Trivia

Fares Fares, who lives in Sweden, had to learn Danish for the role of Assad.

Nikolaj Lie Kaas and Fares Fares both signed a four-picture contract, matching the number of Department Q novels that had been published at the time of filming.

The first movie in Jussi Adler-Olsen's Q- Series.

Nikolaj Lie Kaas (Carl) and Sonja Richter (Merete) play husband and wife in the third season of The Killing (2007). And also in the Dogme movie Elsker dig for evigt.

The bonus section on the 3-volume DVD set refers to this film as The Woman In The Cage.