Cannes Best Actor Award winner Mads Mikkelsen (Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, Another Round) commands the screen with gritty intensity in this rousing Nordic historical drama set in the 1700s. In 1755, the impoverished Captain Ludvig Kahlen (Mikkelsen) sets out to conquer the harsh, uninhabitable Danish heath with a seemingly impossible goal: to build a colony in the name of the King. But the sole ruler of the area, the merciless Frederik de Schinkel (Simon Bennebjerg), arrogantly believes this land belongs to him. When de Schinkel learns that the maid Ann Barbara (Amanda Collin) and her serve husband have escaped for refuge with Kahlen, the privileged and spiteful ruler swears revenge, doing everything in his power to drive the captain away. From the acclaimed director of A Royal Affair, Nikolaj Arcel, the 'awe-inspiring' period epic is an expertly directed, gun-slinging tale.