Open Hearts (2002)
Open Hearts, is a 2002 Danish drama film directed by Susanne Bier using the minimalist filmmaking techniques of the Dogme 95 manifest. It stars Mads Mikkelsen, Nikolaj Lie Kaas, Sonja Richter and Paprika Steen. Also referred to as Dogme #28, Open Hearts relates the story of two couples whose lives are traumatized by a tragic car accident and adultery. Joachim, a young man, is made a tetraplegic and hospitalized indefinitely by a car accident after being hit by Marie. Marie's husband Niels is a doctor at the hospital, and he falls for Joachim's fiancee Cecilie, and they have an affair. Niels then leaves his wife, teenage daughter and two young boys for Cecilie, who abandons Joachim.
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Cast:
- Stine Bjerregaard
- Michel Castenholt
- Hans Henrik Clemensen
- Jens Basse Dam
- Ida Dwinger
- Susanne Juhasz
- Nikolaj Lie Kaas
- Ronnie Hiort Lorenzen
- Mads Mikkelsen
- Tina Gylling Mortensen
- Birthe Neumann
- Anders Nyborg
- Niels Olsen
- Pelle Bang Sørensen
- Philip Zandén
- Ulf Pilgaard
- Birgitte Prins
- Sonja Richter
- Paprika Steen
- Hanne Windfeld