Film · TMDB
8.1A teacher lives a lonely life, all the while struggling over his son’s custody. His life slowly gets better as he finds love and receives good news from his son, but his new luck is about to be brutally shattered by an innocent little lie.
Released: 2012-10-25116 minDir: Thomas VinterbergDrama
Cast
- Mads Mikkelsen as Lucas
- Thomas Bo Larsen as Theo
- Annika as Klara
- Lasse Fogelstrøm as Marcus
- Susse Wold as Grethe
- Anne Louise Hassing as Agnes
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Ratings · OMDb
IMDb
8.3/10
397,079 votes
Rotten Tomatoes
92%
Metacritic
77/100
- Rated
- R
- Awards
- Nominated for 1 Oscar. 38 wins & 74 nominations total
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Key facts
- Danish
- Jagten
- Directed by
- Thomas Vinterberg
- Written by
- Tobias Lindholm Thomas Vinterberg
- Produced by
- Morten Kaufmann Sisse Graum Jørgensen Thomas Vinterberg
- Starring
- Mads Mikkelsen
- Cinematography
- Charlotte Bruus Christensen
- Edited by
- Anne Østerud Janus Billeskov Jansen
- Music by
- Nikolaj Egelund
- Production company
- Zentropa
- Distributed by
- Nordisk Film
- Release dates
- 20 May 2012 ( 2012-05-20 ) ( Cannes ) 10 January 2013 ( 2013-01-10 ) (Denmark )
- Running time
- 115 minutes
- Country
Key dates
- Published
- 19 July 2013
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- film
- Participant in
- 25th European Film Awards
- Genre
- drama film
- Country of origin
- Sweden
- Original language
- Danish
- Main subject
- mass hysteria
- Director
- Thomas Vinterberg
- Screenwriter
- Tobias Lindholm
- Producer
Article
The Hunt (Danish: Jagten) is a 2012 Danish psychological drama film co-written, produced and directed by Thomas Vinterberg and starring Mads Mikkelsen. Set in a small Danish village around Christmas, the film follows a man named Lucas, a divorced kindergarten teacher who becomes the target of mass hysteria after being accused of sexually abusing a child in his class.
The film gained critical acclaim for Mikkelsen's performance and Vinterberg's direction. Many have described it as one of the best psychological drama films of its time. It was competed at the 65th Cannes Film Festival, where Mikkelsen won the Best Actor Award for his role, and was also screened at the 2012 Toronto International Film Festival, among other film festivals. It won the 2013 Nordic Council Film Prize and was one of the nominees for Best Foreign Language Film at the 71st Golden Globe Awards. It was the Danish entry for the Best Foreign Language Film category at the 86th Academy Awards and was selected as one of the final five nominees.