There’s a grey, bleak, urban feel to this Copenhagen – it’s Nordic noir but without snowy cabins, fjords and evergreens. Is there a wider pattern, or some kind of butterfly effect going on, with certain actions or inactions by the players contributing to the carnage that will follow.Īttitudes around race, justice, immigration and Denmark’s history are tested, and once again certain aspects – positive and negative – of Denmark’s liberal welfare state are critiqued through what happens in the story. This leads to an unsettling, questioning feeling throughout. Led by what you see and your own assumptions, you’ll start to anticipate some of these connections. Suspense and suspicion grip you as connections between the characters and the event must be worked out. There aren’t just eight storylines to follow, the timeline moves backwards and forwards as we are occasionally brought back to scenes around the attack. Justice minister Elizabeth Hoffman finds herself in a political and personal pinch.Īs you watch, each human story unfolds little by little, with all the ups and downs of life, relationships, achievements and disappointments gradually being teased out. When she needs to pee in the bushes, she finds some bullets and a stash of automatic weapons… Meanwhile, 10-year-old Marie (Viola Martinsen) is on a trip to a migrant centre with her mother Louise (Filippa Suenson) to donate some clothing. There are hints that Jamal is leading a double life. We see him at a wedding with his overbearing brother, Chadi, a chauffeur who is furious with him for failing his driving test a fifth time. Then there’s Jamal (Arian Kashef), who comes from a Muslim family. She goes home to her wife Stina, who wants her to retire.
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Nikolaj has provided the catering for a press event at a local prison, attended by justice minister Elizabeth Hoffman (Karen-Lise Mynster) whose father survived Auschwitz and who is trying to pass a bill that will free asylum seekers from the detention centres they are held in. Working there is Albert, Morten’s teenage son, who is fired for a minor kitchen infraction. We also meet Nikolaj (Peter Christoffersen), the chef in the restaurant during the shooting, as he uses underhanded tactics to buy out the former owner and make it his own. He and his wife Camilla (Julie Agnete Vang) are about to celebrate their wedding anniversary but first he has to go to work, where he’s meant to mend some leaking sinks but ends up meeting Holger, an old man in a nursing home who has given up on life. The man in his underwear is Morten Dalsgård, played by Jacob Lohmann, previously seen in Norskov. Then we spool back to nine days before the attack, and start picking up the stories of some of the people who were in the restaurant and others we don’t recognise. Then a distraught man in his underwear runs into the restaurant, calling the name Albert. After a few seconds of audio carnage, everything goes quiet. An automatic rifle flashes onto the screen, shooting tears through the place and terror erupts. We see fragments of a happy evening, with snippets of conversation, blurred a little here and there by an unsteady camera. It’s an ambitious programme that is complex and unnerving, relying on some excellent acting to grip viewers who will try to work out what’s happening.Įverything starts off in a busy restaurant – voices, sizzling food and good cheer. However, the story is not so much about the hunt for the perpetrators as it is a look at how crimes like this come about and their effects.
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Set in Copenhagen, the series begins with an horrific terror attack in a restaurant that leaves a number of people dead or dying. If you’re in the UK, tune in to Channel 4 at 11pm on Sunday 19 September for the first episode of When the Dust Settles. We’re sounding the Nordic noir alert siren.
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