Manslaughter is a 2005

2005 in film

- Highest-grossing films :Please note that following the tradition of the English-language film industry, these are the top-grossing films that were first released in the United States in 2005...

 Danish

Denmark

Denmark is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe. The countries of Denmark and Greenland, as well as the Faroe Islands, constitute the Kingdom of Denmark . It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries, southwest of Sweden and south of Norway, and bordered to the south by Germany. Denmark...

 film written and directed by Per Fly

Per Fly

Per Fly Plejdrup is a Danish film director, generally credited simply as Per Fly. He is married to Danish actress Charlotte Fich. They have the children Anton and Aksel together.-Biography:...

. The film stars Jesper Christensen

Jesper Christensen

Jesper Christensen is a Danish actor. A veteran of European cinema, he has more recently made the transition to English language projects, including The Interpreter and Revelations. He has also appeared as the mysterious villain Mr...

 and Pernilla August

Pernilla August

Pernilla August is a Swedish actress, director and script-writer. Being one of Sweden's leading actresses and a long time collaborator with director Ingmar Bergman, she won the Best Actress Award at the 1992 Cannes Film Festival for her role in his The Best Intentions...

 as well as Fly's wife Charlotte Fich

Charlotte Fich

Charlotte Fich is a Danish stage, film and television actress. She is most often recognized for her role as police officer Ingrid Dahl in the Emmy awarded Danish television series Unit One...

.

Manslaughter won the Nordic Council Film Prize

The Nordic Council Film Prize

The Nordic Council Film Prize is an annual film prize administered by the Nordic Council. The first award was handed outin 2002 to celebrate the Nordic Council's 50th anniversary. Since 2005 the prize has been annual. One winner is chosen from submissions from the five Nordic countries. In 2008,...

 in 2005, multiple awards at the 2006 Bodil Awards

Bodil Awards

The Bodil Awards are the major Danish film awards given by Denmark's National Association of Film Critics . The awards are presented annually at a ceremony in the Imperial Cinema in Copenhagen. Established in 1948, it is one of the oldest film awards in Europe...

 — including Best Actor, Best Film and Best Supporting actress — as well as being nominated for several other major film awards.

The film is part of a triology by Fly about the Danish society. Bænken is about the underclass, Arven

Arven

Arven is a 2003 Danish drama film, directed by Per Fly. It has been titled Inheritance or The Inheritance in English.The Screenplay was written by Kim Leona, Per Fly and Mogens Rukov produced by Ib Tardini, and starred Ulrich Thomsen and Lisa Werlinder.- Cast :- Plot :Christoffer is called back...

about the upperclass and Drabet about the middleclass.