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Doktor Harvig is an original dialogue-driven story about two drunks in a bar in Copenhagen making schemes to change Danish foreign politics forever. Even though the movie is almost built around a cast of only two people and one location, the actors succeed in bringing life to the story from start to end. The entertaining dialogue takes more than one detour, and as the story unfolds, it becomes clear that beneath the drunken political visions lurks a personal tragedy.

There is no doubt that Doctor Harvig serves a function as showing Denmarks (not so talked about) dirty laundry, regarding involvement in certain wars. The film may offer moral and political arguing views wrapped in a string of thriller-like sceneries to advance the plot, but we are as viewers challenged with the question of why we should accept these wars as a passable thing in history.

The essential dilemmas are compelling and there is enough cinematic substance to entertain a deep thinking film with an intense approach to the actions of the characters. We are left with the overwhelming sense that the involvement in wars are grim and gloomy episodes in Danish history. But nevertheless, it is a journey worth taking.