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September 2014
13 mins
TMDB
6.9
A foreign woman in a burqa brings her young son to a Copenhagen police station to file a complaint against her abusive husband, but the translator assigned to her seems unwilling to convey the true meaning of her words. A tense, diamond-hard film about cultural isolation and bureaucratic ignorance.
Cast
Nanna Bøttcher
Police woman
Yusuf Kamal El-Ali
Son
Amira Helene Larsen
Translator
Zeinab Rahal
Mother
Alexandre Willaume
Policeman
Peter Fog Jensen
Policeman in office
Maria Yang-Busch
Woman in corridor
