Enforcement
Short description
Two police officers, Jens and Mike, are patrolling the Svalegården ghetto when they learn that a nineteen-year-old man named Talib Ben Hassi has died while in police custody. The news sparks violent unrest and a desire for revenge among the local youth. Trapped in the neighborhood as the situation escalates into a conflict, the two officers must fight to survive and find a way out of the urban area.
This Danish action thriller was directed by Anders Ølholm and Frederik Louis Hviid, who also wrote the screenplay. It is the first of two films they directed together, followed by The Quiet Ones in 2024. The movie stars Simon Sears as Jens Høyer and Jacob Lohmann as Mike Andersen, with supporting roles played by Tarek Zayat, Issa Khattab, Abdelmalik Dhaflaoui, and Özlem Sağlanmak. The production was handled by Toolbox Film.
The film received a moderate reception from audiences and critics. On IMDb, it holds a 6.5 rating based on 7,800 votes, while on TMDB it has a score of 6.3 from 244 votes. Film critics provided a rating of 6.5 based on 27 reviews, matching the score given by users on IMDb.
What's left behind the scenes
- The film depicts the fictional ghetto of Svalegården.
- The working title of the script was “Panser,” which translates from Danish as “armor,” “breastplate,” or “armament,” and in slang means cops. But the director and screenwriter Anders Elholm changed it to “Shorta” (which translates from Arabic as “police”).
- During the scene where the characters, played by Jakob Loman and Issa Hattaab, meet in an underground parking garage, the inscription “jusqu'ici tout va bien” (which translates to “so far, so good”) is visible in the background. This is a reference to Mathieu Kassovitz’s crime drama “Hate” (1995).
- At the end of the film, the audience hears a radio conversation between director Anders Elholm and screenwriter Dennis Petersen, a former police officer hired for the project as a technical consultant.
- Before the start of filming, Simon Sears and Jakob Loman, who play the main characters, underwent special training with technical advisor Dennis Petersen.
- The character played by Dan Boie has a tattoo on his chest that reads “Born to lose.” According to director and screenwriter Anders Elholm, this is a reference to Michael Mann’s action film “Heat” (1995).
- Anders Elholm began working on the script in 2015. Initially, his friend Fredrik Louis Hviid was to be the film's director, but Elholm asked the producers to make him a co-director, and they agreed.
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