Pusher III (2005)

Milo tries to be a family man and run his criminal organization but a wrong drug shipment endangers everything.

Director:

Nicolas Winding Refn

Writer:

Nicolas Winding Refn

Stars:

Zlatko Buric, Marinela Dekic, Slavko Labovic

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Zlatko Buric	...	Milo
Marinela Dekic	...	Milena
Slavko Labovic	...	Radovan
Ramadan Huseini	...	Rexho
Ilyas Agac	...	Lille Muhammed
Kujtim Loki	...	Luan
Vasilije Bojicic	...	Branco (as Vanja Bajicic)
Levino Jensen	...	Mike
Marek Magierecki	...	Mitja
Sven Erik Eskeland Larsen	...	Svend
Karsten Schrøder	...	Røde
Hakan Turan	...	Ali
Susan Petersen	...	Marie
Gitte Dan	...	Lis
Tommy Christensen	...	KA Mand 1

Storyline

In this third installment of the Pusher trilogy we follow Milo, the charismatic Serbian (bad) cook slash Copenhagen druglord preparing the food for his daughter's birthday, attending rehab meetings from his drug addiction and -conform Pusher tradition- getting involved in a drug deal that does not quite work out as planned...

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Plot Keywords:

drug deal | drug addict | drug abuse | pusher | heroin | 

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Taglines:

I'm the Angel of Death.

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Genres:

Crime | Drama | Thriller

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Certificate:

Not Rated

Details

Official Sites:

Official site Official site [Niue]

Country:

Denmark

Language:

Serbian Danish Polish

Release Date:

2 September 2005 (Denmark)

Also Known As:

Pusher 3

Filming Locations:

Copenhagen, Denmark

Company Credits

Production Co:

Det Danske Filminstitut,Nordisk Film,TV2 Danmark

Technical Specs

Runtime:

90 min 104 min

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

Just like Pusher (1996) and Pusher II (2004), all the scenes were shot in order.

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Goofs

When Milo and Radovan are taking care of the first body, Radovan slits the man's throat as he hangs upside down from the ceiling. A bucket that has been placed beneath him fills with the man's blood, and Radovan instructs Milo to empty it and bring it back. When he picks up the bucket, the plastic underneath it is covered with blood. However, when he brings the empty bucket back and replaces it beneath the man, the plastic covering is clean. After Radovan eviscerates the man, and Milo once again removes the bucket, the plastic is again covered in blood.

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Quotes

Rexho: Don't be so stressed, Milo. It's not healthy for an old man like you to get so stressed.

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Connections

Featured in NWR (Nicolas Winding Refn) (2012)

User Reviews

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.