"Manslaughter" "On 17 November 1976 you joined the communist party." "On 31 December 1978 you helped to found the DKPML and left on 3 July 1982." "Why?" " Why should I discuss it with you?" " Then there was 5 March 1986." "Your article supporting the political activities of some terrorist groups." "The organizations I mentioned were not terrorist groups." "They were oppressed peoples fighting for freedom." "Pil Andreasen was a pupil of yours from 1996 to 1999." " Yes." " You taught her society studies." " Was she only a pupil?" " What do you mean?" " Did you have sex with her then?" " No." " When did you start?" " None of your business." "When did you last see her?" "A week ago." "You are so bloody gorgeous." "If history has taught us anything, it's that nobody gives up power voluntarily." "If you fight for a better society, you have to accept that people will get hurt; there'll be victims." "You can't think about it for too long; you have to act and hope that the result will be an improvement." "I agree with you." "It's not that." "It's easy just to sit around saying" ""But what if things don't improve?"" "The way you do now and then, right?" "OK!" "Acting makes me feel safe." "I feel more insecure if I remain passive." "When society is passive:" "that's when I feel really scared." "I love you." "Have you got the tickets?" " No, didn't you bring them?" " Oh, Carsten!" " We can't make it home to get them." " No." " For goodness' sake..." " Look in the glove compartment." "There may be some old ones we can use." "Very funny!" "Ha, ha!" "You're so horrid!" "I'll put them into my bag." "I think that's a very good idea." "A really good idea." " When did we tell them we'd be there?" " A quarter to." " As long as we make the show." " Going in late is embarrassing." "We couldn't find anywhere to park." " How are you doing?" " Great." "Did you read the reviews?" " It had better be better than Sartre!" " You're kidding!" " That was so old-fashioned." " It was totally contemporary!" "You can't be serious?" "Shall we just go to bed?" "No, I think I'll stay up for a bit." "OK, good night." "Don't stay up too long!" " Hi, Carsten." " Hi, Poul." " Did you have a good holiday?" " Wonderful." "Fantastic." "23 degrees by day, red wine on the patio in the evening." " Come and join us next year!" " We'll do our best." "Coming on Thursday?" "Yes, Nina is off." "We'll be round at 8-ish." " You can see our photos." " Oh, no!" "Not too many, then!" "If we want to put multinational corporations in this table... has anybody any thoughts as to where they belong?" "If they go into a poor country and create lots of jobs, injecting lots of capital, and then one day they decide to pull out, the country will be just as well off as before." "He means as badly off." "Any transnational corporation will go for profits." "And those profits won't go to the poor country." "Yes, I meant badly off." "So where do we want to put the multinationals?" "Minus?" "Or both sides?" "You're not for real!" "Find it and turn it off." "Where is it?" "Come on, find it!" "Oh, no, I'm sorry, I'm sorry!" "I know, I know!" "Sorry!" "Treats all round!" "Sorry." "Carry on..." "Right then..." "Carsten, it's Pil." "Have you got a minute?" "What's up?" "I need 20 000." "I've got to disappear for a while." "It's best you don't know why." " When do you get off?" " Later." " I'm at your cabin." " Pil, what's going on?" " Can you get me 20 000 or can't you?" " But why?" "Because things went badly wrong at Bovar last night." "Mummy, mummy, there's someone at the door!" "Hi." "Is your mum in?" " Lisbeth Norregaard?" " Yes?" "Commander Jan Hansen, Precinct 1, Copenhagen." "Lars's colleagues;" "may we come in for a moment?" "Yes, but he hasn't come home yet." "Any moment now..." "The alarm's gone off at Bovar, 18, Industry Way." " Are there any cars in the vicinity?" " We'll do it." " We're not far away." " We'll check on Bovar, over." "Hey!" "Stop!" "Stop!" "Stop!" "Hands up!" "So I can see them!" "Get out of the van." "Lars!" "He can't be." "I talked to him last night." "Is there anyone we can phone?" "Relatives, a friend?" "Hi, Lars Norregaard speaking." "Leave a message;" "I'll call back." "Have a nice day." "No!" "No!" " What the hell are you doing here?" " Where's Pil?" "I must talk to her." " Do you know Pil?" " Yes." "Where is she?" " What are you doing here?" " Where is she?" "Dingo, how the hell did he get in?" "I don't know..." "What are you doing here?" " It's my house." " Pil, come up here!" " What is it?" " What's he doing here?" " Can we have a word?" " Yes." "Of course." "How did he know we were here?" " It's his house." " Did you phone him?" "Chill out!" "Chill out!" "It's his house." "I told you not to come." "It was on the radio." "He's dead." "Pil, damn it..." " Did you understand what I said?" " Yes." "Who was driving?" " When did he die?" " Just now." "You weren't the driver, were you?" "Who was?" "It will make a difference." "The driver will get 16 years." "The others... you might get off with 6 months for vandalism." "We're going away." "We're going away." "You can't do that." "They'll find you sooner or later." "It's no good." "You only have two alternatives." "Carsten!" "Yes?" "I was the driver." "I was the driver, I said." "It was me." " Where did you get to?" " I got held up by a car crash." "I waited half an hour." "Yes." "My mobile was dead." "And I thought I'd be in time." " I kept trying to phone you." " I'd forgotten to recharge it." " How about a cup of tea?" " No, I think I..." " Good evening." " Good evening." " Are you Carsten Nielsen?" " Yes." "We've conducted a search as part of a homicide investigation." "We have a warrant." "We arrested three people at your cabin this evening." " Carsten, do you know..." " Please come with us." "Carsten, what's going on?" "Carsten?" "What the hell...?" "Pil Andreasen was a pupil of yours from 1996 to 1999." " Yes." " You taught her society studies." " Was she only a pupil?" " What do you mean?" " Did you have sex with her then?" " No." " When did you start?" " None of your business." "When did you last see her?" "A week ago." "Do you know who the driver was?" "No." "How long have you been seeing her?" "A year... and a bit." "You've been seeing her for a year?" "Yes." "She's an old pupil." "You've been seeing her for over a year!" "Damn it!" "I'm really sorry that you had to find out like this." "I'm really sorry." "But I thought you knew in a way." "I knew?" "The way we are now." "We haven't slept together for over six months." "And that makes it all right to fuck someone else?" "No, no, it isn't." "But..." "Damn it, Carsten!" "It's not her." "It's us." "We are not happy together." "Are we?" "We don't live any more." "We just move around." "We receive visitors or Tobias comes and we liven up for a moment." "Our lives..." "there is nothing we want." "We want nothing." "We have nothing to fight for." " What are you saying?" " We..." "We'll end up like our parents." "Reading junk mail." "You must drop her, Carsten." "I can't do that." "And especially not now." "I'm all she's got." "I don't want to drop her." "I think..." "I think I'd better move out for a while." "To the cabin." "Three arrests have been made after the death of a policeman in a hit-and-run at the Bovar arms factory." "The trio refuse to speak about the killing." "But they admit vandalizing the factory." "The police say there is no doubt that one of the three ran the policeman down in cold blood." "I've come to see Pil Andreasen." "Straight ahead." "It's on the right." "Carsten Nielsen to see Pil Andreasen." "You are not allowed to discuss the case or even refer to it." "There will be an officer present at all times." "If the officer thinks you are using code the visit will terminate." "You can't take the juice in." "We can't search liquids." "I'm allowed to hold her hand, aren't I?" "Thanks for coming." "Of course I came." "You may not be here for very long." "What does your lawyer say?" "Remember not to talk about the case." "Put your blouse on again, Pil." "You've been beating her." " You've beaten her up!" " Put your blouse back on!" "This visit is terminated." "Majbritt!" "Right, Pil." "Come along." " You will have to leave now." " No!" "That's it for now." " Take her out." " So you can beat her up again?" "Stop that!" "Or you won't be able to visit again." "Look at her!" "You haven't heard the last of this." "She had been beaten up." "I advised her not to press charges." "But it's up to her." "She is black and blue all over." "It happened during the arrest." "Her word against theirs." " Tactically, it'd be stupid to sue." " You do realize she's innocent?" "That doesn't matter to me." "My client pleads not guilty." "That's what matters to me." "What matters is whether we win or lose." "But she will be acquitted, won't she?" "If they all refuse to speak there are two alternatives." "They'll all be acquitted." "Or they'll all be sent down for 16 years." "That's what the prosecution want." "Interview time." "Just tell me who the driver was..." "I am not going to talk." "You know he had a wife, right?" "And children?" "This is about your life and a policeman who's been killed." "And loads of other people." "But you all ignore them." "What kind of justice is that?" " How about acting responsibly?" " I am." "So why not tell me who the driver was?" "Don't you ever give up?" "Did you get the books?" "Which books?" "The ones on the list we made last time." "When was last time?" "On Wednesday." "I come every Wednesday, right?" "You do remember the last time I came, don't you?" "Yes." "I keep dreaming I'm banging my head on the wall but there is no blood, however much I bang it." "I can't take any more, Carsten." "I want to get out of here." " I can't take any more." " Easy does it." "I don't want this." " Pil, try to calm down." " I can't." "You can." "Just relax, all right?" "Or I'll get chucked out." "Easy now..." "People think this is cream puff country." "The police help ducks to cross the street." "But prisoners are being beaten up in our gaols." "There is no point in going to the courts, a lawyer tells me." "So the dead officer's family shouldn't mind?" "The point is... that when something like this happens, people feel that violence has suddenly entered society." "Our peaceful little society." "But our society is already full of violence." "Companies like Bovar make gun pods for F16s, that fly off to kill thousands of people." "We sign WTO treaties that wage trade wars on millions of poor." "That's also violence." "We have a dead police officer on the one hand, and on the other a child in Iraq who gets leukaemia, from the enriched uranium in our warheads." "Two victims of the same war, a war Denmark is waging." "Thank you." "I took his pyjamas out of the tumble drier so I think that's the lot." "Lisbeth, I'm going now." "Come on, darling." "Have a lovely time." "Are you sure you don't want to come home with us?" "No, thanks, dad." " Have a lovely time." " Are you sure you won't come?" "Yes." "Phone me tonight, all right?" "Phone if there is anything we can do, won't you?" "Hi." "Your mail is on the table." "The estate agent says it'll only take a month or two to sell the house." "And we can ask for 50 000 more if we finish the painting." "No, no, no." "I'm sorry." "I haven't got the energy." "Hi." "Well, well, well!" " Hi, Mum!" " Hi!" "Hi!" "What a surprise!" " Hi, dad." " Hi, son." " How are things?" " Oh, OK." "I've brought the invitations for the concert." "Here..." " Oh, yes, right." " Wonderful!" "I've tried phoning you quite a few times, dad..." "I'm sorry." "I'm not very good at returning calls right now." "That's OK." "Are you still seeing her?" "Her name is Pil and yes, I am." " Tobias!" " I just don't get it." "I just don't." "She's my age, damn it!" "You've done lots of things in your life that I'd have done differently." "But it's your life and you do what's right for you." "This is my life and I'm doing what's right for me." "You're 52 years old and you talk like that?" "You're destroying our entire family." "I..." "I know you're upset." "So am I. You'd rather we'd been happy together." "So would I. But we're not." "We have not been happy." "What do you expect us to do?" "Stay together for your sake?" "What do you mean, "haven't been happy"?" " I am not going to discuss it now." " Why not?" "I hadn't heard." "No, because a merry little play is always put on when you walk in." "Because we're pleased to see you and we forget we're not happy." "So you hadn't seen it and now you're surprised." "And I see why." "Of course all she's done is to commit a murder." "And you see nothing wrong with it." " I can't do this." " Tobias!" " Oh, sit down!" " Mum, I'll phone you." "Tobias!" "Don't go!" "Talk to you later." "You've got two weeks." "Discuss the points in your groups." "Use them for a party manifesto." "Yes?" " Will you pop in to see me later?" " Of course." "Oooh, Carsten's got to see the principal!" "I haven't just asked you in for a chat." "There is something we have got to talk about." "I'm being bombarded by parents who saw you on TV." "They don't want their children taught by a terrorist sympathizer." "I was going to suggest that you took leave of absence." "Are you serious?" "I'm not going on leave." "It's important for you and for the school that we stop working together for a while." "Poul, I'm not going on leave." "I know you have a problem." "I'm sorry about that." "You'll have to pull yourself together and stand up to them." "Saying it's all right for somebody to be killed..." " I didn't say that!" " That's how it looks." "And I can't defend it." "Of course you can!" "Of course you can defend freedom of speech!" "It is not about freedom of speech." "It's about the school's image." "That is precisely what it's about." "I say something and as a result I am sent on leave." "If that's not about freedom of speech..." "It's about the future of the school." "We don't want the focus that this talk will attract from the press." "You're meant to defend me!" "And not just brown-nose a few parents who're upset about something they haven't even heard!" "There has to be a connection between what you say in private and what you say from that chair." "I'm not going on holiday." "Or leave." "Forget it." "You have no choice." "You've got to." "Hi, Carsten." "Pil's been transferred to the hospital wing." " Hospital?" " She tried to cut her wrists." "But she is all right." "No harm done." "But... can I see her?" "Do her a favour;" "get her to say who the driver was." "Then she'll come out of solitary." "Pil..." "Pil, you mustn't do this." "I'm going to make a phone call." "I'll be back in a moment." "Pil..." "You're almost through it." "They can only remand you in isolation for three months." "Hang in there!" "It's nearly over." "You've almost won." "You have." " No, Carsten, I haven't." " Yes!" "No, I haven't." " Why not?" " I killed a man." " But it was an accident." " No." " It was!" " It was no accident." "Carsten, I saw his wife on TV." "And his son." "Pil, it was an accident." "Right?" "I wanted him to die." "I really wanted him to die." "I wanted to kill him." "Fuck!" "It'll grow less and less and less and in the end it'll vanish." " You'll act it away." " No!" "Yes!" "You must stop saying that." "Pil, I love you." "You mustn't fail yourself now." "All right?" "I told the priest." " You what?" " I told the priest." "Your visit is over." "Please say goodbye." "Pil, remember what I said." "Think it over." "Promise?" "Are you Carsten?" "I'm Jakob, the prison priest." "You have been talking to Pil?" "Yes." "As recently as last night." "In confidence?" "Yes, in confidence." "But I think you should consider... leaving it to Pil to decide if she can live with her guilt or not." "What happened last night shows she can't live with concealment... and I think you are in her way." "Who the hell do you think you are?" "What right have you to approach somebody in deep distress and tell them to go to prison for 16 years, instead of giving them some sensible alternatives?" "All you talk about is guilt and punishment and... vomit." "How would it help her?" "How would 16 years in prison help her?" "The verdict is due today on the Lars Norregaard murder." "The three accused chose not to testify regarding the killing." "The verdict of this court..." "Peter Jacobsen, Dennis Bak, and Pil Andreasen... are all acquitted of the unlawful killing of Lars Norregaard as the identity of the guilty party cannot be established." "All three are hereby sentenced to 6 months for vandalism." "As they have been on remand for longer than that, they are free to leave." "No!" "No!" " You can't do this!" " Order in court!" " You killed my husband!" " Order in court!" "One of them is the murderer." "One of you killed my husband." "The court cannot allow emotional outbursts like this." "They must be convicted of murder." "I can't take it." "I simply can't take it." "I'm sorry." "I'm sorry." "It's the one with the two windows, up there on the second floor." " Fantastic, eh?" " It's huge!" "What do you want?" "I have come to talk to Pil." "She isn't here." " Pil?" " Yes." " I only want to talk to her." " I'm afraid she isn't here." "Will you give her this?" "Yes." "Goodbye." "She won't be back." "Baby." "She can't talk to us." "She must find someone else." "Carsten, it's not going to stop." "Do you see?" "Pil..." "Trust me: it'll stop;" "it'll grow less; it'll disappear." "Everything will be all right again." "I know it doesn't seem like it." "But it will." " When do you finish?" " The lecture ends at 2." " Shall I pick you up?" " I'm seeing Peter afterwards." " But you'll be home for supper?" " I don't know." "I'll phone." "See you!" "Hi." "Hi." " Hi, Carsten." " Hi." "Peter came by for a book." " Oh, did he?" " I'll go and find it." "Pil told me... that Lisbeth had been to the cabin." "Yes." "It wasn't... pleasant." "She's also phoned me once or twice, and sent letters." "Here it is." "Thanks." "I'll phone you." "OK." "Take care, Carsten... yes." " 'Bye!" " 'Bye-bye." "Pil here, I can't answer the phone right now, leave a message..." "It's me." "I can't understand where you've got to." "Give me a call, all right?" " Yes?" " It's me." "Poul." "What the hell do you want?" " So this is where you're hiding." " What do you want?" " Just to see how you are." " That's none of your business." "I want you to come back to work." " Did Nina send you?" " She is concerned about you." "I don't need your concern." "Or your help." "Tell that to Nina, too." " Hi." " Hi, Pil." " Where did you get to?" " I fell asleep at Peter's." "Carsten..." "I hate seeing an old friend cracking up like this." "I am not your friend." "Cut it out." "And you're not going to help me." "Sort out your own problems." "Stop interfering in mine." "Do something about your life first." "Then we'll talk." "Do something about the way your wife throws herself at other men." "Do something..." "Ask yourself why you're one of the bosses and what you're betraying." "You have sold out all the way down the line." "Poul, you're dead." "I don't want to look at you." "Go away." " You're not the Carsten I once knew." " Goodbye, Poul." " I've got the message." " No last words." "Goodbye." "Get out." "Maybe it'd be a good idea... to stop seeing Peter for a while." " What makes you say so?" " Just maybe." "Maybe it'd be a good thing not to be constantly reminded." "I feel fine." "I see my friends." "I'm perfectly happy." "I just think it'd be a good idea." "Could you just stop checking up on me?" " I don't." " You do!" " What do you mean?" " You're always questioning me." "About where I've been, what I've been up to, and all that crap." " I don't!" " Your whole life is about me." " I..." " What did you do yesterday?" " Why should we talk about that?" " What have you done today?" "I've been working." "I'm interested in how you are." "What's the problem?" "The problem is this constant checking up; it is driving me mad." " Do something else." "See your friends." " I'm only trying to help you." "Coffee?" "No, thanks." "That was that, then." "Yes." "It was." "Are you OK, Carsten?" "Yes." "I've been worried about you." "I'm fine." " I have bought a flat." " Oh?" "Where?" "Just outside the centre." "Poul is also worried about you." "I don't want to talk about Poul." "I am fine." "I'm a bit pushed right now." "And I've got to go." "Not because I don't want to talk." "I just have to go." " See you." " See you, Carsten." "I miss you." "I miss the way we used to be." "I miss talking to you." "I miss our arguments." "I want things to be the way they were; not like this." "We don't need all this." "We can move on." "I miss you." "Yes?" "Hello?" "Is there anybody there?" "Just somebody playing tricks." "Who's there?" "Pil Andreasen?" "Carsten?" "She's downstairs." "Come downstairs and tell me who killed my husband!" "She is drunk." " I'll go and talk to her." " Are you up there?" "You can't hang around here." " Carsten, I've got to talk to Pil." " You've got to go home." " Do you know who killed Lars?" " You can't hang around here." "I must know who killed Lars." " I can't tell you." " In that case I'll talk to Pil." " You..." " I want to know what happened." " You've got to go." " Who was the driver?" " You must go home." " You know who the driver was." "I don't know a thing." "Stop that!" "I'm sorry." "I'm sorry." "You'll have to talk to somebody else, not us." "I can't go on living without knowing who killed my husband." "Go home." "I have got to find out because I want to get on with my life." " What am I to tell Mikkel?" " Stop it!" "Go home!" "See a psychologist!" "You can't stay here." "What am I to tell Mikkel?" "What am I to tell him?" "That some van or other crashed... into his dad?" "Some van or other?" "Some van?" "I can't take it any more." "She's got to learn to stay away." " You shouldn't have pushed her." " I didn't." "She grabbed me." "You just shouldn't have pushed her." "What were you thinking of?" "What are you on about?" "She grabbed me." " I didn't mean to push her." " I saw you push her." " What was I meant to do?" " What do you think?" " Yes, you tell me!" " Talk to her, not push her." "Of course; ask her up, tell her everything, and go to prison for 16 years." "I'm talking about a desperately unhappy woman whom you pushed in the street." " What the hell were you thinking of?" " She can't just talk to me." "You didn't have to push her." "Do you think I am trying to protect you for my own sake?" " Oh, give me a break!" " Give you a break?" "Do you think I'm doing this for my own sake?" " Doing what?" " Getting divorced." "Fired." " Losing all my friends." " Don't blame me." "You made your own choices." "Don't try to blame them on me." " Get out!" " Yes!" "Get out!" "Get the hell out of my life!" "It was a lousy idea right from the start; get out, damn you!" "Now!" " Is there anything I can do?" " No." "I just need to sit here for a moment." " What can I do?" " I'll just sit for a moment." "It..." "It turned out all wrong." "I thought..." "I thought that my life would be... true." "But all I did was to build up a new lie." "I don't know what you're trying to say." "Because... they could never have proved..." "But all the time..." "I've known." " Here you are." " Thank you." "I think that what I'm trying to say... is that I'd like you back in my life." "That I made a mistake." "That it... it was an incredibly stupid mistake." "No, Carsten, it wasn't a mistake." "You were right." "We had got stuck in a rut." "I understand that now." "I'm pleased about what happened." "Pleased." "Carsten, I am going to New York to work for a year." "I leave in three weeks." "Hello?" "It's me, Carsten." " Pil?" " She is dead." "It's all over the front pages." "She killed herself." "Hey!" "Are you there?" " Yes." " She is dead, Carsten." "Hi." "Hi?" " Where did you get to?" " What?" "Why did you stand me up?" " What are you on about?" " Carsten!" "We were going to clear the last few things from the house." "I'm sorry." "I'll do it tomorrow." "You can't." "The new owners are moving in tomorrow." "I'll do it today, then." "All right?" "Are you ill?" "You look terrible." "Is there anything I can do?" " No." " OK." "Hey, look out, you're on fire!" "Carsten!" "Sorry..." "Sorry." "I just came to pick up some stuff." "Pil!" "Pil..." "I've ruined everything." "I'm the one who's ruined everything." "Twice." " You were right." " Carsten!" "After you tried to kill yourself I told you to cling onto the cabin..." "It will never stop." " It will never stop." " Yes, it will." " We'll have to act." " Carsten." " I'll take you to the police." " Please go, will you?" "Please go." " You think you can run away from it." " I am not running away." " Listen to me!" "Go!" " You're not listening to me." " Go!" " We're going together." " No." " Yes..." " We've got to do this together." " You are not taking me anywhere." " Yes!" " No!" "You must leave now." " You're not taking me." " I'll visit you." " Carsten." " I'll take you to the police." " You'll never be free of it." " Shall I get rid of him?" " Yes." " OK, Carsten." "She doesn't want to talk to you." "Stop that!" "What are you doing?" "Pil!" "Pil!" " Come on." " I can't stay in that flat." "Come on!" "Get out!" "Chill out, Carsten." "Beat it." "She doesn't want to talk to you." "Hello." "My name's Carsten." "I'm the one who was having a relationship with Pil Andreasen." "One of the three activists who..." "I know very well who you are." "I want you to know that it was Pil who... was driving that night." "How dare you?" "Have you come here looking for absolution?" "Well, let me tell you you can forget all about that." "Let me tell you something:" "I want nothing to do with you." "Just get out of here." "Go away." "I'm looking for Ingelise Bak." "The last door on the right." "Pil was driving the van that night." "She told me." "I'm prepared to testify." "It's not enough." "If you can get Pil to come in and confess, we'll have a case." "I can't." "That's why I've come." " It's not enough for the courts." " It can't be right." "We can't reopen a case unless new evidence emerges or someone confesses." "She confessed to me." "There must be some way." "You people are usually so good at landing people in trouble." " Why is it impossible all of a sudden?" " You've brought me no evidence." "Just a story." "Do you remember?" "Just after Pil's suicide attempt, you visited her." "I left the room." "You had a real chance of getting Pil to confess." "But you persuaded her not to." "I just don't know how to put an end to it." "English subtitles Jonathan Sydenham"