Overview
- The Danish black comedy from writer-director Anders Thomas Jensen reaches German theaters on December 25 following its festival bow.
- Mads Mikkelsen stars as Manfred alongside Nikolaj Lie Kaas and Nicolas Bro in his sixth feature collaboration with Jensen.
- The plot centers on two brothers: an ex-con chasing buried loot and a younger sibling who adopts the identity “John.”
- Critics at Venice responded largely positively, and the film has sold more than 600,000 tickets in Denmark.
- Recent interviews address provocative Holocaust allusions in the film, with Mikkelsen emphasizing it does not seek to trivialize the subject.