Hijacking
Tobias Lindholm's superb [film] actually grows more chillingly subdued as its nightmare scenario unfolds.
A Hijacking
The cargo ship MV Rozen is heading for harbor when it is hijacked by Somali pirates in the Indian Ocean. Amongst the men on board are the ship’s cook Mikkel (Pilou Asbæk) and the engineer Jan (Roland Møller), who along with the rest of the seamen are taken hostage in a cynical game of life and death. With the demand for a ransom of millions of dollars a psychological drama unfolds between the CEO of the shipping company (Søren Malling) and the pirates.
“A HOSTAGE PROCEDURAL PAR EXCELLENCE, this thriller slowly turns the screws, as days become weeks, and nerves become seriously jangled.” David Fear, Time Out NY
“POWERFUL AND INTENSELY WATCHABLE. A masterful exercise in building tension” – Mark Adams, Screen Daily
“A HOSTAGE PROCEDURAL PAR EXCELLENCE, this thriller slowly turns the screws, as days become weeks, and nerves become seriously jangled.” David Fear, Time Out NY
“POWERFUL AND INTENSELY WATCHABLE. A masterful exercise in building tension” – Mark Adams, Screen Daily
Genre
Drama,
Thriller/Suspense
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Runtime
99
Language
Danish
Director
Tobias Lindholm
Cast
Johan Philip Asbæk,
Søren Malling,
Dar Salim
FEATURED REVIEW
Philip French, Observer [UK]
This excellent Danish thriller, written and directed by the man who scripted The Hunt and Borgen, deals in a subdued manner with the four months of negotiations over a Danish merchantman seized by Somali pirates in the Indian Ocean. Because of his good English the ship's cook (Pilou Asbaek, who ...
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