The good old classic quote "There's something
rotten in the state of Denmark" rings true these days, although it is
probably not quite in the way it was meant when written by William Shakespeare
in "Hamlet"!
In directors Martin Sonntag and Bastian Brinch
Pedersen's near-doomsday prediction "Escaping the Dead", Copenhagen
reaks of rotten flesh after having come under attack of the living dead and the
last remaining survivors fight for their lives.
The film stars Bastian Brinch Pedersen (who is also the
co-director and producer of the film) as David, Rama Øzel as Ahmir, along with
Daniel Hutera, Ali Öezkan, Iben Ma Bønnelycke, Nicolai Huan Nguyen, Camilla
Ludvigsen and Kim Sønderholm ("Blood Fare", "The
Winedancers", "Sinister Visions") playing Lars - a policeman
that David comes across during his run out of the city.
Director
Martin Sonntag about the film:
"The
film is inspired by a series of articles about the deathdrug
"Krokodil" that was published about the same period of time when
Ronald Poppo had his face eaten by a naked man hooked on bathsalt in Miami. We
saw it as the perfect zombie plot: a deathdrug that turns people into zombies.
The
film has its starting point in a typical day for the lead character, David.
David is the local marihuana pusher, but he is the kind of dealer that smokes
more than he sells. In the meantime the country has been hit by a new deathdrug
and when David and his partner in crime Ahmir is offered some exceptionally
cheap cocaine they see it as an opportunity to earn big money at the big techno
concert the following Friday, but the cocaine turns out to have a terrible side
effect that creates a giant zombie outbreak that spreads across the entire
Copenhagen. In the film we follow David and his bloody fight out of the
city."
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