Picturehouse Entertainment is pleased to announce the UK release of Mikkel Nørgaard’s (Klown, Borgen) The Absent One on Digital from 30 May. The Absent One is the follow-up to 2013’s critically acclaimed The Keeper Of Lost Causes. Both films are based on the international bestselling Department Q crime novels written by Jussi Adler-Olsen. The Absent One stars Nikolaj Lie Kaas (Angels & Demons, The Whistleblower, The Killing, Child 44), Fares Fares (Zero Dark Thirty, Safe House, Child 44) and Pilou Asbæk (Game Of Thrones, Lucy, A Hijacking).
In 1994 two young twins are found brutally murdered in a summer cottage. A number of clues point in the direction of a group of young upper-class students from a nearby boarding school, but the case is closed as a local outsider pleads guilty and is convicted of the murders.
When the case ends up on Carl Mørck’s desk 20 years later, he soon realises that something is terribly wrong. As Carl and Assad start investigating the case, they are led to an old emergency call from a desperate girl who seems to know the secret of the murders. Soon they are plunged into an intense search for the girl, Kimmie, who has been missing since the murders happened. But Carl and Assad are not the only ones trying to track her down, as her testimony poses great danger to a group of influential men who will do all they can to keep her silent. The Keeper Of Lost Causes is available on DVD and Digital now.
