Pusher 3 (2005)

User Rating:

6.9/10   

Director:

Nicolas Winding Refn

Writer:

Nicolas Winding Refn (writer)

Release Date:

2 September 2005 (Denmark)

Genre:

Action | Comedy | Drama | Horror | Thriller

Tagline:

I'm the Angel of Death.

Plot:

In this third installment of the 'Pusher' trilogy, we follow Milo ('Zlatko Buric'), the drug lord from the two first films...

Plot Keywords:

Pusher | Heroin | Drug Lord | Ecstasy | Drugs

Cast

Zlatko Buric	...	Milo
Marinela Dekic	...	Milena
Ilyas Agac	...	Little Mohammed
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Gitte Dan	...	Lis
Dan Dommer	...	Gamle
Ramadan Huseini	...	Rexho
Levino Jensen	...	Mike
Slavko Labovic	...	Radovan
Sven Erik Eskeland Larsen	...	Svend
Kujtim Loki	...	Luan
Marek Magierecki	...	Mitja
Kurt Nielsen	...	Kusse-Kurt
Susan Petersen	...	Marie
Karsten Schrøder	...	Røde
Hakan Turan	...	Ali

Directed by
Nicolas Winding Refn

Writing credits (in alphabetical order)
Nicolas Winding Refn		writer

Produced by
Johnny Andersen	....	line producer
Mikkel Berg	....	executive producer
Henrik Danstrup	....	producer
Kim Magnusson	....	executive producer
Kenneth D. Plummer	....	executive producer
Rupert Preston	....	executive producer
Luise Thiele	....	line producer

Original Music by
Peter Peter

Cinematography by
Morten Søborg		(director of photography)

Film Editing by
Miriam Nørgaard
Anne Østerud

Casting by
Pernille Lembecke

Production Design by
Rasmus Thjellesen

Costume Design by
Jane Whittaker

Makeup Department
Trine Cordes Berg	....	assistant makeup artist
Sofie Jørgensen	....	assistant makeup artist
Bjørg Serup	....	makeup department head

Production Management
Ariette Walsøe Busch	....	production manager

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Niels Nørløv Hansen	....	first assistant director
Hans-Henrik Tønnesen	....	second assistant director

Art Department
Lars Fog-Møller	....	property master
Rasmus With	....	property master

Sound Department
Jens Bønding	....	sound
Jens Danielsen	....	special sound effects
Mikkel Groos	....	sound
Martin Langenbach	....	foley artist
Jacques Pedersen	....	boom operator
Lars Rasmussen	....	sound mixer
Henning Wedege	....	sound

Special Effects by
Morten Jacobsen	....	special effects

Visual Effects by
Lars Bjørn Hansen	....	digital compositor
Anders Marker	....	digital intermediate

Stunts
Dennis Albrechtsen	....	stunts
Stig Günther	....	stunts

Camera and Electrical Department
Andreas Balslev-Olesen	....	grip
Franz Borde	....	clapper loader
Jonathan Go-Matsushima	....	gaffer
Adam Jandrup	....	electrician
Jens Juncker-Jensen	....	still photographer
Michael Rosenløv Jensen	....	first assistant camera (as Michael Rosenløv)
Tue Støresmo	....	electrician

Costume and Wardrobe Department
Sarah Rasmussen	....	costume assistant

Editorial Department
Ejvind Bording	....	color timer
Peter Diemar	....	color grader
Helle Hansen	....	negative cutter
Simon Harder	....	assistant editor
Evelyn Kristiansen	....	negative cutter
Lone Goldie Møller	....	editing coordinator (as Goldie Møller)
Kaspar Astrup Schröder	....	assistant editor
Mia Bang Steenberg	....	post-production coordinator (as Mia Bang Stenberg)

Music Department
Troels Alsted	....	music recordist
Mads Heldtberg	....	musician

Other crew
Helle Bruun Andersen	....	accountant
Sedsel Andersen	....	continuity
Peter Hingebjerg	....	production assistant
Lennart Jakobsen	....	runner
Ada Kaalund	....	accountant
Hanne Merkx	....	accountant
Charlotte Sommer	....	laboratory coordinator
Lars Valentin	....	location scout manager
Louise Van Hauen	....	runner
Henrik Zein	....	production accountant

Production Companies

• Det Danske Filminstitut
• Nordisk Film
• TV2 Danmark
• Pusher III Ltd.
• NWR Film Productions

Distributors

• Les Acacias (2006) (France) (theatrical)
• Vertigo Films (2006) (UK) (theatrical)
• Accent Film Entertainment (2007) (Australia) (DVD)
• Galileo Medien AG (2006) (Germany) (DVD)
• Magnolia Pictures (2006) (USA) (all media)
• Nordisk Film Biografdistribution (2005) (worldwide) (all media)
• Nordisk Film International Sales (2005) (worldwide) (all media) (sales)

Other Companies

• Filmgear  lighting equipment
• Kameraudlejningen  camera equipment
• Mainstream ApS  sound re-recorded at
• Nordisk Film Audio  sound editing
• Sweet Silence Studio  music recorded at

Also Known As:

I'm the Angel of Death: Pusher III (International: English title)

Runtime:

90 min | Chile:104 min (Toronto International Film Festival)

Country:

Denmark

Language:

Serbian | Danish | Polish

Color:

Color

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Certification:

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

Filming Locations:

Copenhagen, Denmark

Company:

Det Danske Filminstitut

Trivia:

The people at the NA-meetings are real drug-addicts.

Goofs:

Continuity: When Milo is speaking at his daughters birthday party, the type of glass he is holding changes twice.

Quotes:

Rexho: You work for us now.
Milo: I work for nobody.
Rexho: You want me to call Luan? And tell him that you said that?

Movie Connections:

References King Kong (1933)

Long day's journey into an even longer night

It must be hell being Milo. This film starts off as one of those "everything-goes-wrong"- movies that were so in vogue in the mid-nineties – although the focus here is not some spectacular heist but a routine heroin deal, all in a day's work for aging mid-level Serb gangster Milo.

In a way, the plot (not the film) starts out resembling that part in Goodfellas, where Ray Liotta has to keep his mind on a lot of different things at the same time and ends up being busted.

Milo also has a lot of things to mind – the heroin shipment from Holland, the preparations for his daughter's twenty-fifth birthday, keeping his NA appointments and actually staying off blow and tar for his daughter's sake as he's promised himself. The fact that he has to cook the whole birthday dinner for a party of 50 himself, and that his daughter is a full- blown Serbian bitch, surely doesn't help matters much.

Then there are some unforeseen complications which I will not discuss, but that seem to be evidence that the gods or somebody must be against poor Milo. Where most of the problems facing Pusher II:s anti-hero Tönnie seems to stem from his own weakness (and thus are perfectly believable), the combination of shortcomings that Milo faces seems a bit more far- fetched.

But anyway, that doesn't make this film less worth viewing. Just like the two other parts of the trilogy, it's a dark, depressing story full of characters and surroundings that seem perfectly real in every sense. The Scandinavian criminal underworld, with its Serbs, Albanians, Arabs and natives. Copenhagen is in many ways the heaviest of the capitals of Scandinavia, and has been rife with organized and not-so-organized crime since well back in the seventies.

One thing has to be said about the main character, Milo. The way he's portrayed in this film, I found myself having to remind myself of the Milo of the first Pusher film, the smiling gang boss having his henchman torturing small-time dealer Franke with electric wires. Whatever happens to Milo in this film, he's deserved it. Just keep that in mind.