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Lee is an aunt whose life mission is to protect her orphaned nieces, Imogen and Maeve, from a self-destructing world, raising them in isolation until an outsider threatens their peaceful existence.


Martin Vinge, former notorious journalist, now successful headhunter with a complicated personal life, is in all confidentiality contacted by 85 year-old N.F. Sieger, S.E.O. of Denmark's largest shipping company and oil empire. Sieger hires Martin to find an alternative heir to the firm instead of his son, Daniel Sieger, who for a long time has been destined to take the company into the next era. Martin starts coming up with suitable names for the position, but discovers that he has actually been entangled in a larger impenetrable power game aimed at deciding what is really going to happen to the company; a brutal power struggle that puts an intense pressure on Martin and his private life and relationships.

Lars Mikkelsen
Martin Vinge

David Bateson
Dr. Liebmann

Charlotte Fich
Pernille

Samuel Fröler
Roland Berger

Andrea Vagn Jensen
Anne Louise Sieger

Henning Moritzen
Niels Frederiks Sieger

Charlotte Munck
Nina

Burkhard Forstreuter
Christian Vestergaard

Søren Spanning
Vestergaards stemme (voice)

Troels Lyby
Troels
Headhunter is a thriller film released in 2009. Directed by Rumle Hammerich, it stars Lars Mikkelsen, David Bateson, Charlotte Fich. Martin Vinge, former notorious journalist, now successful headhunter with a complicated personal life, is in all confidentiality contacted by 85 year-old N.F. Sieger, S.E.O. of Denmark's largest shipping company and oil empire. Sieger hires Martin to find an alternative heir to the firm instead of his son, Daniel Sieger, who for a long time has been destined to take the company into the next era. Martin starts coming up with suitable names for the position, but discovers that he has actually been entangled in a larger impenetrable power game aimed at deciding what is really going to happen to the company; a brutal power struggle that puts an intense pressure on Martin and his private life and relationships.
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