Murk | |
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Directed by | Jannik Johansen |
Written by |
Anders Thomas Jensen Jannik Johansen |
Produced by | Thomas Gammeltoft Hanne Palmquist Ole Bendixen Mike Downey Sam Taylor Zorana Piggott Søren Poulsen |
Starring |
Nikolaj Lie Kaas Nicolas Bro |
Cinematography | Rasmus Videbæk |
Edited by | Per K. Kirkegaard |
Music by | Antony Genn |
Production companies |
Film and Music Entertainment Fine & Mellow Productions |
Distributed by | Nordisk Film Biografdistribution |
Release date |
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Running time | 124 minutes |
Countries |
Denmark United Kingdom |
Language | Danish |
Budget | 22,000,000 DKK [1] |
Murk ( Danish: Mørke) / (English: Darkness) is a 2005 Danish horror and psychological thriller film. [2] The film was directed by Jannik Johansen, who wrote the screenplay along with Anders Thomas Jensen. [3] The film stars Nikolaj Lie Kaas and Nicolas Bro. [4]
Julie, a wheelchair-user, is said to have committed suicide on her wedding night. Her brother Jacob, who is a journalist, follows her ex-fiance to the Danish village of Mørke. Upon meeting him, Jacob discovers that he is going to marry another handicapped woman. Upon these revelations, Jacob investigates whether Julie's ex-fiance is murdering women who are handicapped. [5]
The film was screened at the Edinburgh International Film Festival on 19 August 2005 [6] and on 23 August 2005 at the Copenhagen International Film Festival. The film was released in Denmark on 7 October 2005. [7]
Bodil Awards - 2006
Robert Festival - 2006
Marcel Sarmiento and Gadi Harel directed the American adaptation of the film entitled Merciless. [8] The Gold Circle Films project was rewritten in late December 2009 by Ed Dougherty [9] and was released in 2011. [10]