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Jun 17, 2016 · Based on the international bestseller, the riveting first film in the Department Q series introduces maverick detective Carl Mørck (Nikolaj Lie Kaas) who, after majorly botching an assignment, is relegated to reviewing cold cases.
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- Mikkel Nørgaard
- Not Rated
Jun 16, 2016 · After a stakeout ignited a brutal moment of violence, he’s been busted down to Department Q, a basement office that handles cold cases.
- Ken Jaworowski
- Mikkel Nørgaard
Jun 16, 2016 · The origin story for Department Q fills a lot of the first film, The Keeper Of Lost Causes, which is also the shortest and weakest of the trilogy. The case involves a popular young...
Department Q: The Keeper of Lost Causes: Directed by Mikkel Nørgaard. With Nikolaj Lie Kaas, Per Scheel Krüger, Troels Lyby, Øyvind B. Fabricius Holm. Police inspector Carl Mørck is put in charge of a department of cold cases, joined only by his assistant Assad.
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- Crime, Drama, Mystery
- Mikkel Nørgaard
- 2016-06-17
- Mercy
- Disgrace
- Redemption
- Guilt
- Buried
- The Hanging Girl
- The Scarred Woman
Released as Mercy in the UK, and as The Keeper of Lost Causes in the US, the first book in the series lays a strong foundation. An operation that went disastrously wrong – leaving one colleague shot dead and another, Hardy, permanently paralysed – hangs heavily over detective Carl Mørck both professionally and personally. He is quickly established ...
Released as Disgrace in the UK and as The Absent One in the US, the second book sees the addition of Rose Knudsen to the Department Q team. Mørck cracks open a new case, this time the murder of a brother and sister in the family home. The suspects here are a group of privately educated upper crust types, who turn out to be the worst examples of whi...
Released as Redemption in the UK and as A Conspiracy of Faith in the US, book three proves that there’s nothing more romantic than a message in a bottle, unless it’s a harrowing cry for help written in blood by a captive child. After the bottle is discovered by British sailors, it eventually finds its way to Deptartment Q. When Rose fails to show u...
Published as Guilt in the UK and as The Purity of Vengeance in the US, book four reminds us of the old adage about revenge being a dish best served cold. The wronged party here is Nete Hermansen, a woman permanently damaged in her youth back in the 1950s, who later carries out her own form of vigilante justice. Her target is an arrogant group of eu...
Released as Buried in the UK and as The Marco Effect in the US, the fifth Department Q book lands us in the underbelly of Copenhagen where a group of Romani youth wander the streets looking for a mark to pickpocket. Meanwhile, 5,000 miles away an aid worker in Africa texts a final coded message before being executed by a Scandinavian syndicate that...
As seen in Redemption, the theme of religious zeal returns with a new age cult taking centre stage. This time, Carl Mørck and his colleagues take on a case that has stymied a retired policeman for many years: that of a beautiful teenage girl called Alberte Goldschmid. She was struck by a vehicle, throwing her body up into a tree, where she died. Sh...
Released in September 2017 in both the US and UK, The Scarred Woman gives us a lot more insight into the character of Rose, who appeared one day to become Carl Mørck’s assistant and never left. You can read our full review here. The story opens with the corpse of an elderly lady found in circumstances remarkably similar to another case in the Depar...
Though The Keeper of Lost Causes will invariably be compared to The Killing, it is closer in tone to the thoughtfulness of Wallander and the cynicism of French series Spiral and is spiced with the dark violence of Larsson's Millennium trilogy.
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Jun 15, 2016 · Showing 8 Critic Reviews. 80. Total Film. Jun 15, 2016. While the plot toys with credibility, director Mikkel Nørgaard ( Borgen ) conjures a squalid atmosphere – the stuff of real nightmares. This is so grimly compelling that even if you want to look away, you won’t be able to. Read More. By James Mottram FULL REVIEW. 80. The Hollywood Reporter.
