All Nordic articles – Page 29
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CommentCrime Scene
The Nordic countries appear to have a monopoly on crime fiction in print and on screen. So why is the world so mesmerized by the laconic northerners?
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NewsArcel's A Royal Affair to roll with Mikkelsen, Wikander
Zentropa readies Danish director Nikolaj Arcel’s 18th century palace love story, which has been four years in preparation.
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NewsNonStop full of energy at Berlinale
Swedish outfit acquires Sundance and Berlin titles The Future, Circumstance, Another Happy Day among others.
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Regional releasing
Nordisk is one of several major companies releasing across the Nordic region.
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The Woman Who Dreamed Of A Man
Young and beautiful K is dreaming about a stranger. In one of her travels she suddenly meets the man and her stable life with boyfriend, child and successful job is threatened.
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Everything Will Be Fine
A film director is the main reason for a traffic accident. He flees from the scene only to discover the next day that the man he ran down hides a secret able to overturn the government.
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Reykjavik Whale Watching Massacre
Reykjavik Whale Watching Massacre is a splatter movie of the goriest kind. The story is true to its genre, and the humour as black as it gets. Men turn into beasts and kindness is a weakness that can only lead to defeat.
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NewsMax Manus scriptwriter Thomas Nordseth-Tiller dies aged 28
Norwegian scriptwriter Thomas Nordseth-Tiller, who wrote Max Manus – Norway’s biggest cinema success since 1975 – died Tuesday (May 12) after a long illness. He was 28 years old.
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NewsNordisk Film & TV to support regional releases
Oslo-based Nordisk Film & TV Fund is launching scheme to support the distribution of Nordic films in the region.
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Accounts (Regnskap)
Ulrik is released from prison, having served 12 years for killing his wife’s lover. His son will have nothing to do with him; his former colleagues expect him to get back at the man who peached on him. What’s he to do?
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King Of Bastøy
In the winter of 1915, a riot among the 8-18-year-old inmates of the boys’ detention centre of Bastøy, in the Oslo fjord, is crushed by Norwegian troops
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Maskeblomstfamilien (literal translation: The Figwort Family)
Adrian is different. His father has killed himself, his mother is sick – an aunt takes care of him. It is difficult to sympathise with his behaviour; he doesn’t see himself as evil, he just doesn’t know what shame is
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Bad Faith (Ond Tro)
A woman witnesses a murder and becomes obsessed with the assassin, a serial killer
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Among Us (Anglavakt)
A chance encounter with a mysterious stranger turns a family’s life upside down
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Bad Family (Paha Perhe)
After their divorce the father brings up the son, while the mother has had custody of the daughter. 16 years later, after the mother’s death, brother and sister meet again