Two Minutes Late
Nordic Noir
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1h 41m
Directed by Torben Anton Svendsen • 1952 • Denmark
Starring Poul Reichhardt, Grethe Thordahl, Astrid Villaume
The streets of postwar Copenhagen become a shadowy labyrinth of suspicion and danger in this taut, atmospheric thriller. Poul Reichhardt stars as Max, a philandering husband whose wife (Grethe Thordahl) fears that he may be cheating on her with her own sister (Astrid Villaume). Tensions mount further when a woman is found murdered and Max becomes the prime suspect—but what about the strange watchmaker (Erik Mørk) who seems to be hiding secrets of his own?
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