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.

Keywords

  • BAFTA Film Awards
  • European Film Awards
  • Festival de Cannes
  • Festival de Cannes - Tax Shelter
  • Film Fest Gent !
  • Film Fest Gent (home)
  • Golden Globes
  • Mads Mikkelsen
  • Nordic Films
  • Premios Goya
  • Teachers in the Movies: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
  • The Oscars
  • community
  • nature

Actors

  • Mads Mikkelsen
  • Thomas Bo Larsen
  • Annika Wedderkopp
  • Lasse Fogelstrøm
  • Susse Wold
  • Katrine Brygmann
  • Anne-Louise Hassing
  • Lars Ranthe
  • Alexandra Rapaport
  • Daniel Engstrup
  • Ole Dupont
  • Thomas Vinterberg

Director

  • Thomas Vinterberg

Drama, Thriller

1h 51min

-12

DA

NL

FR

Denmark
2011
A man working at a nursery school is wrongly accused of child abuse. Despite his innocence, the community quickly turns against him.

A man working at a nursery school is wrongly accused of child abuse. Despite his innocence, the community quickly turns against him.


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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Cast & Crew