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The Absent One (2014)

The Absent One (2014)

Fasandræberne
NR 116 minutes DA Thriller
Denmark, 2014. A former police officer asks Carl Mørck, head of Department Q, to find out who brutally killed his young twins in 1994. Although a local inhabitant confessed and was convicted of murder, Carl and his partner Assad soon realize that there is something in the case resolution that is terribly wrong.
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