Mads Mikkelsen leads this 2020 Danish comedy-drama about four middle-aged teachers who decide, half as a joke and half in earnest, to run an experiment on themselves.
What is Another Round about?
Martin and three fellow high-school teachers are stuck in the same rut: careers that used to feel meaningful now feel flat, marriages running on autopilot, students who've stopped noticing them at all. Over drinks, one of them raises a theory floating around in Danish academic circles: that people function better, looser and sharper, with a small, constant amount of alcohol in their blood. Treating it as a private experiment, the four men start drinking on a fixed schedule during the workday, tracking the results the way scientists would. At first the change is almost startling; lessons come alive, confidence returns, home life improves. But a controlled experiment among friends rarely stays controlled, and as the men keep raising the stakes to chase that first spark again, the line between a clever theory and a serious problem gets harder for any of them to see.
About the cast
Mads Mikkelsen plays the group's quietest and most withdrawn member, a history teacher whose arc anchors much of the film's emotional weight, alongside Thomas Bo Larsen, Lars Ranthe, and Magnus Millang as the three friends who talk him into the experiment. Maria Bonnevie, Susse Wold, Helene Reingaard Neumann, and Diêm Camille G. round out the ensemble around them.
Context & significance
Director Thomas Vinterberg sets the film in the everyday texture of Danish school life rather than anywhere exotic, which is exactly the point: this could be any group of friends convincing each other that a bad idea is actually a breakthrough. The film moves fluidly between broad, funny set pieces and scenes that turn genuinely uncomfortable, refusing to settle into either pure comedy or a straightforward cautionary tale.
Watching Another Round on Ktime
Another Round is available on K-Time with both a Persian dub and Persian subtitles, so it works equally well for Farsi-speaking audiences and viewers who prefer the original Danish. Log in with a free K-Time account to start streaming; the page and this write-up can be read without an account.