SYNOPSIS

January 21st 1968 – An American B-
52 bomber carrying nuclear warheads has just crashed on the polar ice near the US military Air Base in Danish controlled Thule, Greenland.

 

A few days later, responsible governments classify the crash as a Broken Arrow scenario (nuclear accident) but proclaims the situation being under control. No cause for concern in relation to radioactive contamination or violation of foreign power’s sovereignty, nuclear policy. Hundreds of Thule workers are set to work, helping in the gigantic clean-up operation. After eight months, all traces of the crashed aircraft and the plutonium-contaminated snow are gone.

The case is closed.

 

18 years on, while covering a local workers compensation story, reporter Poul Brink, suddenly runs into suspicious circumstance linking back to the concealed 68’ nuclear accident. Apparently the full and true story about the crash lays well-protected deep under the Thule Bay’s ice cap and deep down the classified archives in the US.

 

The ambitious reporter launches an uncompromising investigation. The deeper he goes the further he finds himself in the heart of an International cover-up so immense in size that it holds 2 nations across the Atlantic culpable. Soon those in charge are finding it hard to keep the truth about tragic accident under wraps, and will take any measure to suppress Brink.

FESTIVALs & AWARDS

Best Director Beijing International Film Festival 2016

Los Angeles Scandinavian Film Festival ASFLA

Torino International Film Festival

Leeds Int. Film Festival

Lübeck Nordische Filmtage

Sao Paolo Int. Film Festival

 

 

Original titleIdealisten Domestic releaseApril 9th 2015 DirectorChristina Rosendahl WritersLars K Andersen, Simon Pasternak, Birgitte Stærmose and Christina Rosendahl ProducersJonas Frederiksen, Signe Leick Jensen & Ane Mandrup CastPeter Plaugborg, Søren Malling, Thomas Bo Larsen, Arly Jover, Jens Albinus Nordic distributionSF Film Distribution International salesLevelK FinanceThe Danish Filminstitute, Nordic Film & TV Fund, DR Filmklubben, Beofilm Post Production, Tonemestrene Studio, The Media Programme of The European Union