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For My Brother

7.8 / 10

117 minutes

2014-12-08

Danish

DK

Actors :

Elias Munk, Christoffer Jensen, Allan Karlsen, Frank Schiellerup, Oliver Bjørnholdt Spottag, Tina Nørby, Frederik Ingemann Brandt, Lara León, Marie Louise Lund Jensen, Kit Langberg Rasmussen

Description

The two brothers Aske and Bastian live with their father, Lasse, in a world of fear, violence and alcohol but the brothers' strong and close relationship means everything. Aske must serve his father's sexual needs, as well as paying customers and his father's friend, Hans. Aske tries everything to keep his little brother out of it all so that he won't experience the same as himself. But one day Bastian is abused by their father. The brothers choose to move to Norway, far away in the beautiful mountains. Their friendship outshines everything! They are together and far away from their evil father...

Reviews

Reno

Reno

5/16/2024, 3:18:30 PM

> When the home, the safest place isn't safe anymore. Just remember that this is not a film to entertain you, but it is here to open your eyes on the child abuse issue. This is one of the major problems today we're facing around the world. All the governments had taken the strict actions on the matter, yet somewhere without being noticed domestically these things keeps happening. Such a theme w...

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tmdb15214618

6/23/2021, 3:58:09 PM

It's very heartfelt and earnest and occasionally genuinely hard to watch but the problem is that, regardless of whether it's true to reality, the drama and the evil is so cartoonish that it starts to have the opposite of the intended effect on the audience. The camera shaking so much that I had motion sickness 20 minutes into the movie didn't help. This is one of those topics that requires a lot o...