Director: Zinnini Elkington
One split-second decision under pressure sends ripples through an entire hospital ward in Second Victims, a compact 2025 Danish drama about the human cost of medical error.
What is Second Victims about?
Alexandra is used to carrying more than her share on a busy neurological ward, and on this particular shift she takes on extra responsibility without hesitation, the way she always has. But amid the noise and speed of the department, one misjudgment slips through, and the consequences are immediate and irreversible. The film shifts its focus away from the patient and toward everyone left standing afterward: the colleagues who have to keep working the same shift, the institution that has to account for what happened, and Alexandra herself, who has to live with a decision made in seconds. Rather than building toward courtroom drama or easy blame, the story stays grounded in hospital corridors and quiet aftershocks, examining how a single error travels outward and reshapes the people closest to it. It's a tightly focused character study about guilt, professional pressure, and the invisible toll carried by those who work inside high-stakes systems every day.
Cast & crew
Özlem Sağlanmak leads as Alexandra, with Trine Dyrholm, Olaf Johannessen, Iman Meskini, Anders Matthesen, Morten Hee Andersen, Mathilde Arcel Fock, and Anne Sofie Wanstrup filling out the hospital's ensemble of colleagues and administrators.
Context & significance
Directed by Zinnini Elkington, Second Victims is a 2025 Danish drama running 92 minutes, and its title refers to a real term used in medicine for caregivers who are themselves traumatized after being involved in an adverse patient event.
Where & how to watch
Second Victims streams on K-Time with Persian dubbing and Persian subtitles available for Farsi-speaking audiences. This page is free to read, and watching only requires signing into a K-Time account, on a platform designed around a Farsi-first experience for viewers across the diaspora.