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A Place Nearby (2000)

A Place Nearby (2000)

Drama

A fiercely penetrating drama about a mother's love for her autistic adult son.

Release Date: 2000, January 21
Directors: Kaspar Rostrup
Countries: Denmark
Production: Det Danske Filminstitut, Nordisk Film Denmark
Cast: Thure Lindhardt, Thomas Bo Larsen, Henning Moritzen, Niels Anders Thorn, Sarah Boberg, Ghita Nørby, Niels Weyde, Niels Skousen, Frits Helmuth, Pia Vieth, Hannah Bjarnhof, Bodil Lindorff

Overview:

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?

Keywords:

autism