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Nightwatch is a danois film of genre Thriller directed by Ole Bornedal with Nikolaj Coster-Waldau

Nightwatch (1994)

Nightwatch
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Length 1h47
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OriginDanemark
Genres Thriller,    Horror
Rating71% 3.597463.597463.597463.597463.59746

Nightwatch (Danish: Nattevagten) is a 1994 Danish thriller film directed and written by Danish director Ole Bornedal. The film involves Martin (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau) who gets a student job as night watchman at the Forensic Medicine Institute. When making his rounds he finds he must go to where the deceased people are kept. At the same time, a series of murders occur among women in Copenhagen as well as mysterious and unexplained things happening in the medical department.

Nightwatch was a success in Denmark and was shown at the Fantafestival in 1995. An American remake of the film which was also directed by Bornedal, was released in 1997. The original Nightwatch was included on a list of the top 100 Danish film as chosen by Kosmorama.

Synopsis

Un étudiant en droit est engagé comme veilleur de nuit à la morgue municipale. Des évènements étranges se déroulent.

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