Held for Ransom
2019 · Movie · 138 min · ★ 7.1 · 85% critics
Based on real events, a Danish photojournalist is taken hostage in Syria and faces a long, brutal captivity while trying to hold onto hope. Back home, his family and a hostage negotiator work under intense pressure to bring him safely home.
Also known as 398 Days: Hostage · Daniel
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Details
- Original title
- Ser du månen, Daniel
- Years
- 2019
- Release date
- 2019-08-29
- Language
- Danish
- Runtime
- 138 min
- Max quality
- HD
- Critic score
- 85/100
- TMDB rating
- 7.1/10 (77 votes)
About
You’ll likely connect with this if you want an intense, fact-based survival drama focused on endurance, family anguish, and high-stakes negotiations; Not for you if you avoid bleak hostage stories or on-screen brutality.
Pros: gripping true-story drama; strong lead performance; tense emotional stakes | Cons: harrowing hostage violence; heavy, bleak tone; distressing subject matter
Themes
- based on novel or book
- affectation
- based on true story
- hostage-taking
- terrorism
- hostage situation
- hostage negotiator
- syria
- angry
- aggressive
- candid
- desperate
- +15 more
Cast & crew
Esben Smed
as Daniel Rye
Toby Kebbell
as James Foley
Amir El-Masry
as John (Beatles)
Sara Hjort Ditlevsen
as Signe
Charlie Carrick
as Michael Foley
Anders W. Berthelsen
as Arthur
Fady Elsayed
as George (Beatles)
Rafael Pettersson
as Wojceik
Ardalan Esmaili
as Majeed
Elizabeth Moynihan
as Diane Foley
Directed by Niels Arden Oplev