A Place Nearby

2000 · 100 min · Drama

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

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?

Director: Kaspar Rostrup
Writer: Kaspar Rostrup
Released: January 21, 2000
Language: Danish

Cast

Ghita Nørby
Fru Nielsen
Thure Lindhardt
Brian
Frits Helmuth
Jespersen
Henning Moritzen
Baronen
Bodil Lindorff
Posekonen
Magnus Stahl Jacobsen
Lille Brian
Hannah Bjarnhof
Sarons Rose
Sarah Boberg
Ung kvinde
Thomas Bo Larsen
Ung mand
Pia Vieth
Pædagogen
Niels Anders Thorn
Jacinskij
Niels Weyde
1. Læge

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