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A foreign woman in a burqa brings her young son to a Copenhagen police station to file a complaint against her abusive husband, but the translator assigned to her seems unwilling to convey the true meaning of her words. A tense, diamond-hard film about cultural isolation and bureaucratic ignorance.

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Budget

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Status

Released

Original Language

Danish

Runtime

13 mins

Rating

6.889/10

Release Date

10 September 2014

Country

Denmark

Cast

Nanna Bøttcher

Nanna Bøttcher

Police woman

Yusuf Kamal El-Ali

Yusuf Kamal El-Ali

Son

Amira Helene Larsen

Amira Helene Larsen

Translator

Zeinab Rahal

Zeinab Rahal

Mother

Alexandre Willaume

Alexandre Willaume

Policeman

Peter Fog Jensen

Peter Fog Jensen

Policeman in office

Maria Yang-Busch

Maria Yang-Busch

Woman in corridor

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