"The series about "Department Q" is based, on a novel by Jussi Adler-Olsen." "Last year, we filmed "The Keeper of Lost Causes"." ""The Absent One" premiers this year." "We're hoping for two more movies." "I think it's about the universe, about keeping everything at a high level." "I'm trying to reflect us." "Where can the audience see themselves in the film?" "How was the "Department Q" series adapted to the screen?" "What did it take to play the most well-known team in Denmark?" "Hi." "I'm going to..." "Thanks." "We're on our way to Svendborg... to the Svend Award, where the winners are chosen by the audience." "We're going in connection with "The Keeper of Lost Causes"." "I was hoping that there was no traffic so we'd be on time." "I know that we're meeting with Sonja and Fares." "I haven't seen Fares for about a month or so, so I'm looking forward to seeing him again." "He's a nice boy." "I hope it'll be fun." "It'll be fun to see Nikolaj again and party a little with him." "I hope the film wins the award." "To me, "Department Q" is first and foremost Carl Mørck." "His character and the man he meets, when he meets Assad." "The friendship between them, which to me emerges during the first film, and which grows in the subsequent films is the most important thing." "This is the story of a police officer, who's lived his life with the police force, with his sense of self defined solely by his work." "It's cost him his wife and most of his relationships with other people, if they're not connected to his job." "He's allocated to Dept." "Q, a cold case department." "But since Carl is who he is and as he's passionate about his job, he's actually driven to investigate the cold cases." "It tells us something about him and his connection to Assad... and hopefully also tells us what it means to be human." " What the hell is wrong with you?" " What?" "I don't think I've seen you smile, man." " You don't care about others." " Fine." "You don't care about yourself." "I'm worried about you." "I'm worried about when this conversation ends." "Is the traffic heavy all the way?" "It's only around here." "In three minutes, the roads are clear." "Okay, good." "We've just finished the second film, "The Absent One"." "The first film did really well." "It was the most popular film last year, so that was really cool." "But you always want to see if you can live up to expectations once more." "It'll be interesting to see if the sequel is well-received." ""The Keeper" and "The Absent One" are very different films." "They're definitely related and definitely within the same universe." "But to me, the story also dictates how the film should look." ""The Keeper" was a small and claustrophobic story." "So I wanted to create a universe, which increasingly closed in on itself and the story." ""The Keeper" focused on the woman who was locked in the cage." "It was a little claustrophobic." ""The Absent One" is more open and jumps between past and present." "Not just five years back as with "The Keeper", but more than 20 years." ""The Absent One" is a bigger story, moving in different circles." "An upper-class boarding school." "So I hope that the audience will also feel that the universe expands." "We introduce a lot of new characters." "In a lot of ways, it's a bigger story." "Quiet on set." "Action." ""The Absent One" shows what happens when passion becomes obsession." "It shows on almost every layer of the film." "Both as regards the kids' story and Carl's own story." "I think it was a fascinating focal point... which I believe became the theme itself." "The story is also about Carl, Assad and the relationship between them, where the new friendship from the first film is put to the test." "And where Carl more than ever... is absorbed with the case in hand... and where at one stage, he crosses the line." "Stay!" "Stop!" "Turn around." "Turn around." "Don't move." "Hands up." "There is more action in the story, in the plot itself." "It's much more dynamic that way." "And the relation between Assad and Carl develops further... by virtue of the fact... that it runs away with the obsessed Carl Mørck." "I'll drive you home now." "What the hell...!" "I know what I'm doing." "Carl Mørck is a classic loner, who is forced to cooperate with Assad." "Assad is the polar opposite to Carl." "Assad... believes in the good in life." "He believes in hope." "It's the classic conflict between two people with different views on life, when they are forced to cooperate and can learn from each other as well." " Hang on, Hassan." " Assad." "I don't know who you pissed off, but this department is a joke." "Alright?" "Sorting through old cases is, what you make people do before retirement." "It's the end of the line." "Do yourself a favour:" "Hurry on back to the department you came from." "Carl is a loner." "He just wants to be left alone." "He doesn't really like other people." "But Assad is very people-orientated." "He's got great integrity." "The difference between him and Carl is his interest in other people." "He believes in the good in people until they prove him wrong." "He sees something in Carl that causes him to..." "Their friendship runs deep." "They trust each other." "It's the kind of people I'd like to follow." "I can feel that I..." "You somehow recognise yourself in them." "I think you really can sometimes." "Action!" "I don't understand this case." "He said something about another rape in the Fensmark Forest." " Was it included in Henning's notes?" " In the box?" "He said something about another rape in the Fensmark Forest..." "It was very difficult to find the right actors for the parts." "Especially Carl Mørck who might seem a little bit older in the books, than he does in our adaptation, so I spent a long time thinking about it and looking into it." "There was something about his character that I found hard to access, but where Nikolaj proved to be exactly right." "Nikolaj's ability to span the serious side, but also the humour." "That decided it." "His interpretation of Carl is formidable." "Assad was actually easy in that," "I always knew that Fares Fares had to play the part." "The part of Assad is quite complex." "On the surface, he's very open and positive." "He believes in good, but he has a dark side that emerges here and there." "Assad believes in good, but also knows that you fight fire with fire." "So he has a dark side." "Much in the same way as Carl has a good side." "But he's burdened by melancholy, or a view of the world as a hard and ugly place... where you have to struggle." "The reason I found anything interesting in Carl was the fact... that it is a person who is not particularly..." "He's the man no one can stand to live with." "We all know the type." " Carl." " Yes." "The phone rang 20 fucking times." "I can't sleep." " I thought you were at your mom's." " I've been here for three days." "If we forgot about being nice and welcoming... making people feel safe, as we know we have to in our society, and just focussed on our own basic needs, you'd live a much more lonely life." "But it would also be a lot more honest in a way." "It's lonely, but we do understand the people who chose to live like that, because we then could cut all the crap once in a while too." "Where the hell were you, man?" "Our new secretary is up there." " Cool." "Then there's the Tårnby case." " I want you to meet her." "I like her." "We can't keep changing secretaries." "Films are about touching emotions that you already have." "I think you can relate to a whole lot of really weird things in life." "Even if you place people in space and they fly off in the space capsule... we know how they feel, even if we haven't tried it ourselves." "Rose." "Carl." "Rose, our new secretary." " Hi, Carl." " Hi." " Welcome." " Thanks." "This will be nice." "Assad and I already really get along well." "We do." "Exactly." " Hi." " Hi." "Do you have any chicken?" "There's chicken burger." "Do you have any other chicken?" "I could use my eyes." "Then can I ask for chicken?" " Yes." "With potatoes?" " Please." "Nikolaj is a very receptive actor." "A receptive human being." "He's also complex just like all other actors and people." "We all have our issues." "The two of us are good at being open and honest about our issues." "That might be one of the reasons why it works so well." "I only knew Fares through his work." "He's done some really cool things..." "also with his brother." "What we saw in him as Assad..." " was completely unique." " Nikolaj and I are very equal." "There is no rivalry between us." "Fares and I are different." "We come from different backgrounds." "I'm very Danish." "He's very Swedish." "That matters a great deal." "At the same time, there's also..." "We've always liked each other." "We were also forced to like each other because we needed it to work." "With "The Absent One" in particular, I felt... that we've started to enjoy a really good friendship." "A very close friendship, which I greatly appreciate." "Just push this to secure it." "Then it can't shoot." "We all meet people we get along with without being able to articulate it." "I'm looking for the ones I like and the ones that like each other." "To a great extent, my job is to try and put people together." "It was important that the two actors in the two parts worked well together." "Preferably both on and off screen." "The two men are so important to the whole universe." "I should put you on a leash." "It's a buddy story, so that was a key point for me right from the start." "You can feel that they like each other." "604, second take." "It's very challenging to adapt such a popular novel." "Everyone's got an opinion about who should play the part of Carl Mørck." "How should it look?" "Why not, why?" "At the beginning it took up so much space." "At some point you have to make your own choices and create your own work." " What the hell is that, man?" " Is it yours?" "It belonged to a retired cop who died last night." "Are you all alone in the world?" "It started as a great challenge, but it was also motivating, with great respect for the text, to have to create your own work." "When adapting novels, you have to do so respectfully." "Try to capture the essence of the novel, but also create your own work." "A direct translation of a novel is never interesting." "Not for the great fans or the viewers meeting this world for the first time." "The "Department Q" project was always very ambitious." "We wanted to take thrillers as a genre to a whole new level." "It demanded greater setups." "We had to build a lot in Germany where part of the film is shot." "We also filmed at an estate belonging to Ulrik, one of the main culprits." "To create his world..." "There were lots of animals and we had to build things." "There were a lot of significant production props in the film." "Well?" "Collar or rope?" "Nice and easy." "Action." "A toast to our host." "Ulrik, my main man." "Thanks for once more letting us use your beautiful estate, even if the weather isn't quite on our side today." "To Ulrik." "Thanks." "The films have large budgets, which shows in the visuals, and in the way it is filmed." "Anyone, who has seen the first film, can feel the quality of it." "That it was important." "Everything will be covered in snow." "That way." "Behind the Golf." " And quiet on set." " Action!" "I think the production value of the film is is fantastic." "I've worked on American projects, where the budgets are obviously bigger, but you feel..." "In addition to everything else... the recording itself is very different." "You quickly get used to it." "In Danish films, you often get the chance to make a real effort." "So we're going big or doing it this way." "But for the overall look of a film, you do not have the time or money, to bring it all to this level." "But that was what we wanted." "The whole film had to take place in a different universe." "A Scandinavian suburb." "Do you want me to grab my things?" " Hi." "Long time, no see." " Yeah." "Don't you have a suit?" "Fucking hell." "So I have to wear one, but you don't?" "That's nice for once." " Aren't you wearing a suit?" " No." "When he wears a suit, you wear a T-shirt." "Now you're doing it." "It's always me." "Hope springs eternal." "I have to put on a shirt and I'm ready." "Clothes crisis." "Fucking Nikolaj is not wearing a suit." "He doesn't have a suit." "When you work so hard and spend so much of your life on a world... you hope that people will like it." "The last three years, I've done nothing but "Department Q"." "I've gotten up for it and gone to bed with it." "When a film is completed, you present it... and pray that the audience will like it." "We have awards to give, so let's get started." "The winner is Sonja Richter for "The Keeper of Lost Causes"." "Nikolaj Lie Kaas for "The Keeper of Lost Causes "." "Fares Fares for "The Keeper of Lost Causes"." "The most popular Danish film of the year:" ""The Keeper of Lost Causes", Mikkel Nørgaard." "It's so sweet when we clean up!" "Do you know what that means?" " We took all the awards." " That's awesome." "I hope and believe, that "The Absent One" will be just a big a hit, or bigger still." "Are you allowed to say it's better?" "Yes, because I am in it." "I look forward to having the ones who liked the first film, hopefully also wanting to see the next one." "We've done our very best to make a film, which is hopefully even better than the first." "I don't know if it will be an even greater success." "I hope people will have a good experience." "People out there are trying to kill our only witness." "English subtitles:" "Helle Kaiser-Nielsen Oneliner" "Subtitle:" "sync, fix: titler"