BBC Four

Knowledge, arts, music and culture from the UK and the world.

BBC Four reflects arts, music and culture with an ambitious range of intellectually and culturally enriching programmes, taking an expert and in-depth approach to its subjects.

BBC 4

Department Q

Films

Drama: Crime

Drama: Thriller

Danish crime thrillers based on the novels by Jussi Adler-Olsen.

Nikolaj Lie Kaas

Fares Fares

Sonja Richter

Per Scheel Kruger

Troels Lyby

Oyvind B Fabricius Holm

Soren Pilmark

Divya Das

Peter Plaugborg

Mikkel Boe Folsgaard

Claus Maack Bahnsen

Nynne Bojsen

Marie Hammer Boda

Ernst Boye

Marie Mondrup

Rasmus Botoft

Patricia Schumann

Mikkel Norgaard

Nikolaj Arcel

Peter Aalbaek Jensen

Department Q: The Keeper of Lost Causes

The Keeper of Lost Causes

15/10/2016

BBC Two - Department Q, The Keeper of Lost Causes

Danish thriller. A detective is thrown into the mystery of a politician's disappearance.

Danish thriller. A troubled detective reviews a cold case and is thrown headlong into the mystery of a politician's disappearance during a ferry crossing five years earlier.

Carl Morck, a troubled detective, is assigned to the newly created 'Department Q', a basement-bound job filing cold cases. He is allocated an assistant, Assad, and between them they review the case files to determine which ones can be closed. Always one to go against orders, Morck throws them headlong into the mystery of a politician's disappearance during a ferry crossing five years earlier. 

Based on the first of Jussi Adler-Olsen's 'Department Q' series of novels.

In Danish with English subtitles.

BBC Two

BBC Two is a TV channel that started broadcasting on the 20th April 1964.

BBC 2

BBC2

BBC Two is a lively channel of depth and substance, carrying a range of knowledge-building programming complemented by great drama, comedy and arts.

BBC Four HD

BBC Two Scotland

BBC Two Northern Ireland

Until 03/01/2009 BBC Two Wales (analogue) was known simply as BBC Two Wales. BBC Two Wales (digital) was BBC 2W. From 03/01/2009 BBC Two Wales schedules on both analogue and digital became identical

Accessibility links

Programme Index

Department Q

The Keeper of Lost Causes

Contributors

Genres

Formats

Brand

BBC Four

About BBC Four