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EXCLUSIVE: LevelK has boarded connected income connected Frederik Louis Hviid’s thriller Torpedo, co-written pinch Tobias Lindholm (Another Round, The Hunt), delving into nan world of “torpedoes”, aliases youngsters groomed by organised crime gangs to do their soiled work.
The woody sees nan Copenhagen-based income institution squad pinch Nordic movie and TV powerhouse SF Studio. The latter’s Marcella Dichmann is lead shaper connected nan film.
Set successful nan coming day, nan movie focuses connected 16‑year‑old Kian who thinks he had recovered a speedy measurement to gain money and climb nan pack level by proving he will do immoderate is asked of him.
When he is sent to Copenhagen for his first assignment, reality hits hard. Within 24 hours, he is expected to termination a man chosen by his handlers. Backing retired is nary longer an option. Refusal won’t only put him astatine risk. It will endanger his family arsenic well.
Hviid points to nan truth that though nan arena of “torpedoes” is comparatively new, it has dispersed accelerated passim Europe.
In April 2025, Swedish authorities launched Operation Grimm, a awesome world crackdown coordinated pinch Europol and 10 European countries, including each nan Nordic countries, France, Germany, nan UK, Spain, Belgium and nan Netherlands. This led to 280 arrests worldwide successful nan first twelvemonth of operation, while practice pinch awesome tech companies was deepened. Despite these efforts, nan recruitment of young group into convulsive organised crime coming continues to rise.
“To maine it has been important to understand what happens erstwhile unit is perpetrated by young group who person not chosen to do truthful and who cannot yet comprehend nan consequences of their actions,” said Hvidd.
“It is simply a matter we person seldom seen successful Danish film, and hence nan activity on Torpedo has required extended investigation earlier we could execute immoderate measurement of truth. The collaboration pinch Tobias, whom I judge is 1 of nan astir trend-setting voices successful Danish film, has been some inspiring and basal to springiness nan communicative nan bosom and unrelenting realism it demands.”
“With his attraction connected nan scary reality successful Denmark, Frederik’s thought for nan movie moved maine greatly,” adds Lindholm. “As grounds from nan acheronian broadside of nan Danish dream, and a uncommon opportunity to attraction connected nan kids who vanish successful nan promises and lies of nan world of crime.”
Hviid first collapsed done internationally pinch his characteristic movie debut Shorta, which debuted successful Venice Critics’ Week and past sold worldwide.
He has since built a estimation 1 of known Denmark’s astir uncompromising board pinch nan award-winning TV series Prisoner (2023) and astir precocious with The Quiet Ones (2024) which premiered astatine nan Toronto International Film Festival.
One of Denmark’s astir award-winning and internationally acclaimed screenwriters and directors, Lindholm’s penning credits see Thomas Vinterberg’s Oscar-winning Another Round and The Commune, while his board credits feature A Hijacking, TV mini-series The Investigation and Netflix-backed The Good Nurse with Jessica Chastain and Eddie Redmayne, for which he besides wrote nan screenplays.
“Frederik and Tobias person an exceptional expertise to move fear, paralysis and split‑second decisions into gripping, cinematic moments. This is precisely what a communicative like Torpedo demands,” says LevelK CEO Tine Klint. “Their heavy knowing of criminal environments, paired pinch a uncommon affectional precision, gives nan movie a earthy authenticity. As a director, Frederik developed a unique cinematic sound that ne'er moralises and ne'er simplifies. He lets nan assemblage consciousness nan world from nan inside.”
“Torpedo is a movie which has evolved from a heavy interest for our children and youngsters,” adds Dichmann.
“It is simply a achy story, but a basal one. As a shaper – and arsenic a mother – I consciousness a beardown request to create a abstraction for reflection and understanding. It is fiction, but fabrication which is frighteningly adjacent to nan reality of our regular lives. The ambition is to make a rubbing and thrilling movie that will enactment pinch america agelong aft nan lights are turned connected successful nan theatre.”
