For My Brother
- Director: Brian Bang
- Writer: Brian Bang
- Producer: Brian Bang; Peter Dits Christensen
CGiii Comment
Rarely do we declare a film unwatchable...but, on the odd occasion we do.
This film is unwatchable.
Not only is the subject-matter repugnant - extreme, organised and systematic child abuse. The opening scene is a savage attack on the senses.
Now we have nothing against the controversial - in fact, we applaud it...however, our problem with this film is the camerawork and editing.
Hand-held throughout...there's never a steady moment. As for the editing...done with a hatchet.
Needless to say...we managed to watch 20 or so minutes...after significant symptoms of extreme nausea and blurred vision...we switched off.
Trailer...
The(ir) Blurb...
The two brothers Aske (17 years old) and Bastian (12 years old) live with their father, Lasse. Their mother died seven years earlier. Every day they live in a world where fear, violence and alcohol are huge factors, but where the brothers' strong and close relationship means everything. Aske's fight for survival means that he has to serve his father's sexual needs, which include abuse from the father, but also from paying customers and the father's friend Hans (who has a lot of contacts in the pedophile environment).
Aske tries everything to keep his little brother out of it all so that he won't experience the same as himself. But one day Bastian is abused by their father and Aske's entire world is about to fall apart. The brothers choose to move to Norway, far away in the beautiful mountains. Their friendship outshines everything! They are together and far away from their evil father...
Cast & Characters
Elias Munk as Aske;
Christopher Friis Jensen as Bastian;
Allan Karlsen as Lasse;
Frank Schiellerup as Hans;
Oliver Bjornholdt Spottag as Silas;
Tina Norby as Mor;
Frederik Ingemann Brandt as Aske 10 ar;
Lara Leon as Sasja;
Marie Louise Lund Jensen as Malene;
Kit Langberg Rasmussen as Frederikke;
William Gaarde as Andreas;
Robin Koch as Philip;
Oliver Skou as Magnus;
Dorte Evalyn Evon as Karen;
Tobias Hyttel as William