The Keeper of Lost Causes

The Keeper of Lost Causes
Theatrical release poster
Kvinden i buret
Directed by
Written by	Jussi Adler-Olsen
Screenplay by	Nikolaj Arcel
Produced by	Peter Aalbæk Jensen, Louise Vesth
Starring	Nikolaj Lie Kaas Fares Fares Sonja Richter Søren Pilmark
Cinematography	Eric Kress
Edited by
Music by	Johan Soderqvist
Distributed by	Nordisk Film
Release dates	31 January 2013 (2013-01-31) (GIFF) 3 October 2013 (2013-10-03) (Denmark)
Country	Denmark
Language	Danish

The Keeper of Lost Causes (Danish: Kvinden i buret), also known as Department Q: The Keeper of Lost Causes, is a 2013 Danish film, directed by . The movie is based on the novel by Jussi Adler-Olsen. It is the first film in the Department Q series, followed by the 2014 film The Absent One, and the 2016 film A Conspiracy of Faith.

Plot[]

Carl Mørck is demoted to Department Q, the cold case unit, after a raid goes wrong. One case, a suspected suicide, piques his interest. His investigations suggest that the woman, a rising politician, was actually kidnapped. Mørck ruffles feathers, and is told to halt the investigation, but he and his colleague Assad continue.

Cast[]

• Nikolaj Lie Kaas – Carl Mørck
• Fares Fares – Assad
• Sonja Richter – Merete Lynggaard
• Mikkel Følsgaard – Uffe Lynggaard
• Søren Pilmark – Marcus Jacobsen
• Troels Lyby – Hardy Henningsen
• Patricia Schumann – Søs Norup
• Eric Ericson – Johan Lundquist

Release[]

The film was first shown at the Gothenburg Film Festival in January 2013, followed by several more film festivals before its cinema release in Denmark on 3 October 2013.^[1] The film topped the local box office in 2013 with 725,000 Danish moviegoers buying tickets.^[2]

References[]

External links[]

• The Keeper of Lost Causes at IMDb
• The Keeper of Lost Causes at Rotten Tomatoes
• Kvinden i buret in the Danish Film Database