The Hunt

The Hunt

2012 · 116 min · DA · R · 8.1 (4,772 votes)
Dir. Thomas Vinterberg · Starring Mads Mikkelsen, Thomas Bo Larsen, Annika, Lasse Fogelstrøm, Susse Wold, Anne Louise Hassing · Music Nikolaj Egelund

The lie is spreading.

Drama

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.

VIBE

This film is a relentless descent into a nightmare of false accusation and communal hysteria. It feels suffocatingly tense, a slow-burn psychological unraveling that leaves you profoundly unsettled. The atmosphere is thick with dread, portraying the devastating ripple effects of a single, innocent lie with unflinching, heartbreaking realism.

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