He begins shooting various carefully selected people to draw attention to the issue.
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