Movie

Those Who Kill - Shadow of the Past
2012 · 90 min
A grim, methodical Nordic noir that grinds forward through rain-soaked investigation, keeping you uneasy and watchful as old mistakes bleed into fresh horrors.
- Directed by
- Birger Larsen
- Genres
- Crime, Drama, Thriller
- Starring
- Jakob Cedergren, Laura Bach, Lars Mikkelsen
- Overview
- Detective Katrine Ries Jensen and legal psychiatrist Thomas Schaeffer form a special unit at the Copenhagen Police investigating serial killings. A case from Schaeffer’s past crops up. As a young psychologist, he held back from sending a patient, who was manically drawing the details of a traffic accident, to a secure hospital. Now these bloody scenes resurface, enacted as real killings.
- How it feels
- Dark, tense, eerie and melancholic. Measured and needs your attention.
- About
- Crime, obsession, guilt, madness
- Content
- Strong violence. Mild gore, sexual content and language.
- Note
- Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown
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- Directed by
- Birger Larsen
- Genres
- Crime, Drama, Thriller
- Starring
- Jakob Cedergren, Laura Bach, Lars Mikkelsen












