Description:
An ingenious black comedy containing elements of action thriller and absurdity, Riders of Justice's original plot and unexpected ending make it another highlight in Jensen's oeuvre.
Markus (Mads Mikkelsen), a deployed military man, is forced to return home to care for his teenage daughter after his wife is killed in a tragic train accident. It seems to be plain bad luck - but it turns out that it might have been a carefully orchestrated assassination, of which his wife ended up being a random casualty. Together with data analyst Otto, his eccentric colleague Lennart and their even stranger friend Emmenthaler, Markus embarks on a mission to find those responsible.
"The film is a fable, set in a framework of realism. It is the tale of a group of people all of whom, on the same day, lose their sense of security as well as their life's foundation. In meeting each other they eventually respectively find: love, self-respect, trust and the feeling of belonging to a place. Everyone ends up experiencing a kind of trust, whether that is in themselves, in God or in life's coincidences. The film depicts how our lives are affected when the unthinkable occurs. How do we keep our faith in life when we no longer believe in anything?" (Anders Thomas Jensen)