Detective Carl Mork (Ulrich Thomsen) and his cold case department are back in action in this sixth installment for the big screen of the successful novels by Jussi Adler-Olsen and script written by Jakob Weis. The department has to investigate the death of a young girl who was hit by a car, named Alberte. The case that was falsely closed as a traffic accident is reopened when Christian Haabersat (Peter Mygind) , an old friend and colleague of Carl Morck from his years at the police academy, commits suicide in front of the guests at his farewell party, haunted by the memory of Alberte. The killing, officially written up as a traffic accident, has connections to both the local Police precinct and a cult of sun worshipers from where young women have vanished without trace for years. Mørck must solve the case and confront his past to move forward with his fiancée. Along the way, Rose (Sofie Torp) is tasked with finding the connection of some murders to a weird cult. It's not long before she's on the run from those who intend to kill her because of what she knows.
Police thriller in the purest Nordic style with strong suspense, emotion, plot twists, action enough, and including a dark photography. Ulric Thomsen gives a decent acting , he's a prestigious actor with a long career that includes both cinema and TV, such as: The good traitor, Ambassador Kauffman, Face to face series,Brothers, Celebration, , Blacklist and Banshee series, he once again plays the tough investigator Carl Morck. Ulric was already the protagonist of the fifth installment of the saga, on this occasion he has to investigate the death of a girl who was found hit by a car and dead on a tree.
In this sixth installment, the people in charge of giving life to the brave and surly Carl Morck is Ulrich Thomsen and his faithful assistants change, being now played by the unknown: Sofie Torp as Rose and Afshin Firouzi as Assad. This film adapts a successful novel, ¨Den Grænseløse¨, the sixth and best-selling book written by Jussi Adler-Olsen, to the big screen. This procedural thriller is uneven but professionally directed by Ole Christian Madsen and has a script by Jakob Weis, replacing Nikolaj Arcel, who had written the storyline for the four previous novels and adapted the first installment of 'Milennium', another of the most important Nordic sagas in history. Director does it European way, showing sharply in the dark cinematographic approach within the story.
This is the sixth adaptation, most of them concerning a relentless search and murder investigations carried out by the members of the Q Deapartment that take them deep into the undercurrent of corruption, abuse, ambition, greed and malice that hides beneath the surface of the prosperous Scandinavia. The first of sextet starred by the great protagonists Nikolaj Lie Kaas and Fares Fares who signed a four-film deal, matching the number of Department Q novels written by Jussi Adler-Olsen that had been published at the time of filming. The saga is as follows: ¨Kvinden i buret¨ or ¨The Guardian of Lost Causes¨ (2013) by Mikkel Nørgaard with Nikolaj Lie Kaas, Fares Fares, Sonja Richter. ¨Fasandreperne¨ or ¨Pheasant Killers¨ (2014) by Mikkel Norgaard with Nikolaj Lie Kaas, Fares Fares, Pilou Asbæk. ¨Flaskepost fra P¨ or ¨A Conspiracy of Faith¨ (2016) by Hans Petter with Nikolaj Lie Kaas, Fares Fares, Pål Sverre Hagen, Amanda Collin. ¨Diario 64¨ or ¨The Purity of Revenge¨ (2018) by Christoffer Boe with Nikolaj Lie Kaas, Fares Fares, Johanne Louise Schmidt, Søren Pilmark. Despite being extremely succesful both critic and public, author Jussi Adler-Olsen was unhappy with the adaptations of the first four novels of the series and thus entrusted the film rights to the next books to another production company, resulting in the change of cast in this latter: ¨Marco effekten¨ or "The marco effect¨ (2021) by Martin Zandvliet with Ulrich Thomsen as Carl Mørck and Zaki Youssef as Assad.
