TrustNordisk Adds Sales on ‘The Quiet Ones’ (EXCLUSIVE)
TrustNordisk has added more key territory sales for “The Quiet Ones,” a heist action drama from Denmark’s Zentropa and director Frederik Louis Hviid premiering in TIFF.
Starring Gustav Giese, Amanda Collin and Reda Kateb, “The Quiet Ones” has closed Spain (Flins & Piniculas), Poland (MediaSquad), former Yugoslavia (Cinemania Group) and the Baltic states (Europos Kinas). Further deals are under negotiation. “The Quiet Ones” pre-sold to Magnolia Pictures for the U.S., Germany (Plaion) and South Korea (PoongKyong Sori). The Nordic release will be handled by Nordisk Film Distribution.
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Aimed at a “broad young audience,” says Zentropa’s Kasper Dissing, who produced “Another Round,” “The Quiet Ones” reconstructs in a fiction thriller the biggest robbery ever carried out in Denmark, pulled off just as the 2008 financial crisis hits Europe.
Giese, (“Riders Of Justice”) plays a frustrated boxer, boasting a remarkable six pack, tattoos and a facial scar wanting to do right by his wife and daughter bit as yet to score his first fight. He is approached by a Slimani (Reda Kateb, “Zero Dark Thirty,” “A Prophet”), a hardened sociopath, to mastermind a heist at a cash depot, after Slimani’s latest job, caught in a brutal prolog, has gone desperately wrong.
Collin (“The Promised Land”) is a security guard at the gas handling firm, who just wants to get a good job done. Turning at length on the meticulous prep for the job, the film builds inevitably to the heist.
In their own meticulous prep, the filmmakers sought out consultancy from one of the robbery’s real-life perpetrators.
“We started in 2020 after we connected with one of the robbers from the heist the story is based on,” Dissing has commented. “We did not want to embark on this film without having a first-hand witness from the gang on board, to tell us his story and educate us on the life of a criminal. He has been extremely generous with his story, which we took bits and pieces from in order to create our version of the largest heist in Danish history.”
Initial reviews at Toronto have run a large gamut, Daily Beast, one of the film’s biggest fans, hailing “The Quiet Ones” as “an intense powder keg of a movie that should be right up the alley of fans of ‘Heat.’”
Hviid’s debut feature, 2020’s police thriller “Enforcement,” was selected for Venice’s International Critics’ Week. He also co-created, and directed episodes on “Prisoner,” a 2023 Canneseries highlight.
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