The Escape
2009 · 114 MIN · IMDB 5.9 · 765 VOTES · DIR. Kathrine Windfeld
Overview
Danish journalist Rikke Lyngvig is taken hostage in Afghanistan by a terror group. With help from one of the terrorists, the young Nazir, Rikke manages to escape. On her return, she is soon declared the Danish Jessica Lynch and her career is launched into the spotlight. All the while Nazir flees from Afghanistan, heading for Denmark. When he finally seeks out Rikke, she is shocked and torn. Is she willing to help the man who threatened to kill her, and to jeopardize her new-found career? Their tumultuous encounter turns into an ill-fated confrontation with their own demons and a nation driven by a hunger for sensation and political populism.
Dialogue Timeline — 533 lines
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00:00:12 Nimbus Film presents
00:07:49 Could I have some juice, Dad?
00:17:22 You must avenge the death of your father.
00:19:29 Allah is great!
00:29:33 They have a few questions.
00:33:07 I can't stop thinking about...
00:35:05 It'll sell more papers, and we like that.
00:37:33 We can't make special laws for everybody.
00:40:26 No... Oh God. Not my son.
00:45:16 I was so afraid, Thomas.
00:48:14 Give us the cans!
00:53:24 What the hell?
01:01:00 What were you doing in the girls' section?
01:04:32 I love that you know what you want!
01:08:41 I know how the media will spin this.
01:15:51 It is him.
01:18:03 Why the hell didn't you tell us? - I didn't know what to do!
01:23:30 Right? One must help where one can.
01:27:53 You're losing sympathy from all corners because of your lies.
01:29:31 Nazir had recently lost his father in a demonstration in Gereshk.
01:31:12 - claimed responsibility for the US convoy blown up earlier this year.
01:35:06 Maybe he saved you in order to save himself.
01:39:54 Okay. Thank you.
01:46:26 So patience is the key word...