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In August 2008, the small European country of Denmark was rocked by the biggest heist in the nation’s history. That heist is brought to thrilling life in Frederik Louis Hviid’s The Quiet Ones, out this weekend. The film follows the fictional Kasper (Gustav Giese), a boxer who’s struggling to balance his burgeoning career with an ongoing life of crime. When Kasper is offered the opportunity to help plan the biggest robbery the nation has ever seen, targeting a cash-processing facility in the capital Copenhagen, it is too tempting to refuse.
Kasper is based on a real person, Steffen Baadsgaard Andersen, who was involved in the 2008 heist—and provided valuable insight in the making of The Quiet Ones, says director Frederik Louis Hviid. Andersen came to Hviid’s attention when he read the 2015 book Røver, by Peter Sloth, which covers Andersen’s extensive criminal history and recounts his involvement in the heist. After some convincing, Andersen agreed to work with Hviid on the film and share his memories. It’s fairly unprecedented territory: the other prominent example of this is the spectacular French heist film Le Trou (1960), in which real-life criminal Roland Barbat (under the stage name Jean Keraudy) was cast as himself and served as a consultant on the film.
Andersen doesn’t appear in the film, but his expertise was especially vital in the depiction of the heist itself, according to Hviid. “From when they get into the cars to when they arrive back at the farm, that is done with 100% accuracy,” he says. “And I can only say that with confidence, because Steffen, when he saw the film, said ‘This is exactly 100% as I remember it.’”
Here’s what to know about The Quiet Ones and the biggest heist in Danish history.
How did the heist portrayed in The Quiet Ones happen in real life?
The heist occurred at a cash processing site in the Danish capital of Copenhagen—a Danish Value Handling facility—located within a storage unit. As one of…
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