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Brodre is a 2004 Danish film starring Nikolaj Lie Kaas, Connie Nielson, and Ulrich Thomsen. The film is in Danish with English subtitles. For those interested, it was later remade into an English version in 2009 called Brothers, starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Natalie Portman, and Tobey Maguire.
The story is about Michael (Ulrich Thomsen), a family man and a soldier who is sent off to Afghanistan. He leaves behind his wife Sarah (Connie Nielson), and his brother Jannik (Nikolaj Lie Kaas). After Michael is presumed dead, Sarah and Jannik begin to grow closer and eventually develop feelings for one another, but as it turns out, Michael is still alive. This causes a great deal of discomfort when he arrives home.
The film was nominated for several Danish Academy Awards. It's a little bit slow-paced, but wonderfully acted and very gut-wrenching. It's very well-crafted because the audience is made to both sympathize with Michael, who has been through so much, but at the same time you also approve of the romance between Jannik and Sarah, because Jannik is such a great man and they've both lost someone very important to them. It then gets very tough and you don't really know who to root for in the end, so in that sense, I think the director and writer did their job well.
The film is rated R and has a running time of 117 minutes.
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