Norway’s prime minister is kidnapped by terrorists and disappears without a trace. The terrorists make only one demand: that the politicians in power play a game of chess over the prime minister’s life. The chess pieces represent people who work for the state or as leaders in society, and every time the terrorists take a piece, a human must pay with their life. The politicians and their appointed rescue team, the Delta Squad, face an impossible dilemma: Can they afford to sacrifice other human lives to save the prime minister? With only 24 hours to win the game and no leads to go on, they have no choice but to play.

Directed by internationally acclaimed, John Andreas Andersen (The North Sea, 2021; The Quake, 2018) and based on the bestselling and critically acclaimed debut crime novel by Johan Høst, NATION’S GAMBIT is bound to take you on an unforgettable, fast-paced thrill ride. The film uses chess as an ambitious instrument to drive the story ahead, as it follows Delta Squad’s operational leader Anton Block and his right hand Björk Jónsdottir in a race- against-the-clock game of chess against a group of terrorists who have kidnapped the prime minister.

This financing is made possible through and benefits from the support of the Cultural and Creative Sectors Guarantee Facility with the financial backing of the European Union under the Creative Europe Programme.