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The Hunt(Movie, 2012)

Original title: "Jagten" (Danish/DA)
FSK: 12+ years
| 1h 56min | Genre: Drama
The HuntRating: 4.0/5 (with 17561,756 votes)
The Hunt (Danish: Jagten) is a 2012 Danish psychological drama film directed by Thomas Vinterberg and starring Mads Mikkelsen. Set in a small Danish village around Christmas, the film follows a man named Lucas, a divorced kindergarten teacher who becomes the target of mass hysteria after being wrongly accused of sexually abusing a child in his class. The film gained critical acclaim for Mikkelsen's performance and Vinterberg's direction. Many have described it as one of the best psychological drama films of its time. It was competed at the 65th Cannes Film Festival, where Mikkelsen won the Best Actor Award for his role, and was also screened at the 2012 Toronto International Film Festival, among other film festivals. It won the 2013 Nordic Council Film Prize and was one of the nominees for Best Foreign Language Film at the 71st Golden Globe Awards. It was the Danish entry for the Best Foreign Language Film category at the 86th Academy Awards and was selected as one of the final five nominees. ()
Movie poster of The Hunt

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Awards & Nominations for The Hunt

Nordic Council Film Prize European Film Award for Best Screenwriter Academy Award for Best International Feature Film European Film Award for Best Actor European Film Award for Best Director European Film Award for Best Editor European Film Award for Best Screenwriter European Film Award for Best Film

About The Hunt

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.

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Trailer for The Hunt + Featurettes/Teaser/Clips

Jagten (2013) - Danish Trailer(Trailer, 2:40)

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Additional Information

Production countries: Belgium, Denmark, France, Sweden
Plays in: Denmark
Original language: Danish (DA)
Spoken languages: Danish (DA), English (EN), Polish (PL)
Translated into 33 languages: Arabic (AR), Bulgarian (BG), Catalan (CA), Czech (CS), Danish (DA), German (DE), Greek (EL), English (EN), Spanish (ES), Persian (FA), Finnish (FI), French (FR), Hebrew (HE), Hungarian (HU), Italian (IT), Japanese (JA), Korean (KO), Lithuanian (LT), Norwegian Bokmål (NB), Dutch (NL), Norwegian (NO), Polish (PL), Portuguese (PT), Romanian (RO), Russian (RU), Slovak (SK), Slovenian (SL), Swedish (SV), Turkish (TR), Twi (TW), Ukrainian (UK), Vietnamese (VI), Chinese (Mandarin) (ZH)
Status: Released
Release date DE: 03/28/2013 (World premiere: 10/25/2012)
Alternative titles in other countries (from previews, ads etc.):
"La cacería"
"狩猎"
"Die Jagd - Jagten"
"Jahti"
Budget: 3,800,000 USD
Revenue: 18,309,793 USD (= 482%)

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