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A Place Nearby

A Place Nearby

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Status

Released

Release Date

Jan 21, 2000

Runtime

1h 40m

Genres

Drama

User Score

51%

Original Title

Her i nærheden

Production Companies

Det Danske Filminstitut, Nordisk Film Denmark

Director

Kaspar Rostrup

Description

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?