Official Selection out of Competition | Norway | Norwegian | 92 min
On July 22, 2011, more than 500 youths at a political summer camp on an island outside Oslo were attacked by a heavily armed right-wing extremist. The murderous assault claimed 69 lives. Director Erik Poppe reconstructs the gruesome events of that summer in the traumatic story told from the point of view of the victims.
Over the last 20 years, director and screenwriter Erik Poppe has established himself as an auteur whose films are not to be missed. After an illustrious career in photography and photo-journalism that earned him the Kodak Award, he transitioned into cinema and studied film in Sweden and Norway. Poppe’s Oslo-based trilogy, consisting of Schpaaa (1998), Hawaii, Oslo (2004) and Troubled Water (2008) was widely celebrated. From exploring global conflict through a photo-journalist’s trauma in A Thousand Times Good Night (2013), to revisiting Norway’s response to the German threat in World War II in The King’s Choice (2016); Poppe portrays human beings who make tough choices under exceptional circumstances.
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