David Dencik joins Ethan Hawke in Alejandro Amenabar's "Regression"

PanARMENIAN.Net - Swedish actor David Dencik is joining Ethan Hawke and Emma Watson in The Weinstein Co. thriller Regression, written and being directed by Alejandro Amenabar, The Hollywood Reporter said.

Fernando Bovaira, Amenabar's longtime partner at MOD Entertainment, is producing with Christina Piovesan.

TWC/Dimension will release the film in 2015 with FilmNation Entertainment handling international sales.

Dencik will play a man who is arrested in a Minnesota town for sexually abusing his daughter. He has no memory of the crime, but with the psychologist unravels a memory that implicates a police officer (Hawke). However, other townspeople find themselves discovering suppressed memories of horrific abuse, leading the officer to uncover a national supernatural conspiracy.

Dencik, who turned heads with his work in Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, recently completed a supporting role in director Daniel Alfredson's The Kidnapping of Freddy Heineken, opposite Anthony Hopkins, Sam Worthington and Jim Sturgess. He also recently wrapped a role in The Homesman, a Tommy Lee Jones Western with Meryl Streep and Hilary Swank.