
“The Company Basher”) (2003) and “The Washington Decree” (2006). He made his debut with the thriller “Alfabethuset” (1997), which reached bestseller status both in Denmark and internationally just like his subsequent novels “And She Thanked the Gods” (prev. The film topped the local box office in 2013 with 725,000 Danish moviegoers buying tickets.Jussi Adler-Olsen is a Danish author who began to write novels in the 1990s after a comprehensive career as publisher, editor, film composer for the Valhalla cartoon and as a bookseller. The film was first shown at the Gothenburg Film Festival in January 2013, followed by several more film festivals before its cinema release in Denmark on 3 October 2013.

Because of their action and the prominence of the case, the police chief reinstates the duo as detectives. Ĭarl and Assad locate the pressure chamber and rescue Lynnggard as she is about to die, and they arrest Larsa. Lynnggard is revealed to be imprisoned in a pressure chamber by a vengeful chef named Larsa. Mørck ruffles feathers and is told to halt the investigation, but he and his assistant Assad persist.Īs the duo investigate the case further, they get into trouble with Swedish police and are suspended, but they still continue to persevere in their investigation. His investigations suggest that the victim, a rising politician named Merete Lynnggard, was actually kidnapped. One case, a suspected suicide, piques his interest. It is the first film in the Department Q film series, followed by The Absent One (2014) and A Conspiracy of Faith (2016).Ĭarl Mørck is demoted to Department Q, the cold case unit, after a raid he instigated goes wrong.

The movie is based on the novel by Jussi Adler-Olsen.

The Keeper of Lost Causes ( Danish: Kvinden i buret), also known as Department Q: The Keeper of Lost Causes, is a 2013 Danish film directed by Mikkel Nørgaard.
