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Inspired by the true story of the largest heist in Denmark’s history, The Quiet Ones is a thrilling heist film as well as a tale about desperation and perseverance. Directed by Frederik Louis Hviid and written by Anders Frithiof August, they

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In 2008, a group of men from Denmark and across Europe pull off the biggest heist of all time on Danish soil. Kasper, a boxer with few chances left in life, is offered the opportunity to plan the robbery by its foreign initiators. At the risk of losing his family and everything that matters to him, he takes on the challenge in a bid to break all records and secure his place in the history books.

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Chicago – Patrick McDonald of HollywoodChicago.com appears on “The Morning Mess” with Dan Baker for Wbgr-fm on February 20th, 2025, reviewing “The Quiet Ones,” a based-on-truth story about one of the biggest robberies in Denmark’s history. In select theaters on February 21st.

The action centers on Kasper (Gustav Giese), a charismatic boxer who’s reluctant to acknowledge that his true talents lie in criminal pursuits. He is approached by Slimani (Reda Kateb) to plan the robbery … of a Danish cash depot … and they get together the requisite team to figure out how to proceed and get past the guards, including the enigmatic Maria (Amanda Collin). Even as they doubt and bicker with each other, the plan Is brought into action on a fateful night in Denmark.

“The Quiet Ones” is in theaters on February 21st. Featuring Gustav Giese, Reda Kaleb and Amanda Collin. Written by Anders Frithiof August. Directed by Frederik Louis Hviid.

Traditional heist thriller tropes are tossed out the window in The Quiet Ones, director Frederik Louis Hviid’s compelling yet flawed caper that purposely cooks at a slow boil. The story is based on the head-scratching, real-life events that took place in Denmark in 2008 when 25 men from across Europe teamed up and decided to commit the biggest robbery the country has ever seen. Some aspects of this outing have been dramatized, but you can’t deny the unbelievable lengths these men went to in order to pull off an elaborate and intricate heist.

But there’s a lost opportunity here to explore some of the film’s key characters in-depth. That makes for a kind of slow-moving (albeit effective) film that could have been even better with additional context. Instead, the director and screenwriter Anders Frithiof August allows the audience to fill in some of the blanks and arrive at...

It’s quiet on the indie front. Oscar contenders linger in theaters ahead of the March 2 Academy Awards ceremony that will close the book on 2024. The Indie Spirits unspool tomorrow. The Berlinale, with prizes to be handed out Sunday — along with Sundance last month and SXSW next — are planting cinema’s new crop of independents.

Neon is out with horror The Monkey, which appears to be scaling the heights in wide release. Anora is still on screens. A24’s The Brutalist continues its run.

Relative newcomer Universal Language by Matthew Rankin, from Oscilloscope, expands to 24 screens from two last weekend, adding runs in the New York and Los Angeles area along with Chicago, San Francisco, Seattle and Austin. The Cannes audience award-winner grossed $51k its first week at two theaters.

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In 2008, a band of European criminals executed what would become Denmark's most lucrative heist. Frederik Louis Hviid's The Quiet Ones recounts the event as a steely thriller, from blueprint planning stages to eventual incarceration. Anders Frithiof August's screenplay contemplates the group's motivations, financial hardships, and operational challenges concerning comparable smash-and-grab flicks, which begs the question of autobiography versus entertainment. Neither approach is incorrect, yet Hviid's gritty recreation gets stuck in auto-entertainment limbo. The Quiet Ones checks its genre boxes, close calls and all, but cannot sustain the surveillance tension and adrenaline rushes accompanying top-tier robbery classics.

Editor’s Note: This review was originally published during the 2024 Toronto International Film Festival. Magnet releases “The Quiet Ones” in theaters on February 21, 2025.

There are fun heist movies and there are serious heist movies, and Frederik Louis Hviid’s skeletal but gripping “The Quiet Ones” — based on the biggest Danish robbery ever committed — immediately and unambiguously identifies itself as the latter. It starts in Sweden in 2006, where we ride along with two security guards inside an armored truck as they make an early morning cash delivery. She’s a battle-tested veteran who’s seen it all, he’s a rookie with a new child at home, and both of them will be shot to death within minutes when the latter tries to flee the gang of militarized thieves who ambush their vehicle.

These criminals are not fucking around, and when they resurface in Copenhagen two years later with an eye...

The biggest robbery in Danish history gets the big-screen treatment in “The Quiet Ones,” a somber piece whose chronicle from a heist’s inception to its disastrous (for the perps) aftermath has stirred comparisons to Michael Mann’s “Heat” 30 years ago. This well-cast and -crafted thriller does echo that film in some respects, albeit without the arresting style and more vivid characters that lent it near-mythic resonance. By contrast, ”Enforcement” co-director Frederik Louis Hviid’s second feature is an absorbing true-crime tale that readily holds attention for two hours, while lacking the deeper emotional involvement to linger in the mind long afterward. After six months on the festival circuit, Magnet is releasing the film to U.S. theaters and On Demand platforms on February 21st.

An opening sequence punchier than most of what follows depicts an armored-car stickup in 2007 Gothenburg, Sweden, that ends in coldblooded murder and no monetary haul.

Frederik Louis Hviid’s The Quiet Ones is a reminder of the simple pleasures of a caper film with ice in its veins, populated with men whose fortitude predisposes them to pulling off a big job. In the case of this film, the job is a real one that occurred in 2008 amid the global economic collapse, and the 71 million kroner take made it the biggest robbery in the history of Denmark. The film’s staunch commitment to verisimilitude is its greatest strength, with Hviid’s patient, subdued approach to the material crystallizing the life-or-death stakes of the heist.

At the center of the operation are its two tight-lipped, meticulous masterminds: wannabe boxer Kasper (Gustav Dyekjær Giese) and his slick, mustachioed Moroccan friend Slimani (Reda Kateb). Throughout the film, we witness the lengths that the two men and their accomplices go to in order to test the viability of their plans.

In a tough Nordic market that is slowing recovering from the downfall of Viaplay and streamers scaling back on commissions, Miso Film, the Fremantle-owned Nordic powerhouse behind Tobias Lindholm’s “The Investigation” and “Those Who Kill,” isn’t just hanging in there; it’s thriving.

The banner is still helmed by its founding duo Peter Bose and Jonas Allen, who have produced a flurry of iconic series, including “Beck” and “Wallander,” as well as “Those Who Kill,” “Dicte” and “1864.” They’re now celebrating Miso Film’s 20th anniversary with a packed slate of high-end shows and films featuring top Scandinavian talent.

Miso recently premiered Tomas Alfredson’s “Faithless,” an adaptation of Ingmar Bergman’s movie, in competition at Toronto Film Festival, and they’re now six-episode series based on Linn Ullmann’s bestselling novel “The Cold Song” and “Royal Blood,” a sprawling historical project set in 1807 when royal...

Premiering at TIFF earlier this fall, Frederik Louis Hviid’s thriller The Quiet Ones captures the tale of the group that pulled off the largest heist in Danish history back in 2008. Scripted by Anders Frithiof August and starring Reda Kateb, Gustav Giese, and Amanda Collin, Magnet Releasing picked it up for a February 21 release in U.S. theaters and on digital and now the new trailer has arrived.

Here’s the synopsis: “In 2008, a group of men from Denmark and across Europe pulled off the biggest heist of all time on Danish soil. Kasper, a boxer with few chances left in life, is offered the opportunity to plan the robbery by its foreign initiators. At the risk of losing his family and everything that matters to him, he takes on the challenge in a bid to break all records and secure his place in the history books.”

Jared Mobarak said in his TIFF review,...

Exclusive: Danish heist pic The Quiet Ones, which debuted at the 2024 Toronto International Film Festival, is set for a February 21 release in the U.S. via Magnolia’s Magnet label.

The film is based on the real life story of the largest heist in Danish history. Starring are Gustav Giese, Reda Kateb (Django) and Amanda Collin (Raised By Wolves).

The synopsis reads: “In 2008, a group of men from Denmark and across Europe pulled off the biggest heist of all time on Danish soil. Kasper, a boxer with few chances left in life, is offered the opportunity to plan the robbery by its foreign initiators. At the risk of losing his family and everything that matters to him, he takes on the challenge in a bid to break all records and secure his place in the history books.”

Producers are Kasper Dissing of Zentropa (Another Round) and Thomas Kristensen. Frederik Louis Hviid...

Frederik Louis Hviid’s film The Quiet Ones tells the riveting true story of the largest robbery ever committed in Denmark. The movie premiered at the prestigious Toronto International Film Festival in 2024. At its center is Kasper, a boxer struggling to find success in the ring.

When an opportunity for a massive heist arises, planned by the cunning Slimani, Kasper finds himself drawn into executing the most audacious criminal plan Denmark has ever seen. Opposing them is Maria, a security guard determined to prevent the criminals from succeeding.

The real-life robbery of 2008 that inspired the movie was nothing short of spectacular. Over ten million dollars was stolen from a cash transport company in Copenhagen. Fourteen men were ultimately arrested and charged. It stunned the nation and captured the attention of the world.

Now Hviid, working from a script by Anders Frithiof August, brings this dramatic crime saga to the big screen.

When Kasper (Gustav Dyekjær Giese) learns his brother-in-law wants him to speak with a Moroccan friend, he knows what that conversation will entail. It probably wasn’t long ago that he’d jump at the chance, but he’s since found other means with which to make his wife and daughter proud. As long as there’s a shot at the Danish boxing title, his focus must remain on it. Train. Fight. Win. He knows himself too well to risk distractions because the moment he hears what Slimani (Reda Kateb) has planned, Kasper will want nothing more than to find the best way to get it done. And if his mind starts drifting towards a lucrative payday, he’ll stand zero chance in the ring.

Based on the true story of Denmark’s largest-ever heist, The Quiet Ones does well to ensure we know the motivations of each major player from the start.

Master plans, regardless of one’s goals, require a full intensity of focus. Strong start, worthy objective, consistent follow-through: these are the qualities that ensure success, whether you’re making a great movie or, say, planning the biggest heist in Danish history.

Director Frederik Louis Hviid wants to give us that great movie about that huge heist. But like his hapless antiheroes, he’s made the fatal mistake of skipping a few essential steps.

It’s not that there isn’t a promising story here: He was inspired by a genuinely outrageous robbery in 2008. But inspiration alone won’t make anyone rich. And he and screenwriter Anders Frithiof August are simply missing too much: a proper blueprint, a satisfying payoff, even villains worth rooting for.

We open on a bank raid that goes wrong, in shockingly brutal and even heartbreaking fashion. It’s a daringly dark start, suggesting that August...

The Toronto International Film Festival’s Discovery sidebar is the festival’s launchpad for emerging directors, and just a few in its alumni stable include the likes of Alfonso Cuarón, Yorgos Lanthimos, Christopher Nolan, Barry Jenkins, Maren Ade, and Emma Seligman.

A filmmaker to watch this year is Danish director Frederik Louis Hviid with “The Quiet Ones,” a true-story heist thriller debuting in the Discovery section alongside films like Durga Chew-Bose’s “Bonjour Tristesse” with Chloë Sevigny. “The Quiet Ones” is inspired by a real crime that took place in 2008 amid Europe’s swelling financial crisis, and IndieWire shares the exclusive trailer for the film below.

TIFF’s programming notes on “The Quiet Ones” compare Hviid’s first solo directing feature to crime thrillers from the likes of Jules Dassin, William Friedkin, and Michael Mann. “Working with a larger canvas and benefitting from Anders Frithiof August’s tightly written screenplay...

TrustNordisk has signed key deals on Frederik Louis Hviid’s upcoming action feature The Quiet Ones.

The film has sold to the US (Magnolia Pictures), Germany (Plaion) and South Korea (PoongKyong Sori).

Inspired by true events, Hviid’s film is set after the 2008 financial crisis, and follows a group of Danish and European men planning to commit the largest robbery ever on Danish soil.

It is currently in post-production, produced by Kasper Dissing for Zentropa Entertainment, with a script by Anders Frithiof August. Reda Kateb, Gustav Giese and Amanda Collin lead the cast.

Co-producers are Lizette Jonjic and Jean-Christophe Reymond,...

Bille August, the two-time Palme d’Or-winning director, found his creative match with the former Queen of Denmark, Margrethe II, who reinvented herself as a detail-oriented costume designer on his hit Netflix film “Ehrengard: The Art of Seduction.”

The film, which took a decade to bring to life, is nominated for three Robert Awards, the Danish equivalent to the Oscars. A playful royal scandal set in the early 19th century, “Ehrengard: The Art of Seduction” was penned by Anders August and based on a 1963 novella by Karen Blixen, the Danish baroness who was played by Meryl Streep in “Out of Africa.” The film revolves around Cazotte, a young portrait painter who considers himself an expert on love matters and is challenged by the Grand Duchess to seduce a young woman, as well as help her secure an heir.

Margrethe II, who just stepped down from her throne citing health reasons,...

Prolific Danish writer-director Anders Thomas Jensen (Riders of Justice, Adams Apples, Men & Chicken), is dipping back into his deep well of dark comedy for his upcoming film, Back to Reality.

The film is described as a drama/crime comedy mashup involving a bank robbery, Anker, who gets released after a jail stint for a heist from which the money was never recovered. The only one who knows where the loot is buried is Anker’s brother Manfred, but the shock of his childhood trauma has sent him fleeing to an alter ego who has no recollection of the money. Hoping to unlock Manfred’s memory, the brothers travel to their childhood home and start digging, physically and psychologically. Back to Reality is currently in preproduction and in the final phase of financing.

No cast has been confirmed but Jensen is a frequent collaboration with Danish star Mads Mikkelsen, the...

‘Back To Reality’ is a dark comedy from writer-director Anders Thomas Jensen.

TrustNordisk has acquired international sales rights to two upcoming features from Denmark’s Zentropa, including a new film from acclaimed comedy filmmaker Anders Thomas Jensen.

Jensen’s Back To Reality (working title) is a dark comedy, about a bank robber recently released from jail, who must unlock his traumatised brother’s memory to recover stolen loot.

Zentropa is producing the title, which is at script stage with no cast yet attached; Nordisk Film Distribution will release the film in Scandinavia. Producers are Sisse Graum Jorgensen and Sidsel Hybschmann for Zentropa,...

A new political thriller is in the works. Deadline reports Red Arrow Entertainment Group is teaming up with Scandinavian group Mtg Studios for a new series called Embassy Down.From Anders Frithiof August, the drama follows the consequences of a terrorist attack at the United States embassy in Copenhagen. The series will be filmed predominantly in English and explore "the complex personal relationships between hostage and captor inside the besieged embassy, and the intricate political maneuverings outside."Read More…...

Scandinavian digital entertainment group Mtg Studios is partnering with Red Arrow International to co-produce international drama series Embassy Down. Created and written by hot Danish scribe Anders Frithiof August (The Legacy, Follow The Money), the eight-part political thriller will be made mainly in English with local languages incorporated. It’s slotted to premiere in the Nordics in 2018 on Mtg's video streaming service Viaplay. Red Arrow is leading the co-financing…...

Project comes from Land Of Mine’s producer and writer duo.

Danish director Asger Leth (Man On A Ledge) will direct the timely, politically-minded Us-set drama White Dog, from a story by Land Of Mine writer/director Martin Zandvliet.

Nordisk’s Mikael Rieks, who also produced the likely Oscar-contender Land Of Mine, will produce. Zandvliet co-wrote the script with Anders August.

The film is described as “an eye-level portrait of two skinhead brothers at a point in their lives where their paths are pointed in very different directions.”

The team expects to shoot the film in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

“The film will take place in Pittsburgh, USA, but it is just as easily a portrait of a time where populist politicians everywhere are appealing to the worst in us,” said Asger Leth, whose credits also include Ghosts Of Cite Soleil.

Meanwhile, Zandvliet is currently in pre-production in Japan on his English-language debut The Outsider starring Jared Leto.

“I...

Other nominees include A War, The Idealist, Summer of ‘92, Men & Chicken and The Shamer’s Daughter; Summer of ‘92 leads critics’ Bodil nominees.

Toronto hit Land of Mine by Martin Zandvliet leads the nominations for the Danish Film Academy’s Robert Awards, which will be bestowed on Feb 7.

Land of Mine, about German teenagers forced to clear mines from Danish beaches after the Second World War, garnered 14 nominations.

Other nominees include Tobias Lindholm’s Oscar-shortlisted A War, Christina Rosendahl’s The Idealist, Kasper Barfoed’s Summer of ’92, Anders Thomas Jensen’s Men & Chicken as well as Kenneth Kainz’ The Shamer’s Daughter.

The nominees for best feature film are The Idealist, Land of Mine, Men & Chicken, Summer of ’92 and A War.

The best director race includes Rosendahl, Zandvliet, Lindholm, Michael Noer for Key House Mirror and newcomer May el-Toukhy for Long Story Short.

Best Original Screenplay nominees are Summer of ‘92 (Anders August & Kasper Barfoed); Men & Chicken (Anders Thomas Jensen); Land...

Exclusive: Kaspar Barfoed will direct the story of the underdog Danish football team that became Euro 1992 champions.

Ulrich Thomsen is set to star as Danish national football team coach Richard Moller Nielsen in Summer of ’92.

Kris Thykier’s London-based PeaPie Films and Meta Louise Foldager’s Copenhagen-based Meta Film are producing.

HanWay handles international sales excluding Scandinavia.

Kasper Barfoed will direct the story based on a script he wrote alongside Anders Frithiof August. The film tells the story of the underdog Danish national football team thatbecame the surprise Euro 1992 champions.

“I am extremely pleased that we have Ulrich Thomsen in the role of Richard Møller Nielsen,” said Barfoed. “Ulrich is one of the best actors we’ve ever had in Denmark and this role will show sides of him we have not seen before.

“Richard Moller contained warmth, humour, ambition and single-mindedness, and it takes a brave actor to embrace this role. I am also...

Award-winning Danish director behind R and Nordvest to set new feature around a love story at an old people’s home.

Danish director Michael Noer, who set R in a prison and Nordvest in the criminal underworld, has chosen an old people’s home for the setting of his new feature Key House Mirror (Nøgle Hus Spejl).

The film will shoot from late next month for Nordisk Film Production and is being lined up to premiere in 2015.

Ghita Nørby – the grand lady of Danish film and stage – will star as a 76-year-old woman who moves into the home with her sick husband, only to meet the love of her life played by 80-year-old Swedish actor Sven Wollter.

Noer came up with the story for Danish writer Anders Frithiof August to script, and the Danish Film Institute has contributed $1.4m (Dkk 7.5m) for the Tomas Radoor and René Ezra production for Nordisk in collaboration with Danish pubcaster Dr TV.

“I...

London – Producer Kris Thykier, whose credits include Kick-Ass and Madonna's W.E., has united with Melancholia producer Meta Foldager, to bring the story of the Danish victory at the 1992 UEFA European soccer championships to the big screen. Thykier's Peapie Films is partnering with Denmark's Meta Films to produce the movie written by Anders August (Applause) for director Kasper Barfoed (The Candidate). August's script details the story of the Danish football squad and how an underdog team who had failed to even qualify for the tournament, went on to win against all odds after replacing war torn Yugoslavia in

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Directed by Ole Christian Madsen

Screenplay by Ole Christian Madsen and Anders Frithiof August

2011, Denmark

Festival favourite Ole Christian Madsen (Flame and Citroen) returns to the Toronto International Film festival with Superclasico : a measured, fun, and thoughtful comedy-drama crowd-pleaser which suggests that divorce doesn’t always signal just the end of a doomed relationship, but also some possible benefits. Part of the Contemporary World Cinema programme, Madsen’s Danish comedy finds Christian (as played by Anders W. Berthelsen from Italian for Beginners) making the high stakes trek from Copenhagen to Bueno Aires with his son Oscar to try and win back his mercurial and career-driven wife Anna (Paprika Steen from 1998′s The Celebration) who has recently served him papers and ran off to be with an infamous and successful footballer Juan Diaz (Sebastian Estevanez). Jamie Morton plays their silent and sullen, Kierkegard-reading son Oscar stuck in the middle...

Reviewed by Amy R. Handler

(January 2011)

Directed by: Martin Zandvliet

Written by: Martin Zandvliet and Anders Frithiof August

Starring: Paprika Steen, Michael Falch, Sara-Marie Maltha, Shanti Roni, Otto Leonardo Steen Rieks and Noel Koch-Søfeldt

Many filmmakers have explored the inner world of performers, but few do it as masterfully as Danish director Martin Zandvliet (“Angels of Brooklyn”). With actress extraordinaire Paprika Steen (“Okay”) in the lead, his newest feat “Applause” is nothing short of remarkable.

Writing his story from the perspective of Thea Barfoed (Steen), a divorced actress and recovering alcoholic, Zandvliet interweaves scenes of Edward Albee’s “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” into his narrative. Fascinating and at the same time disorienting, this seesawing between Thea’s stage role and the reality of her life offers the viewer an unobstructed lens into Thea’s psyche.

In both stories, Thea lives inside the hell of a crumbled marriage, and...

The 12th edition of the Mumbai Film Festival by Mami (Mumbai Academy of Moving Image) is scheduled to take place from Oct 21 to Oct 28 in Mumbai. Following is the complete list of all the films that are going to be premiered for the first time ever at the festival: 1. The Way Home - Biju Kumar World Premiere Synopsis - The plot revolves around a doctor with a haunting past. Now working at a Prison Hospital, the Doctor is assigned the case of a woman a surviving member from a notorious terrorist group. .Before dying she entrusts him to find her five-year-old son and unite him with his father who is the head of terrorist group. Finding the boy from a village the Doctor and child set out on a journey to find his father. The journey is happening through the contemporary and mysterious path of the terrorist network in the vast country with many incidents.

The 12th edition of the Mumbai Film Festival by Mami (Mumbai Academy of Moving Image) is scheduled to take place from Oct 21 to Oct 28 in Mumbai. Following is the complete list of all the films that are going to be premiered for the first time ever at the festival: 1. The Way Home - Biju Kumar World Premiere Synopsis - The plot revolves around a doctor with a haunting past. Now working at a Prison Hospital, the Doctor is assigned the case of a woman a surviving member from a notorious terrorist group. .Before dying she entrusts him to find her five-year-old son and unite him with his father who is the head of terrorist group. Finding the boy from a village the Doctor and child set out on a journey to find his father. The journey is happening through the contemporary and mysterious path of the terrorist network in the vast country with many incidents.