In Order of Disappearance (2014)
Director
Hans Petter Moland
Main cast
Stellan Skarsgård; Bruno Ganz; Kristofer Hivju; Jakob Oftebro; Pål Sverre Valheim Hagen
Genres
Thriller, Action, Comedy, Crime
Description
Upstanding community leader Nils (Stellan SkarsgÃ¥rd) has just won an award for "Citizen of the Year" when he learns the news that his son has died of a heroin overdose. Suspecting foul play, Nils begins to investigate, and soon finds himself at the center of an escalating underworld gang war between Serbian drug dealers and a sociopathic criminal mastermind known only as âThe Count.â Hans Petter Molandâs action-thriller is an entertaining and intelligent black comedy set in the dead of frozen Norwegian winter. In English, Norwegian, and Swedish with English subtitles.
Hans Petter Moland
Main cast
Stellan Skarsgård; Bruno Ganz; Kristofer Hivju; Jakob Oftebro; Pål Sverre Valheim Hagen
Genres
Thriller, Action, Comedy, Crime
Description
Upstanding community leader Nils (Stellan SkarsgÃ¥rd) has just won an award for "Citizen of the Year" when he learns the news that his son has died of a heroin overdose. Suspecting foul play, Nils begins to investigate, and soon finds himself at the center of an escalating underworld gang war between Serbian drug dealers and a sociopathic criminal mastermind known only as âThe Count.â Hans Petter Molandâs action-thriller is an entertaining and intelligent black comedy set in the dead of frozen Norwegian winter. In English, Norwegian, and Swedish with English subtitles.
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