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Department Q: A Conspiracy of Faith (2016)
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Department Q: A Conspiracy of Faith (2016)
Original name: Flaskepost fra P
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Denmark, Germany, Sweden, Norway
Duration: 112 min.
Story: An old note is found in a bottle in Jutland which has travelled across the ocean for a long time. The note is hard to decipher, but when the Danish investigators from Section Q receive it, the odd personalities within the section find a new angle on it and try to unveil yet another old and diabolic case even though the lead is cold.
Style: exciting, enigmatic, suspenseful, disturbing, noir, clever, dark, twisted
Plot: cold case, religion, police investigation, child abduction, suspense, missing child, police, serial killer, letter, depression, farm, secretary, brother brother relationship, religious faith, police protagonist, message in a bottle, teenager, murderer, psychopath, police officer, train, investigation, warrior, undercover, murder mystery ...
Place: denmark

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