A Place Nearby

A Place Nearby

100 mins | Drama | Jan. 21, 2000

The city is gasping for air in the scorching summer heat; everyone is under suspicion; a persistent detective superintendent is burrowing for the truth. A fiercely penetrating drama about a mother's love for her autistic adult son, who is suspected of murdering a local girl. The mother knows her son could have committed the murder, but she conceals her knowledge, and gradually becomes entangled in a thicket of lies. How far is she prepared to go to protect her son who is helpless in so many ways? Does she have it within her to give up the only person she loves?

A Place Nearby

100 mins | Drama | Jan. 21, 2000

A Place Nearby
The city is gasping for air in the scorching summer heat; everyone is under suspicion; a persistent detective superintendent is burrowing for the truth. A fiercely penetrating drama about a mother's love for her autistic adult son, who is suspected of murdering a local girl. The mother knows her son could have committed the murder, but she conceals her knowledge, and gradually becomes entangled in a thicket of lies. How far is she prepared to go to protect her son who is helpless in so many ways? Does she have it within her to give up the only person she loves?
IMDb rating 6.1
Producers Det Danske Filminstitut, Nordisk Film
Original title Her i nærheden
Directors Kaspar Rostrup
Writers Kaspar Rostrup

Cast

Ghita Nørby

as Fru Nielsen

Thure Lindhardt

as Brian

Frits Helmuth

as Jespersen

Henning Moritzen

as Baronen

Bodil Lindorff

as Posekonen

Magnus Stahl Jacobsen

as Lille Brian

Hannah Bjarnhof

as Sarons Rose

Sarah Boberg

as Ung kvinde

Thomas Bo Larsen

as Ung mand

Pia Vieth

as Pædagogen

Niels Anders Thorn

as Jacinskij

Niels Weyde

as 1. Læge

Niels Skousen

as 2. Læge