Pusher II (2004)

User Rating:

7.1/10   

Director:

Nicolas Winding Refn

Writer:

Nicolas Winding Refn (writer)

Release Date:

25 December 2004 (Denmark)

Genre:

Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller

Plot:

Tony (Mads Mikkelsen) is released from prison - again. This time he has his mind set on changing his broken down life, but that is easier said than done... |

Plot Keywords:

Cocaine Use | Drug Pusher | BMW | Sex | Porn

Awards:

3 wins & 14 nominations

Cast

Mads Mikkelsen	...	Tonny
Jesper Salomonsen	...	Indsat# 5
Leif Sylvester	...	Smeden
Anne Sørensen	...	Charlotte
Øyvind Hagen-Traberg	...	Ø
Kurt Nielsen	...	Kusse-Kurt
Dan Dommer	...	Den gamle
Karsten Schrøder	...	Røde
Maria Erwolter	...	Gry
Zlatko Buric	...	Milo
Maya Ababadjani	...	Luder #1 (as Maya Sørensen)
Maria Mendoza	...	Luder #2
Aino Junka	...	Stripper (as April)
Michael Zile	...	Bartender
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Sofie Aaendal	...	Pige i Ferrari
David Adam	...	Natbus passager #1
Ilyas Agac	...	Lille Muhammed
Mia R. Andersen	...	Bryllupsgæst #6
Sune Andersen	...	Indsat #8
Latka Bakic	...	Bryllupsgæst #3
Anja Bertelsen	...	Kurt's datter
Henrik Blich	...	Biltyv #1
Henrik Boensvang	...	Bryllupsgæst #14
Vasilije Bojicic	...	Vanja
Linus Eklund	...	Natbus passager #2
Jan Fog	...	Mand i Ferrari
Tom Frederiksen	...	Bryllupsgæst #10
Charlotte Gamsberg	...	Bryllupsgæst #1
Pawel Godziak	...	Bryllupsgæst #7
Allan Grandal	...	Mand i metro
Luis Werner Grau	...	Valdemar
Flemming Hansen	...	Mand med hund
Thomas Harder	...	Biltyv #3
Albert Hatchwell	...	Bryllupsgæst #15
Rachied Isdrissi	...	Indsat #4
Salar Janabradeh	...	Indsat #6
Jasim Jasim Laut	...	Indat #10
Jeller	...	Bryllupsgæst #11
Jeanelie Jensen	...	Bryllupsgæst #9
Slavica Knezevic	...	Slavko
Markus Kolind	...	Bryllupsgæst #5
Jesper Kristiansen	...	Bryllupsgæst #2
Sven Erik Eskeland Larsen	...	Svend
Linse	...	Jeanette
Lennert Mouritzen	...	Bryllupsgæst #4
Kit Nielsen	...	Bartender
Sine Nielsen	...	Mia
Camilla Ramonn Olsen	...	Natbus passager #4
Jean Pierre Peuleve	...	Chief
Ayoub Salbi	...	Indsat #3
Lyami Salbi	...	Indsat #2
Geneal Sanders	...	Natbus passager #3
Thomas Scheer	...	Biltyv #2
Katinka I. Schyberg	...	Bryllupsgæst #13
Karsten Sø	...	Indsat #9
Natale Tupelli	...	Bryllupsgæst #12
Hakan Turan	...	Indsat #1
Huseyin Turan	...	Indsat #5
Knud Vesterskov	...	Indsat #7
Ronny Watt	...	Bryllupsgæst #8
Christian Wenkens	...	Bryllupsgæst #16
Lotte Wenkens	...	Lotte
Lasse Wenkers	...	Baby

Also Known As:

Pusher 2 (Denmark) (alternative spelling) (International: English title) (alternative spelling)
With Blood on My Hands: Pusher II (International: English title)
Pusher II: With Blood on My Hands (Australia) (DVD title)

Runtime:

100 min

Country:

Denmark | UK

Language:

Danish | Serbo-Croatian

Color:

Color

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Certification:

UK:18 | Germany:16 | Finland:K-15 | France:-16 | Australia:R (2007) | Denmark:15 | Norway:15 | Sweden:15 | New Zealand:R18

Filming Locations:

Copenhagen, Denmark

Company:

Billy's People

Trivia:

Nicolas Winding Refn made Pusher II (2004) and Pusher 3 (2005) to help fond his film company (Jang Go Star), which went bankrupt after the box office failure of Fear X (2003).

Goofs:

Crew or equipment visible: When Tony is riding in the subway, a camera is reflected in one of the windows.

Quotes:

Tonny: I was just trying to...
Smeden: [interrupts him] Trying? What's it like being such a dickhead, huh?

Movie Connections:

References Goodfellas (1990)

Soundtrack:

Tarok

As powerful as "once were warriors"

I've seen Pusher II during the Thriller and Film Noir Film festival in Cognac. It was a shock at the end. When lights were on, people don't say a word. The last time I was so mute was at the end of "once were warriors". The violence in Pusher II is so realistic, so close, so terrifying for the future of all the characters than we really hope there will be something, even very little, happy at the end to help us to breath. The main character seems to be a bad guy but he's a loser, looking for the love of a father. All his past, aka his friends, family, etc... are lost. i've met the director, he said this a real look on a way of life in his country; but don't think it's just outside : this story can exists everywhere. Some sequences are like nightmare without sleeping. And for the hero, the last hope in his life is a baby, his son, but for what kind of life ? Incredible, powerful, beautiful, PUSHER II mixes all these feelings to be one of the best movie of this year, a movie which marks your spirit like hot steel.