''In Order of Disappearance'' () is a 2014 Norwegian

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directed by

Hans Petter Moland Hans Petter Moland (born 17 October 1955) is a Norwegian film director. Career Moland was born in Oslo. He had received awards for his commercials at major festivals, including Cannes, before he made his feature debut in 1993 with ''The Last Lieu ...

and starring

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. The film had its premiere in the competition section of the

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. ''

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'', an English-language

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, also directed by Moland, was released in 2019.

Plot

Nils Dickman is a

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driver in the fictional town of Tyos, Norway, just elected citizen of the year. His life, however, is shattered by the death of his son Ingvar, found dead by overdose of heroin. The police do not investigate but Dickman is sure that his son wasn't a drug user. When he is about to kill himself he learns from Finn, his son's friend, that Ingvar was mistakenly killed by a gang of drug dealers who actually intended to kill Finn; Nils begins to hunt for his son's murderers. He finds Jappe, one of the killers, and kills him after extracting the name of his accomplice, Ronaldo. Ronaldo tells Nils the name of the drug carrier, Strike, before being killed too. After killing Strike, concealing the bodies of the three gangsters and destroying 15 kilos of cocaine, Nils goes in search of the boss of the gang. He contacts his brother Egil, a former criminal now going straight. Egil advises him to hire a hitman to assassinate the powerful chief of criminals, the

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gangster nicknamed Greven (The Count). Nils hires the Danish-Japanese hitman Kineseren (The Chinaman). Greven, who has lost three men and a lot of money, blames his competitors, a

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family, with whom there has always been a territorial agreement. He sends his henchmen to kidnap one of the gang. The man reveals nothing and Greven kills him, unaware that he is the son of the Serbians' chief, the fearsome Papa. Kineseren asks Greven for a payoff and tells him that he has been hired by a man called Dickman. Greven assumes this is ex-criminal Egil, and goes to him for explanations. Egil understands the situation and allows himself to be executed to save Nils. After multiple complications, there is a gunfight at Nils's workplace in which all the gangsters are killed except Nils and Papa, who drive away together, both satisfied for having their sons avenged.

Cast

as Nils Dickman * Pål Sverre Valheim Hagen as Ole Forsby ("Greven") *

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as "Papa" Popović *

Birgitte Hjort Sørensen Birgitte Hjort Sørensen (born 16 January 1982) is a Danish actress. She has been nominated for three Robert Awards and one Bodil Award. Born in Hillerød and raised in Birkerød, Sørensen aspired to an acting career after watching the West ...

as Marit *

Anders Baasmo Christiansen Anders Baasmo (born 29 January 1976) is a Norwegian actor originally from Hamar. Baasmo earned his breakthrough in 2003 when he received the Amanda award for his performance in the Norwegian picture '' Buddy''. He won the TV award Gullruten in ...

as Geir * Hildegun Riise as Gudrun Dickman * Peter Andersson as Egil Dickman ("Wingman") *

Kristofer Hivju Kristofer Hivju (; born 7 December 1978) is a Norwegian actor. He is best known for playing the roles of Tormund Giantsbane in the HBO fantasy series ''Game of Thrones'' and Connor Rhodes in '' The Fate of the Furious''. Early life Hivju was ...

as Stig Erik Smith ("Strike") *

Jan Gunnar Røise Jan Gunnar Røise (born 24 September 1975) is a Norwegian actor. He was born in Eidsvoll, and took his education at the Norwegian National Academy of Theatre. He made his stage debut in 2000 at the National Theatre, and has been employed there ...

as Jan Petter Eriksen ("Jappe") *

Kåre Conradi Kåre Conradi (born 11 January 1972) is a Norwegian actor. Conradi was born in Asker and he is a graduate of the Norwegian Theatre Academy and the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. He made his stage debut at Oslo Nye Teater in 1989, was ...

as Ronny Amundsen ("Ronaldo") *

Jakob Oftebro Jakob Hoff Oftebro (born 12 January 1986) is a Norwegian actor. He has appeared in more than twenty films since 2004 including Hamilton and ''Kon-Tiki'', which was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film at the 85th Academy ...

as Aron Horowitz ("Junior") * Gard B. Eidsvold as Halldor Emmanuel Torp ("Svela") * Tobias Santelmann as Finn Heimdahl *

Jon Øigarden Jon Øigarden (born 31 May 1971) is a Norwegian actor, who is well known for his role as journalist Peter Verås in the TV series ''Mammon'', Jarl Varg in Norsemen, and other Norwegian films. Career Jon Øigarden was educated at the Norwegian N ...

as Karsten Petterson * Jack Sødahl Moland as Rune Forsby *

Sergej Trifunović Sergej Trifunović ( sr-cyr, Сергеј Трифуновић, ; born 2 September 1972) is a Serbian actor, comedian, singer, politician and citizen activist.

as Nebojša Mihajlović * Miodrag Krstović as Dragomir Bogdanović * Leo Ajkic as Radovan Župan * Goran Navojec as Stojan Micić * Damir Babovic as Vuk Jovanović * David Sakurai as Takashi Claus Nielsen ("The Chinaman") * Aron Eskeland as Ingvar Dickman *

Atle Antonsen Atle Antonsen (born 11 August 1969, in Lillehammer) is a Norwegian comedian and actor. Antonsen has participated in and contributed to several television and radio shows, including ''XL'' and ''XLTV'' (1998–99), '' Nissene på låven'' (20 ...

as Reddersen * Stig Henrik Hoff as experienced police officer * Adil Halitaj as Miroslav Popović

Reception

On review aggregator

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, the film holds an approval rating of 85% based on 61 reviews, with an average rating of 7/10. The website's critical consensus reads, "''In Order of Disappearance''s black comedy doesn't always hit its targets, but on the whole, it still adds up to a sly, entertaining revenge thriller." On

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, which assigns a normalized rating to reviews, the film has a

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score of 74 out of 100, based on 20 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews".

Adaptation

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and producer

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produced an English-language remake, ''

'' with the same director, Hans Petter Moland, and starring

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. The film was released on 8 February 2019 by

Summit Entertainment Summit Entertainment, LLC (formerly the Summit Group, Summit Export Group, Summit Entertainment Group Inc., Summit Entertainment Limited, Summit Films Limited, and Summit Entertainment N.V.) is an American film production label of Lionsgate Film ...

References

External links

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