Pusher III

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Pusher III, For I am the Angel of Death is a 2005 Danish crime film by writer/director Nicolas Winding Refn. It is the final film of the Pusher trilogy and released in August 2005.

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[edit] Synopsis

The movie opens in Copenhagen with Milo, an aging Serbian druglord, attending a meeting for Narcotics Anonymous. The five-days-sober Milo admits that he is worried that the stress of cooking for his daughter's 25th birthday celebration will cause him to relapse into using. Milo departs the meeting to pick up a drug shipment with his henchman Branko. Though he paid for heroin, the shipment turns out to be 10,000 ecstasy pills. Seeking an explanation, Milo meets with his Albanian supplier Luan. The Albanians agree to send a new shipment of heroin and allow Milo to try to sell the ecstasy as well.

After a quick talk with his demanding and spoiled daughter, Milena, Milo goes back to his kitchen to cook for the party. After Milo forces his henchman to try his cooking, he meets his associate Little Mohammed, who has come to drop off his daily yield. The pugnacious Mohammed warns Milo to respect younger hoods like himself, but Milo mockingly calls him the "King of Copenhagen." However, as Milo knows nothing about ecstacy, he needs Mohammed to set up a buyer for the pills. When all of Milo's henchmen get food poisoning from his cooking, Milo has no choice but to trust Mohammed to make the sale alone and return within an hour.

The birthday celebration begins and Milo splits his time mingling with guests, cooking, and trying to contact the tardy Mohammed. While buying wine at an underground store, Milo learns that Milena's boyfriend, Mike, is in fact a small-time drug dealer. He arranges for Mike to buy heroin only from him and then haggles with his daughter over the price. While waiting in a restaurant for an emergency supply of fish, Milo bumps into Kurt the Cunt, a low-level drug dealer who gives him some heroin. The over-stressed Milo breaks down and smokes some of it. Having not heard from Mohammed in four hours, Milo contacts a corrupt cop, who promises to find him.

Milo meets with Luan to admit that he lost the ecstasy and cannot pay for them. The Albanians force Milo to become their subordinant in a human trafficking scheme, using his kitchen as a hideout. Rexho, an Albanian crook, and a Polish pimp arrive to sell a young girl into prostitution. Milo tries to distance himself from the transaction in disgust, but Rexho demands that he serve them food. Milo gives the girl a piece of his daughter's birthday cake when she reveals that it is her birthday as well. After Rexho leaves, the girl attempts to flee, but Milo helps run her down. The furious pimp begins savagely beating the girl, which ultimately sends Milo over the edge. He kills the pimp, then waits for Rexho to return and kills him as well.

Out of options, Milo seeks help from his old friend and ex-henchman Radovan, who left the underworld to start a successful restaurant. Radovan agrees to help Milo one last time. When the corrupt cop returns with Little Mohammed, Randovan helps Milo torture him. Mohammed reveals that the ecstacy pills Milo had received were fake. Milo and Radovan stash Mohammed in an ice chest and begin butchering the two corpses for disposal.

At dawn, Milo returns to his tranquil home and talks with Milena. She wonders why he disappeared during the party, then goes to bed. Milo walks into the backyard and silently smokes a cigarette while looking into his empty swimming pool.

[edit] The trilogy

Main article: Pusher trilogy

This film is the final film in Pusher trilogy. The previous two movies take place in the same fictional Copenhagen underworld. The first film, Pusher followed Frank (Kim Bodnia), a mid-level drug dealer who becomes indebted to Milo in a similar way that Milo later becomes indebted to the Albanians. Radovan appears in this film as Milo's most trusted enforcer and admits to a desire to leave the underworld and open a restaurant. Milena's boyfriend Mike also appears as a drug-dealing bodybuilder who is robbed by Frank. Branko also appears as one of Milo's other henchmen.

The second film, Pusher 2, follows Frank's estranged partner Tonny (Mads Mikkelson) as he struggles with his relationship with his father and the prospect of becoming a father himself. Milo and Little Mohammed appear in this film and Kurt the Cunt has a larger role as Tonny's untrustworthy friend.

[edit] Cast

  • Zlatko Buric as Milo, a middle-aged Serbian drug lord
  • Marinela Dekic as Milena, Milo's strong-willed daughter
  • Ilyas Agac as Little Mohammed, an ambitious young drug-dealer
  • Vanja Bajicic as Branko, Milo's henchman
  • Kujtim Loki as Luan, Milo's Albanian drug supplier
  • Ramadan Huseini as Rexho, a weasely Albanian gangster and Luan's interpreter
  • Levino Jensen as Mike, - Milena's boyfriend
  • Slavko Labovic as Radovan - Milo's old friend and former henchman
  • Kurt Nielsen as Kurt the Cunt, a particularly loathsome drug dealer
  • Hakan Turan as Ali, Little Mohammed's partner

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[edit] Music

  • Keli Hlodversson
  • Peter Peter

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