The Candidate / Kandidaten

Trailer for the Danish film Kandidaten. Danish with English subtitles. Here is another Danish film scheduled for an American remake. Check out the original.

Written by Stefan Jaworski and directed by Kasper Barfoed. With performances from Nikolaj Lie Kaas, Ulf Pilgaard, Laura Christensen, Tuva Novotny, David Dencik, and Kim Bodnia.

Jonas Bechmann, a defense attorney, is a man of the system. Until the day he himself is accused of murder. Taking matters into his own hands, he throws himself into the hunt for a group of blackmailers who threaten to expose him as the killer. But nothing is what it appears to be, and the blackmail links back to his father's death under mysterious circumstances a year and a half earlier. Synopsis written by Danish Film Institute.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• Thriller
• murder
• intrigue
• noir