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The story of Danish photographer Daniel Rye, who was captured by ISIS in Syria in 2013 and held hostage for 398 days.The story of Danish photographer Daniel Rye, who was captured by ISIS in Syria in 2013 and held hostage for 398 days.The story of Danish photographer Daniel Rye, who was captured by ISIS in Syria in 2013 and held hostage for 398 days.
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- Awards
- 6 wins & 16 nominations total
Christiane Gjellerup Koch
- Susanne
- (as Christiane G. Koch)
Andrea Heick Gadeberg
- Christina
- (as Andrea Gadeberg)
Samuel Brafman-Moutier
- Jeremy
- (as Samuel Brafman)
Illyès Salah
- Ayoub
- (as Illyes Salah)
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Strong lead character performance
Esben Smed is performing extremely well and strong in the role as Daniel.
Fantastic dramatisation of actual events.
Exiting and thrilling movie
Its a movie for grown up adults.
Even though its contain some kind of actionscenes, its a drama.
Deserving more views worldwide
I didn't know the story of Daniel going into this and boy was i filled with surprised and disturbing images rodof the senseless brutality of isis. Do yourself a favour, share this movie with your friends because the world needs to know.
This is a really good film about an absolutely awful thing.
This won't be an easy watch, in fact, some scenes are just too horrifying to even watch, because we know what happens to some of the poor souls who are held hostage with Daniel. I still cannot comprehend how humans can be so horrible to their fellow man, I suppose that is the point, they saw them as subhuman purely based on their nationality.
This film is excellently acted, the lead actor who plays Daniel is just superb, you can feel every single emotion, you can feel the terror, the hopelessness.
It's one of those films that will stay with you long after, I wonder how one would go on living having gone through such trauma but they do, thankfully, and live to tell the world what happened.
Watch this film.
This film is excellently acted, the lead actor who plays Daniel is just superb, you can feel every single emotion, you can feel the terror, the hopelessness.
It's one of those films that will stay with you long after, I wonder how one would go on living having gone through such trauma but they do, thankfully, and live to tell the world what happened.
Watch this film.
Absorbing...
..drama about the mental and physical torture those poor kidnap victims of Isis had to endure
Well worth watching.
Well worth watching.
Did you know
- TriviaThe title "Ser du månon, Daniel"? ("Do you see the moon, Daniel?") is from the book by Puk Damsgaard Andersen by the same title, where Daniel's mother writes in her diary while he's captive and comforts herself by knowing that they're under the same.
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- Daniel
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- Budget
- DKK 41,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross worldwide
- $57,263
- Runtime
- 2h 18m(138 min)
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 2.39 : 1
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