We are pleased to inform you that our black comedy RIDERS OF JUSTICE, featuring Mads Mikkelsen, has just been selected as the Opening Film at the 50th International Film Festival Rotterdam, which takes place in a new hybrid format on 1-7 February 2021 and 2-6 June 2021.
A fantastic local reception
The film had its local release in Denmark on 19 November 2020 and enjoyed an overwhelming reception among the press and audience. 150,000 admissions, including pre-screenings, were sold on the opening weekend, making it this year’s greatest opening weekend in Danish cinema as well as the greatest opening of a Danish film since CHECKERED NINJA (2018). Having reached an impressive 458,000 admissions in less than three weeks, combined with superb 5 and 6 star ratings from local press, the successful journey of RIDERS OF JUSTICE is currently on hold as Danish cinemas are now closed until further notice.
The black comedy has also been highly praised among distributors and sold to a wide range of territories already: The UK (Vertigo Releasing), Germany and Austria (Splendid Film), France (SND – Groupe M6), Switzerland (Ascot Elite Entertainment Group), Benelux (September Film Distribution), Baltics (Estin Film), Czech Republic and Slovakia (Film Europe), Poland (Best Film), Hungary (Vertigo Media), Albania, Slovenia, Croatia, Serbia & Montenegro, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Kosovo, Macedonia (Cinemania Groupicon), Russia CIS (Capella Film), Japan (Klockworx), Australia and New Zealand (Rialto), the US (Magnet Releasing, a genre arm of Magnolia Pictures) and Brazil (Synapse).
Cast and crew:
Similar to Anders Thomas Jensen’s previous films, RIDERS OF JUSTICE boasts an exclusive Scandinavian A-list cast starring EFA 2020-winning Mads Mikkelsen (ANOTHER ROUND, 2020; ROUGE ONE: A STAR WARS STORY, 2016), Nikolaj Lie Kaas (MEN & CHICKEN, 2015; YOU DISAPPEAR, 2017), Lars Brygmann (THAT TIME OF YEAR, 2018) and Nicolas Bro (ADAM’S APPLES, 2005; NYMPHOMANIAC, 2013) also featuring Gustav Lindh (QUEEN OF HEARTS, 2019), Roland Møller (PAPILLON, 2017; VALHALLA, 2019) and not least upcoming talent, Andrea Heick Gadeberg (DANIEL, 2019).
Synopsis:
The deployed military man Markus has to go home to his teenage daughter, Mathilde, when his wife dies in a tragic train accident. It seems to be plain bad luck - until the mathematics geek Otto shows up with his two eccentric colleagues, Lennart and Emmenthaler. Otto was also a passenger on the wrecked train. He is convinced someone must have been behind it. As the clues piles up, it becomes clear to Markus, it might have been a carefully orchestrated assassination, which his wife ended up being a random casualty of. Anders Thomas Jensen's new comedy is a modern fable about solidarity, the randomness of the universe ... and, well, the meaning of life.
RIDERS OF JUSTICE is written and directed by Anders Thomas Jensen and produced by Sisse Graum Jørgensen and Sidsel Hybschmann for Zentropa Entertainments3. The film is co-produced by Film i Väst and Zentropa Sweden with support from Danish Film Institute/ Market Scheme, FilmFyn, Nordisk Film & TV Fond, The Media Programme of the European Union, in collaboration with YouSee, TV 2 DENMARK, YLE and SVT.
