EXCLUSIVE: Danish heist pic The Quiet Ones, which debuted at the 2024 Toronto International Film Festival, is set for a February 21 release in the U.S. via Magnolia’s Magnet label.
The film is based on the real life story of the largest heist in Danish history. Starring are Gustav Giese, Reda Kateb (Django) and Amanda Collin (Raised By Wolves).
The synopsis reads: “In 2008, a group of men from Denmark and across Europe pulled off the biggest heist of all time on Danish soil. Kasper, a boxer with few chances left in life, is offered the opportunity to plan the robbery by its foreign initiators. At the risk of losing his family and everything that matters to him, he takes on the challenge in a bid to break all records and secure his place in the history books.”
Producers are Kasper Dissing of Zentropa (Another Round) and Thomas Kristensen. Frederik Louis Hviid directs from a script by Anders Frithiof August. The crime-action movie is told in Danish, English, Swedish and Arabic. Next festival berth is Palm Springs in early January.
Magnet releases have included Jason Yu’s Sleep and Animal Kingdom from Thomas Calley.
