Efter brylluppet (After the wedding in the english version) is a 2006 Danish drama directed by Susanne Bier, in which a manager of an orphanage in India is sent to Copenhagen, Denmark, where he discovers a life-altering family secret. It stars Mads Mikkelsen and Sidse Babett Knudsen. The film was a critical and popular success and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, but lost out to The Lives of the Others. Time magazine’s Richard Schickel named the film one of the Top 10 Movies of 2007, ranking it at #4, calling it a “dark, richly mounted film”. While Schickel saw the film as possibly “old-fashioned stylistically, and rather manipulative in its plotting”, he also saw “something deeply satisfying in the way it works out the fates of its troubled, yet believable characters.”
