Mikkel Norgaard The Keeper Of The Lost Causes

Cast: Nikolaj lie Kaas, Fares Fares, Sonja Richter, Mikkel Bo
Director: Mikkel Norgaard
Rated: MA
Running Time: 93 minutes

Synopsis: This is the first thrilling adaptation of the bestselling Department Q crime novel series by Jussi Adler-Olsen. Carl Mørck (The Killing) is a disgraced detective who is reassigned to the newly created Department Q, a basement-bound job filing cold cases, and allocated a new assistant, Assad, a smart young cop. Always one to go against orders, Mørck throws them headlong into the mystery of a missing politician's disappearance five years earlier. Believing the case to be unsolved, they embark on a dangerous journey that will lead them into the dark underworld of Copenhagen.

The Keeper Of The Lost Causes
Release Date: July 31st, 2014


Director's Comments

This is a story about the dark side of life, what happens if you cannot let go of the past, when it devours you from within. This is, on the surface, a story about a woman who disappeared five years ago and the man who has to find out what happened. But underneath it all, this is a story of how humans deal with the horrific things that happen throughout life, being able to move forward from that or not. This is a thriller, and it will explore what it means to be human in an old-fashioned way. It explores our fear, guilt, shame, and how to overcome them.

In Denmark, the dogma wave has had a big influence on our way of telling stories, going for a realistic expression in an almost documentary style. With this film I want to gain control of the images as the most powerful tool to create a universe. I want to guide the audience through the darkness of the story and back into the light with the camera, the sound and the music. What Hitchcock would call 'pure cinema". But I want to do this in a Europena way. Going for a clear cinematic Point Of View in the story-telling. This is a voyage into mankind. The film will be larger than Life, showing the most horrifying story as a mirror of the life we all live.
-Mikkel Nørgaard

Scriptwriter's Biography

Nikolaj Arcel graduated from the National Film School of Denmark in 2001. Arcel has written a large number of screenplays including the adapted screenplay for the first film in the highly acclaimed Millennium-trilogy, The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo (2009). The script based on the bestselling book by Stieg Larsson earned him a BAFTA-nomination in 2011. His feature film A Royal Affair, which he both wrote and directed, won the Silver Bear for best script at Berlin International Film Festival in 2012 and was nominated for an Academy Award in the Best Foreign Language Film category the same year.

About the Books

The book The Keeper Of The Lost Causes by Jussi Adler-Olsen was published in 2007 and is so far followed by four books in the series about Department Q. The books have been awarded with numerous prizes and have been placed on several bestseller lists both nationally and internationally. In October 2012, Jussi Adler-Olsen received the Barry Award in the US for Best Novel of the Year and in August 2012 The Keeper Of The Lost Causes made it to the New York times bestseller list. The books in the series have been sold to more than 35 countries and sold in more than 7 million copies worldwide.

 

The Keeper Of The Lost Causes
Release Date: July 31st, 2014