Brothers

Original title: Brødre

2004
R
1h 57m

IMDb RATING

YOUR RATING

Connie Nielsen, Nikolaj Lie Kaas, and Ulrich Thomsen in Brothers (2004)

Two brothers must negotiate changing roles and shifting family dynamics when one is sent to war in Afghanistan.Two brothers must negotiate changing roles and shifting family dynamics when one is sent to war in Afghanistan.Two brothers must negotiate changing roles and shifting family dynamics when one is sent to war in Afghanistan.

Director
- Susanne Bier
Writers
- Susanne Bier
- Anders Thomas Jensen
Stars

See production info at IMDbPro

IMDb RATING

7.5/10

12K

YOUR RATING

Director
- Susanne Bier
Writers
- Susanne Bier
- Anders Thomas Jensen
Stars

See production info at IMDbPro

Awards
- 13 wins & 21 nominations total

Photos20

+ 12

Top cast36

Edit

Ulrich Thomsen

Michael

Nikolaj Lie Kaas

Jannik

Connie Nielsen

Sarah

Sarah Juel Werner

Natalia

Rebecca Løgstrup

Camilla
(as Rebecca Løgstrup Soltau)

Bent Mejding

Henning

Solbjørg Højfeldt

Else

Niels Olsen

Allentoft

Paw Henriksen

Niels Peter

Lars Hjortshøj

Preben 2

Lars Ranthe

Preben 1

André Babikian

Nadeem

Lene Maria Christensen

J. Solvej

Laura Bro

Ditte

Henrik Koefoed

Bartender

Tom Mannion

Miles

Kae Bahar

Makmuhd
(as Karzan Sherabayani)

Waleed Elgadi

Samial-Tariq, Afghanistan
(as William El-Gardi)

Director
- Susanne Bier
Writers
- Susanne Bier
- Anders Thomas Jensen
All cast & crew
Production, box office & more at IMDbPro

More like this

7.5

7.5

7.6

7.7

7.1

6.8

7.9

7.6

7.7

7.0

7.4

Storyline

Edit

Did you know

Edit

Trivia
Along with King's Game (2004), this was the most successful and best reviewed Danish film of the year in its native country. However, neither of these two films was submitted by Denmark to the Oscars in the Foreign Language Film category. The Danish jury decided to send a documentary film, The Five Obstructions (2003), which had only been attended by 12,532 people in Danish theaters. This story made headlines, and Danish film producers officially stated that they would force the jury to pick Brothers (2004) or "Kongekabale" instead. The jury, however, did not change their minds, and "De fem benspænd" was sent to the Oscars. It was not among the eventual nominees. "Brødre" later won several awards across the world, including at the Sundance Film Festival, and opened to stellar reviews in the US. The jury later admitted that they possibly chose the wrong film to send to the Oscars that year.

Goofs
During the argument in the girls' room before the funeral, the time on the alarm clock in the background jumps ahead by several minutes between shots.

Quotes
Michael: I will always love you. That is the only truth that remains. Life is neither right nor wrong, good or bad. But I love you. That's all I know.

Connections
Featured in Dansk films bedste: Skurke, Dialekter og Forbudt kærlighed (2022)

User reviews49

Review

Featured review

9/10

brodre and brothers

We all know that American cinema can't help itself to do remake of foreign films... That's why i saw Brothers before this original danish movie. When in this one all appears to be shot in steady cam, the American way tries to put some melodramatic trigger.

This version is about feelings, about situation and personal change: life make us evolve like every decision we take and nothing is good or bad, there is a lot of in between. The chose to accumulate the short shootings, practically no music or just a few notes on one instrument,are trying to bring us along this day to day story really well interpreted. The characters in their flaws or every day basis are believable, there is not so much emphasis like in the good but too much American film. It's in their nature to modify, adjust the deepness of the movie and after seeing this 2004 version, we actually miss something: this authenticity.

In both versions, dialogs, ellipses are exactly the same, but characters turned out to be different. We actually have to exact opposite films and this is a real challenge to see both.