BEFORE IT ENDS

By Anders Walter

From the Academy Award-winning director of 'HELIUM' and featuring Pilou Asbæk

FACTS

Title: BEFORE IT ENDS

Original title: NÅR BEFRIELSEN KOMMER

Director: Anders Walter

Cast: Pilou Asbæk, Katrine Greis-Rosenthal, Morten Hee Andersen, Peter Kurth, Ulrich Thomsen

Genre: Drama

Duration: 97 min

Language: Danish

Country of origin: Denmark

Scriptwriter: Anders Walter

Cinematographer: Rasmus Heise

Editor: Lars Wissing

Production Company: Nordisk Film

Producers: Miriam Nørgaard, Mette Høst Hansen, Tomas Radoor

Production year: 2023

Executive producers: Henrik Zein

Budget EUR: 4.1M

Local release: 24-08-2023

Film status: Completed

When a Folk High School is turned into an internment camp for German refugees, the headmaster couple Jakob and Lis and their children are thrust into an impossible situation. Should the family help the refugees - or stand firm in the Danish resistance against the Germans? BEFORE IT ENDS is inspired by true events and depicts a dark chapter in the history of Denmark: The handling of 250,000 German civil refugees who came to Denmark in the spring of 1945.

The feature is a touching and nerve-wrecking drama about a family under pressure and the limits of charity.