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2014Movie13 min

Drama
73
GoodGoodWatch score
IMDb7.3
73
GoodGoodWatch score
IMDb7.3

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A foreign woman in a burqa brings her young son to a Copenhagen police station to file a complaint against her abusive husband, but the translator assigned to her seems unwilling to convey the true meaning of her words. A tense, diamond-hard film about cultural isolation and bureaucratic ignorance.

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