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Title: King's Game [Kongekabale]
Cast: Anders W. Berthelsen, Søren Pilmark, Nastja Arcel, Nicolas Bro, Lars Mikkelsen, Ulf Pilgaard
Director: Nikolaj Arcel

After a period of political corruption, the public are only just starting to regain trust in Danish politics. On the run up to the election the opposition party are confident that they can win at last. However, returning home from a rally the leader of the party has a car accident - with both him and his wife ending up in hospital.

Ulrik Torp is the son of a former prominent minister and a junior reporter. But after the accident he is handed his dream assignment - reporting from parliament. After turning up for his first day reporting from parliament - he is handed a prime story. A story that will look bad for the prime candidate for replacing the leader of the opposition if he dies in hospital. From there things start to get worse for the opposition party, and Torp starts to suspect that he is being manipulated.

King's Game is a tense drama. Political, journalistic, suspenseful. Who can be trusted and who is manipulating whom? King's Game is one of those films that with each new scene you are breathless with anticipation as to just what will be revealed next. Who is lining the pockets of whom? Who is being stabbed in the back and betrayed? With the Torp struggling to keep on top of the matter, becoming increasingly desperate - will he manage to avoid going down with the sinking ship, will he manage to claw his way back out of the hole he has dug for himself?

Fascinating and compelling, undoubtedly one of the best thrillers I have seen in a long time.