A SECOND CHANCE / DRUGA ŠANSA

EN CHANCE TIL

Side program (Out of Competition) > Viking invasion

Two police officers, Andreas and Simon, live very different lives. Where Andreas enjoys life with his beautiful wife and newborn child, Simon calms his pain from a broken marriage by going to strip clubs and getting drunk. A routine task takes an unexpected turn when they are called out to the home of a junkie-couple where Andreas finds a neglected baby. A family tragedy, the loss of their child, forces the otherwise upstanding Andreas to commit an act that sends him heading for the abyss, and leaves it up to Simon to rectify the situation.

Susanne Bier was born in 1960. and grew up in a Jewish family in Copenhagen. She studied art at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and architecture at the Architectural Association in London before she graduated from The Danish Film School in 1987. “After the Wedding” from 2006. earned Bier an Oscar nomination for Best Foreign Language Film and her subsequent film “Things We Lost in the Fire”, with Halle Berry, David Duchovny and Benicio del Toro in the leading roles, was another critical and commercial success. But it was “In a Better World” from 2011. that conclusively established Bier as an international star director. The film won both a Golden Globe and an Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film in 2011.