One by one (2014)

Movie
German title	One after the other
Original title	Power idiots
Country of production	Norway , ; Sweden , ; Denmark
original language	Norwegian , ; English
Publishing year	2014
length	117 minutes
Age rating	FSK 16
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Director	Hans Petter Moland
script	Kim Fupz Aakeson
production	Finn Gjerdrum , ; Stein B. Kvae
music	Brian Batz , ; Kaspar Kaae , ; Kåre Vestrheim
camera	Philip Øgaard
cut	Jens Christian Fodstad
occupation
	Stellan Skarsgård : Nils Dickman; Bruno Ganz : Papa; Pål Sverre Valheim Hagen : "Count" Ole Forsby; Jakob Oftebro : Aron Horowitz; Anders Baasmo Christiansen : Geir; Birgitte Hjort Sørensen : Marit; Kåre Conradi : "Ronaldo" Ronny Amundsen; Kristofer Hivju : "Strike" Stig Erik Smith; Peter Andersson : "Wingman" Egil Dickman;

The film comedy One after the other by the Norwegian director Hans Petter Moland premiered in February 2014 under the title Kraftidioten (Norwegian for "the complete idiot"; English title In Order of Disappearance ) in the competition of the 64th Berlinale . The film distributor Neue Visionen released the film in German cinemas in November 2014. With Hard Powder Moland shot a remake with Liam Neeson in the lead role.

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The native Swede and snow plow driver Nils Dickman is named “Resident of the Year” in his hometown in southern Norway . On the day of the award ceremony, his son Ingvar is killed by two gangsters in a forcibly injected drug overdose. The police believe that Ingvar was a junkie and consumed the overdose himself and the investigation is closed. However, Dickman is convinced that his son was not a drug addict, which leads to a falling out between him and his wife and plunges him into a deep depression. When he tried to kill himself a short time later in his company workshop by being shot in the head with a gun, he met a drug addict friend of his son who was hiding in the workshop from the local branch of the drug mafia. Dickman learns from this friend that Ingvar has become a victim of this drug mafia. He then decides to investigate on his own. He finds, tortures and kills three members of this mafia one after the other, destroys their smuggled drugs and makes the bodies disappear.

The head of the Norwegian Mafia, the "Count", suspects the Serbian competition behind the disappearance of his people and the drugs, has one of their members killed and hangs the dead - intentionally or not - on a sign with the geographical height indication "1389 meters", the year of the battle on the Amselfeld (1389) . There the young man is found by members of the Serbian mafia. It turns out that he was the only son of the clan chief papa. He swears vengeance - "an eye for an eye, son for son ".

In the meantime, Nils has found the count who has a son who lives alternately with him and with his mother Marit. Since he cannot get close to the Count, he asks his brother Egil Dickman for advice, who has a criminal past under the name "Wingman", but has since retired. He found him a Danish, Japanese-born contract killer, the "Chinese", who should kill the count. The "Chinese" does not do his job, however, but reveals the name of his client, "Dickman", to the count in order to obtain a higher fee. However, he is then killed by the count's people. The count visits "Wingman" because he wrongly assumes that this "Dickman" is the client of the Chinese. Wingman knows that he will not have much longer to live due to cancer and, in order to protect his brother, takes responsibility for the murder order, whereupon he is killed by the count.

The count, who is now aware that the Serbs are not responsible for the deaths of his people, shoots one of his employees and has his head delivered to the competitor as a gift of reconciliation. This killed man was in a love affair with another mafia member, which nobody in the gang knew. The Serbs do not accept the offer of reconciliation and the messenger is shot by Papa on the spot.

In retaliation, two Serbs are said to kidnap the count's son from school. However, Nils intends to do the same and anticipates them both. Nils quarters the count's son and reads to him in the evenings when he cannot fall asleep, for lack of other literature than bedtime story, from a brochure on his snow blower.

The school caretaker, who had observed that Nils was the kidnapper, reveals to the count the name ("Dickman") that he had read on the escape vehicle the next day for a fee - Nils had used one of his company's delivery trucks. The caretaker is then killed by the count's men. Shortly afterwards, the lover of the beheaded mafia member reveals the address of Nils' company to the Serbs. A showdown will then take place on the company's premises . All Norwegian and Serbian mafia members except for papa and the count's son (who was hidden by Nils) are killed. Nils himself survived the battle. Papa and Nils, the two fathers whose only sons were killed, leave the crime scene with one of Nils' snow blowers . The last Serbian mafia member who stayed in a nearby hotel lands with his paraglider right in front of the milling machine and is chopped up.

Reviews

“A highlight [...] is the Norwegian film by Berlinale guest Hans Petter Moland, who [...] this time is there with the very black Stellan Skarsgård crime comedy 'Kraftidioten'. [...] one of many small, funny details [...] that 'power idiots' may not turn into a masterpiece, but into bitter fun. "

- Daniel Sander : Spiegel Online

“Spiced with more than just a pinch of pitch-black humor, when you see the endless expanses of Norwegian snowy landscapes, the American small town ' Fargo ' comes to mind, which the Coen brothers once thought of with their genre mix of black humor, lots of blood and beautiful pictures Set a monument. "

- Martin Zeising : tip

“Moland can't get rid of the ghosts he called with this cynical story of revenge. The killing becomes independent, and only the obituaries keep the whole thing still a remnant of human dignity. "

- Sascha Westphal : epd film

"The sarcastic, blood-drenched comedy combines laconic depictions of violence with weird characters, without reaching the tension of relevant American genre models."

- Film service