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The Hunt – Denmark & Sweden (2012)

The Hunt represented Denmark at both the 2014 Academy Awards & 2014 Golden Globe in the Best Foreign Language Film category. Lucas, played by Mads Mikkelsen (seen in Casino Royale), is a kindergarten teacher in a small Danish town. While waiting to be picked up after school one day, one of the children says some very damning things about Lucas. In a small town, news travels fast, and before Lucas knows it, all those close to him shun him. Lucas is faced with day-to-day ridicule in a situation that he seems to be stuck in permanently.


Directed by Thomas Vinterberg, this film does an amazing job at exposing Lucas' inner turmoil on screen. As the Star Tribune puts it, "It’s a contemporary horror story about a respected man’s descent into a Kafkaesque nightmare of denunciations, dread and danger." The Hunt also features some great cinematography in the Danish film tradition and is something that shouldn't be missed.