Pusher

Opens Friday, May 8, 2026

PUSHER is the story of Frank (Kim Bodnia), a small-time drug dealer who is about to experience the worst week of his life. After a complicated heroin deal goes wrong and he loses both the money and the merchandise, Frank finds himself massively in debt to the Balkan drug baron Milo. The squeeze is on and as the week passes the pressure mounts, with Frank trying to repay the money in the face of Milo’s increasing frustration and his own latent self-destructiveness. Come Friday, as the Saturday deadline looms, nothing happens. As Frank launches one last desperate push to raise the missing funds, it appears less and less likely he will manage to emerge from this hellish week unscathed…

• Country Denmark
• Language Danish with English subtitles
• Year 1996
• Running Time 110 minutes
• Format DCP
• Distributor Magnolia
• Director Nicolas Winding Refn
• Cast Kim Bodnia, Zlatko Buric, Mads Mikkelsen, Laura Drasbaek, Slavko Labovic, Peter Andersson

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