After the Wedding
2006 · Movie · 124 min
★ 7.2(496)unSUB Rating
A Danish man running an underfunded orphanage in India travels to Copenhagen to secure a crucial donation from a wealthy benefactor. What begins as a simple business trip turns into an emotionally charged reunion, forcing him to face long-buried connections and difficult choices about responsibility, loyalty, and what family really means.
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Details
- Original title
- Efter brylluppet
- Years
- 2006
- Release date
- 2006-02-24
- Language
- Danish
- Runtime
- 124 min
- TMDB rating (input)
- 7.1/10 (496 votes)
About
If you like intense, character-driven dramas about family ties, moral pressure, and class contrasts, this delivers big feelings and tough conversations; Not for you if you dislike melodrama, slow builds, or heavy emotional themes like Open Hearts.
Pros: powerful emotional pull; gripping family drama; strong performances | Cons: occasionally soap-opera feel; pacing runs long; some plot choices divisive
Themes
- daughter
- copenhagen, denmark
- marriage crisis
- orphanage
- wealth
- wedding
- india
- family
- woman director
- fear of dying
Awards & recognition
- Academy Award — Best International Feature Film · 2007 · nominated
- International Submission to the Academy Awards · 2007 · nominated
- European Film Award — Best Director · 2006 · nominated
- European Film Award — Best Actor · 2006 · nominated
Cast & crew
Mads Mikkelsen
as Jacob Pederson
Stine Fischer Christensen
as Anna
Sidse Babett Knudsen
as Helene
Rolf Lassgård
as Jørgen
Christian Tafdrup
as Christian
Ida Dwinger
as Annette
Mona Malm
as Famor
Neel Rønholt
as Mille
Anne Fletting
as Secretary
- FE
Frederik Gullits Ernst
as Martin
Directed by Susanne Bier