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A Second Chance

Original Title: En chance til
Director: Susanne Bier
Denmark | Danish, Swedish
2014 | 105min.
Subtitles: Arabic and English
Format: DCP
Theme: A
18+How far are decent people willing to go when tragedy blurs the line between just and unjust? In A Second Chance, director Susanne Bier and screenwriter Anders Thomas Jensen have crafted another startling yet moving drama that compels the audience to reflect on their own moral values and weigh them heavily against the urge for pragmatism. As in many of their previous films, the subtext explores the distance between being savable and not savable. At what point does redemption become impossible? Is there such a point? Detectives and best friends Andreas (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Game of Thrones) and Simon (Ulrich Thomsen) lead vastly different lives. Andreas has settled down with his beautiful wife and sonwhile Simon, recently divorced,spends most of his waking hours getting drunk at the local strip club. But all that changes when they respond to a domestic dispute and find a junkie couplecaught in a vicious cycle of violence and drugs. It all looks very routine . . . until Andreas discoversthe couple'sinfantson in frightful condition. Bier says, “A Second Chance is an intense personal drama about what happens when vulnerable people are forced into circumstances beyond their control; about how we aren’t as immune to chaos as we like to think; and about the secrets harbored by those closest to us.' —Alissa Simon

Director, Susanne Bier

Academy Award and Golden Globe winning writer/director Susanne Bier was born in Copenhagen and works in Denmark and the US. Among her 15 feature films are: Freud Leaving Home (1991), The One and Only (1999), Open Hearts (2002), Brothers (2004), After the Wedding (2006) and Things We Lost in the Fire (2007). In a Better World (2010), which won both the Oscar and the Golden Globe for Best Foreign Language film; and Love Is All You Need (2012), were both presented at ADFF.

Cast and Crew

Director: Susanne Bier
Cast: Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Ulrich Thomsen, Maria Bonnevie, Nikolaj Lie Kaas, Lykke May Andersen
Production Company: Zentropa, Zentropa International Sweden, FilmFyn, Film i Väst
Sales Contact: TrustNordisk
Music: Johan Söderqvist
Producer: Sisse Graum Jørgensen
Sound Designer: Eddie Simonsen, Anne Jensen
Screenwriter: Anders Thomas Jensen
Editor: Pernille Bech Christensen
Cinematographer: Michael Keith Snyman
Sound: Eddie Simonsen, Ann Jensen
Production Designer: Jacob Sti, Louise Lönborg, Gilles Balabaud