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Brothers is a danois film of genre Drama directed by Susanne Bier released in USA on 6 may 2005 with Nikolaj Lie Kaas
Brothers (2004)
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Add to a movie listBrothers (Danish: Brødre) is a 2004 Danish drama film directed by Susanne Bier and written by Bier and Anders Thomas Jensen. It stars Nikolaj Lie Kaas, Connie Nielsen and Ulrich Thomsen.
The film was remade as an American production with the same title (2009), directed by Jim Sheridan.
Synopsis
A Danish officer, Michael (Thomsen), is sent to the International Security Assistance Force operation in Afghanistan for three months. His first mission there is to find a young radar technician who had been separated from his squad some days earlier. While on the search, his helicopter is shot down and he is taken as a prisoner of war, but is reported dead to the family.Actors
Nikolaj Lie Kaas
(Jannik)
Connie Nielsen
(Sarah)
Ulrich Thomsen
(Michael)
Sarah Juel Werner
(Natalia)
Bent Meiding
(Henning)
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