¨Diario 64¨ or ¨The Purity of Revenge¨ (2018) by Christoffer Boe displays a good cast with Nikolaj Lie Kaas, Fares Fares, Johanne Louise Schmidt, Søren Pilmark. It's been five years since the first success of the Department Q in "The Keeper of Lost Causes: The cases of the Q Departament" (2013), and only two short years since the hunt for the serial killer in "Redemption¨. In this entry the unpredictable Carl Morck -more intractable and introspective than ever- is once again played by Nikolaj Kaas, while Fares Fares gives life, once again, to his faithful companion of the department, Assad. Behind a thin wall are three mummified corpses around a table with a free seat. Gruff agent Carl Morck and his good assistant Assad will follow the clues of an institution called Sprogo where medical experiments took place. There they try to discover who should occupy the fourth place. These events are eerily laced to a strange facility. It is a truly tragic film about a twisted investigation in which our two protagonists face the most difficult case. Even though the terrors of Sprogø are a closed chapter in Danish history, there are now people claiming the experiments have continued to go on up until today. What happens if you can't let go of the past, if it eats you up inside?. Nothing is forgotten forever!. Based on the best-selling novel of First Department Q!. From the Screenwriter of 'The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo'!. Your last chance at him is the lost causes department!
This is the fourth installment after "Misericordy" , "Desecration" and "Redemption" and it is the turn of this "File 64" in the series of Danish productions based on the crime novels by Jussi Adler-Olsem in which two detectives and a secretary are in charge of investigating, if it arises some relevant fact, files almost closed for years. Christoffer Boe - Golden Camera at the 2003 Cannes Film Festival - directs professionally this thriller that has characteristic elements of the films of the seventies and especially of the Nordic crime novel.
The film that was presented in the official selection at the 2018 Sitges festival, presents in this series the personal and professional relationships of the protagonist police officers, here at a sentimental crossroads. Being well starred by Nikolaj Lie Kaas as deranged and cold detective Carl Mørck , Fares Fares as his faithful helper Assad and Johanne Louise Schmidt as efficient secretary Rose who in this episode takes on greater prominence than in previous entries. All of them begin a race against time to prevent new killings and attacks from creepy happenings.
And here the interesting story is intertwined with some historical elements about the Danish figure "Karl Steincke": He is known for his book 'Social Security of the Future' (in Danish, Fremtidens forsørgelsesvæsen) from 1920 in which he stated:"We treat the insignificant one with all kinds of care and love, but we prohibit him, in return, only from reproducing." His book was the basis for Danish laws on eugenics, the sterilization and castration of unwanted elements. Steincke considered that preventing the reproduction of "unwanted" people was important for society, mainly for practical reasons and because according to him "no one wanted them to have children, even if they were healthy". These types of phrases did not prevent him from being awarded the gold medal for merit and he has been cited as the main architect of the Danish welfare state with the Social Reform Laws of the early 1930s, including the Kanslergade Agreement.
This is the fourth installment after "Misericordy" , "Desecration" and "Redemption" and it is the turn of this "File 64" in the series of Danish productions based on the crime novels by Jussi Adler-Olsem in which two detectives and a secretary are in charge of investigating, if it arises some relevant fact, files almost closed for years. Christoffer Boe - Golden Camera at the 2003 Cannes Film Festival - directs professionally this thriller that has characteristic elements of the films of the seventies and especially of the Nordic crime novel.
The film that was presented in the official selection at the 2018 Sitges festival, presents in this series the personal and professional relationships of the protagonist police officers, here at a sentimental crossroads. Being well starred by Nikolaj Lie Kaas as deranged and cold detective Carl Mørck , Fares Fares as his faithful helper Assad and Johanne Louise Schmidt as efficient secretary Rose who in this episode takes on greater prominence than in previous entries. All of them begin a race against time to prevent new killings and attacks from creepy happenings.
And here the interesting story is intertwined with some historical elements about the Danish figure "Karl Steincke": He is known for his book 'Social Security of the Future' (in Danish, Fremtidens forsørgelsesvæsen) from 1920 in which he stated:"We treat the insignificant one with all kinds of care and love, but we prohibit him, in return, only from reproducing." His book was the basis for Danish laws on eugenics, the sterilization and castration of unwanted elements. Steincke considered that preventing the reproduction of "unwanted" people was important for society, mainly for practical reasons and because according to him "no one wanted them to have children, even if they were healthy". These types of phrases did not prevent him from being awarded the gold medal for merit and he has been cited as the main architect of the Danish welfare state with the Social Reform Laws of the early 1930s, including the Kanslergade Agreement.