Pusher: Trilogy - DVD

PUSHER TRILOGY Four-disc set includes Pusher (1996) Called a Scandinavian InchTrainspottingInch by critics, this edgy Danish drama follows a small-time Copenhagen drug dealer who loses his stash during a police raid and only has two days to pay off a big debt to his boss, or face the consequences. Kim Bodnia, Zlatko Buric, Laura Drasbaek star. RUNTIME 100 minutes. In Danish with English subtitles. C/Rtg NR Pusher II With Blood On My Hands (2004) Hard-boiled sequel to the 1996 Danish crime thriller picks up the story of small-time thug Tonny (Mads Mikkelsen) as he is released from prison. Eager to clear his debts, Tonny seeks employment from his disdainful father (Leif Sylvester), a mob boss who refuses to accord him a respectable position in the gang. When Tonny discovers he may have fathered a child of his own, he tries to conquer his fears before it's too late. Anne Sorensen, Kurt Nielsen also star. RUNTIME 96 minutes. In Danish with English subtitles. C/Rtg NR Pusher III I'm The Angel Of Death (2005) The concluding chapter in Nicolas Winding Refn's brutal underworld trilogy finds middle-aged, Balkan-born drug kingpin Milo (Zlatko Buric) desperate to protect his status in the Copenhagen underworld. Faced with the challenge of selling a shipment of designer drugs, Milo also tries to kick his own smack habit and arrange a birthday party for his grown daughter. Marinela Dekic, Ilyas Agac also star. RUNTIME 103 minutes. In Serbo-Croatian with English subtitles. C/Rtg NR

These films, in the spirit of the Infernal Affairs Trilogy which inspired the Departed, are to Hong Kong triad cinema what the Godfather II and Goodfellas are to US mob cinema. The collection features Election, Triad Election and Triad Underworld.

PUSHER TRILOGY Four-disc set includes Pusher (1996) Called a Scandinavian InchTrainspottingInch by critics, this edgy Danish drama follows a small-time Copenhagen drug dealer who loses his stash during a police raid and only has two days to pay off a big debt to his boss, or face the consequences. Kim Bodnia, Zlatko Buric, Laura Drasbaek star. RUNTIME 100 minutes. In Danish with English subtitles. C/Rtg NR Pusher II With Blood On My Hands (2004) Hard-boiled sequel to the 1996 Danish crime thriller picks up the story of small-time thug Tonny (Mads Mikkelsen) as he is released from prison. Eager to clear his debts, Tonny seeks employment from his disdainful father (Leif Sylvester), a mob boss who refuses to accord him a respectable position in the gang. When Tonny discovers he may have fathered a child of his own, he tries to conquer his fears before it's too late. Anne Sorensen, Kurt Nielsen also star. RUNTIME 96 minutes. In Danish with English subtitles. C/Rtg NR Pusher III I'm The Angel Of Death (2005) The concluding chapter in Nicolas Winding Refn's brutal underworld trilogy finds middle-aged, Balkan-born drug kingpin Milo (Zlatko Buric) desperate to protect his status in the Copenhagen underworld. Faced with the challenge of selling a shipment of designer drugs, Milo also tries to kick his own smack habit and arrange a birthday party for his grown daughter. Marinela Dekic, Ilyas Agac also star. RUNTIME 103 minutes. In Serbo-Croatian with English subtitles. C/Rtg NR