Murk is a 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...

 dark and psychological thriller in a class of nerve-wracking, the film was directed by Jannik Johansen

Jannik Johansen

Jannik Johansen is a Danish film director and screenwriter. He began film-making at Per Holst Film in the late 1980s, thereafter directed and edited television productions and short fiction. He wrote and directed a number of short fiction films, including fiction A Quiet Death, awarded by the...

 who writes also the screenplay alongside with Anders Thomas Jensen

Anders Thomas Jensen

Anders Thomas Jensen is a Danish screenwriter and film director.Jensen won the Oscar for his 1998 film Election Night...

 and in the thriller stars Nikolaj Lie Kaas

Nikolaj Lie Kaas

Nikolaj Lie Kaas is a prominent Danish actor whose career rose in the 1990s and who is still actively working today. He is also the host of the annual Zulu Comedy Galla on Danish TV....

 and Nicolas Bro

Nicolas Bro

Nicolas Bro is a Danish actor born in Copenhagen, Denmark.He has grown up in the family of actors – mother is Danish actress Helle Hertz and father is an actor Christoffer Bro....

.

Plot

The God-forsaken village Mørke in the Danish province can be found on any map, the Journalist Jacob follows his ex-brother-in anchor there, after his wheelchair-using sister Julie has yet been put on the wedding night life. Jacob and his family are stunned, no one can understand her suicide. When he anchors his brother-in Mørke finding out this is again just before the marriage and again the woman sits in a wheelchair. Can it still be a coincidence, or is it the pattern of a mad serial killer who marries women with disabilities and murdered on their wedding night? Jacob finds no peace, with all his strength, he looks for the causes of the death of his sister and risks his own life.

Cast

• Nikolaj Lie Kaas
  Nikolaj Lie Kaas
  Nikolaj Lie Kaas is a prominent Danish actor whose career rose in the 1990s and who is still actively working today. He is also the host of the annual Zulu Comedy Galla on Danish TV....
  
   as Jacob
• Nicolas Bro
  Nicolas Bro
  Nicolas Bro is a Danish actor born in Copenhagen, Denmark.He has grown up in the family of actors – mother is Danish actress Helle Hertz and father is an actor Christoffer Bro....
  
   as Anker
• Lærke Winther Andersen as Hanne
• Laura Drasbæk as Nina
• Lotte Bergstrøm as Julie
• Anne Sophie Byder as Sonja
• Morten Lützhøft as Carl
• Lisbet Lundquist as Caroline
• Hother Bøndorff as Rikkes far
• Katrine Hartmann Nielsen as Rikke Bjerre
• Lars Lunøe as Ka Hjort
• Jørgen Lysemose as Bryllupspianist
• Søren Thomsen as Onkel Svend
• Ane Vinther as Rikkes mor

Release

The film premiered on 19 August 2005 at the Edinburgh International Film Festival

Edinburgh International Film Festival

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, before on 23 August 2005 was part of the Copenhagen International Film Festival and the Danish cinema release was on 7 October 2005.

Remake

The both American directors Marcel Sarmiento and Gadi Harel directed the US Remake of the film entitled Merciless, the Gold Circle Films

Gold Circle Films

Gold Circle Films is an American independent film production company, mainly focusing on horror and romance films, founded in 2000. Titles released by Gold Circle include White Noise, My Big Fat Greek Wedding, The Wedding Date, and The Man From Elysian Fields.-Films:*Double Whammy *The Man From...

project was rewritten in late December 2009 from Ed Dougherty. It is planned with an release in 2011.