The other morive about a hijacking on the high seas

I'm sure Captain Phillips is a great movie and I'll probably see it and be impressed like everyone else but it's hard to imagine a better movie on the theme of at-sea kidnapping by Somali pirates (why are there suddenly two of these movies within the span of a year?) than the Danish A Kidnapping. Told with incredible efficiency and understatement, this film puts us right in the midst of the captured ship, and we suffer along with the crew, in particular the cook, whom we see in the first sequences talking to his wife and daughter home in Denmark and about whom we soon learn, to his later chagrin, that he is competent in English - he later becomes the captors link to his fellow crew members and to the owners back in Denmark - which brings us to what's even more remarkable about this fine movie: it's not just about the tension on board the captured ship, great a story as that may be, but also about the tension, guilt, and duplicity going on back in Denmark among the ownership - in fact the real star of the movie is not necessarily the ship's cook but the company CEO, Peter: in an early scene we see him as the tough negotiator and steely boss cutting a deal w/ a Chinese team for the sale of a few ships. After the hijacking, he hires an outside expert to consult on the negotiating process but defies advice and insists on doing the negotiating himself - admirable, in that he's taking ownership of the situation but also, perhaps, foolishly cocky in thinking he can handle any situation when in fact he's in uncharted territory. There are many moments of moral ambiguity, as he tries to work out a deal with the pirates without jeopardizing the men, but also with a sharp eye on the company bottom line. The expert he hires is very self-confident - his main advice is don't give in to their initial demands because they'll see you're weak and demand more - but every moment of delay means more suffering for the captured crew, and perhaps more danger. It's really tough to know what to do, who's right who's wrong - and eventually we learn, particularly through one surprising and explosive scene, the toll this is taking on the CEO as well. A really fine and understated movie, and I wish it could find one twentieth of the audience that Captain Phillips has found.