The Hunt (2012)
Storyline
A 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.
Directors
Cast
Mads Mikkelsen, Thomas Bo Larsen, Ole Dupont, Annika Wedderkopp, Lasse Fogelstrøm, Susse Wold, Anne Louise Hassing, Lars Ranthe, Alexandra Rapaport, Sebastian Bull Sarning, Bjarne Henriksen, Steen Ordell Guldbrandsen, Daniel Engstrup, Troels Thorsen, Søren Rønholt, Jytte Kvinesdal, Josefine Gråbøl, Nicolai Dahl Hamilton, Øyvind Hagen-Traberg, Allan Wibor Christensen, Rikke Bergmann, Rasmus Lind Rubin, Frank Rubæk, Nina Christrup, Birgit Petersen, Karina Fogh Holmkjær, Heidi Gross, Marie Aktor, Mona C. Soliman, Mie Ravn Nielsen, Kim Westi Rasmussen, Thomas Ravn, Katrine Brygmann
Trailer
Reviews
100
The Telegraph
Mikkelsen, who is not given to sympathetic roles, has never been better. This is cinema that sinks its claws into your back.
91
For anyone with even a halfway developed sense of justice The Hunt may prove stressful, frustrating, even enraging, but it’s also an unbelievably effective watch, that, if nothing else signals an undeniable return to form for Vinterberg, and yet another blistering performance from Mikkelsen. See it, if only for the debates it will cause afterward.
90
Propelled by Mads Mikkelsen’s shattering performance as the blameless man whose life threatens to be destroyed, the film is superbly acted by a cast that never strikes a false note or softens the impact with consolatory sentiment.
88
It’s a pretty conventional “Lifetime Original Movie” sort of story. But co-writer/director Thomas Vinterberg (“Dear Wendy”) makes it work by building a sense of frustrating unease into it all.
80
The Guardian
It is forthright, powerful, composed and directed with clarity and overwhelming force, yet capable of great subtlety and nuance.
