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:

2 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:

Leif Sylvester had stopped acting for over seven years, but came back when he was offered the role of 'Smeden'.

Goofs:

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

Quotes:

Tonny: Can I smash your TV?
Kusse-Kurt: Sure. We'll smash everything.

Movie Connections:

References Goodfellas (1990)

Soundtrack:

Du Har Chancen

Gritty, bleak and unforgettable

Dedicated to Hubert Selby Jr., Pusher II moves in the familiar territory of the New York writer, night scenes populated by strippers, drug addicts and hopeless petty criminals. Unlike Last Stop Brooklyn, and the first movie in the trilogy, Pusher ends on a high, pun not intended, with a glimmer of hope to illuminate the Scandinavian night that most of this movie seems to embrace.

Eight years have gone by since Frank from Pusher broke Tonny's head with a baseball bat. Frank is now gone, and Tonny, the eternal screwup, seeks criminal success working for the big boss himself: his father. What he finds of course is deceit, empty violence, cocaine-fueled failures of all kinds.

Even when seeking redemption in a loveless world Nicolas Winding Refn's characters are still unable to talk except that with fists or knives, unable to act or to stop acting if not by chemically quelling one's fears. This movie is less violence, but perhaps even scarier than Pusher II. It is because of the absolute absence of human empathy or maybe just because is a little bit of Tonny in all of us.