I saw a trailer a few months ...

• Sep 15, 2005 04:00 AM ET
• by Maitland McDonagh

Question: I saw a trailer a few months ago and didn't recognize any of the actors, so it may have been a foreign film. It was about a set of brothers and a woman; one goes to war and is taken hostage. The family assumes he's dead and the other brother ends up falling in love with the wife; then the presumed-dead brother returns. Is this movie available on DVD or not even in theaters yet? It looked really interesting, and any help you could give me in finding it would be great.

Answer: You saw a trailer for the exceptional Danish film Brothers (2004). The only cast member most Americans would know is Connie Nielsen, who is Danish but had never made a film in her native language until Brothers; she started her movie career in France and then moved to the U.S., where she starred in films like The Devil's Advocate (1997) and Gladiator (2000). Nielsen plays the wife who must first adjust to the news of her husband's death and then deal with the changes in his personality when he returns from captivity in Afghanistan. Brothers has already played limited theatrical engagements in the U.S. but is not yet available on DVD. It's well worth keeping an eye out for.