Movie: A Conspiracy of Faith

Based on Danish author Jussi Adler-Olsen’s international bestsellers, the riveting Department Q series introduces maverick detective Carl Mørck (Nikolaj Lie Kaas) who, after majorly botching an assignment, is relegated to reviewing cold cases. With his new partner Assad (Fares Fares) and secretary Rose (Johanne Louise Schmidt), the moody Mørck digs into shocking unsolved mysteries including the kidnapping of a high-ranking government official, a brutal prep school murder and a bloody message from two children presumed dead.

When an eight-year-old message in a bottle washes up on the shore of Jutland, written by a boy purporting to be held in captivity, Carl Mørck and Assad’s investigation leads them to a local fundamentalist religious community where several disappearances of children have gone unreported — including siblings Samuel and Magdalena, who have recently vanished. As Mørck and Assad dig deeper into the case, the religious connection to the disappearances raises philosophical questions for each, and before long they find themselves on the track of a highly dangerous criminal who has left a trail of kidnappings and murders in his wake.

Directed by Hans Petter Moland (Denmark, 2015).