Drawing comparisons with the Coen brothers’ Fargo and the more droll of Tarantino’s body-count thrillers, Hans Petter Moland’s (Zero Degrees Kelvin) fourth collaboration with actor Stellan Skarsgård blends black humour (with a heart) and a perfectly constructed plot into a bloody revenge opus that made this a firm festival favourite

Having just won “Citizen of the Year” in his sleepy Norwegian community, unassuming snowplough operator Nils (Skarsgård) has his life and marriage torn apart by the death of his son, supposedly from a heroin overdose. Convinced that his son was not a junkie, he sets out to uncover exactly why the boy died, leading him to the criminal underworld and rival gangs led by "The Count” (Pål Sverre Hagen) and his Serbian nemesis "Papa" (the great Bruno Ganz). Yojimbo-style, Nils begins playing one side off against the other, body by body, until a full-on gang war erupts…