Heiners Filmseiten – Deliver Us from Evil (en)

Deliver Us from Evil (Fri os fra det onde)

German title: Befrei uns von dem Bösen
Francaise title: Délivrez-nous du mal
Greek title: Εξαγνισμός του Κακού
Russian title: Избавь нас от лукавого
Original title: Fri os fra det onde

Alternative titles:
Exagnismos tou kakou | Befrei’ uns von dem Bösen

Thriller drama – Sweden, Norway, Denmark
Production year: 2008
Movie length: 97 minutes

Director: Ole Bornedal
Writer: Ole Bornedal
Cinematograph: Dan Laustsen
Music: Dan Laustsen, Stefan Nilsson

Movie description:

A father returns to his old hometown with his young family. Events force him to face the small town’s xenophobia.

Johannes is a successful big city lawyer who has retired to the countryside town in Denmark’s coastal Jutland area where he grew up, taking with him his wife Pernille and their two children Viola and Frederik. There he has taken over the family home that his brother Lars has been unable to afford to renovate. Lars works as truck driver and has a heavy drinking problem. Driving home, Lars is lighting a cigarette and not looking what he is doing when the truck hits and runs over someone. He discovers that this is Anna, the girlfriend of town businessman and his boss Ingvar. Distraught, Lars hides the motorcycle and body off the side of the road. He returns home and pays Alain, a Bosnian refugee, to drive the truck the rest of the way, while he joins his friends in getting drunk, not before he plants bloody leaflets that Anna was carrying in Alain’s coat. When the body is found, suspicion quickly turns on Alain. Johannes rescues Alain and takes him to his home, believing his story that he is innocent. Meanwhile, a deeply distraught Ingvar stirs up a lynch mob and determines to break in and burn the house down unless Johannes hands Alain over. Johannes refuses and prepares to defend himself as they attack.

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