This exceptional dystopian production is a masterclass in symbolic storytelling. Its target is the modern archetype: the nine-to-five employee whose company HR mandates camaraderie, whose home is a catalog of IKEA furniture, and whose leisure is systematically scheduled. The film presents a world utterly sanitized of all profound emotion and flavor, a reality so sterile that the main character doesn't even engage with the audience's inherent questions of origin and purpose. It is an essential viewing experience and a brilliantly executed dystopia.
Forty-year-old Andreas arrives in a strange city with no memory of how he got there. He is presented with a job, an apartment - even a wife. But before long, Andreas notices that something is wrong. Andreas makes an attempt to escape the city, but he discovers there's no way out. Andreas meets Hugo, who has found a crack in a wall in his cellar. Beautiful music streams out from the crack. Maybe it leads to "the other side"? A new plan for escape is hatched.
Quick Stats
7.1
TMDB Rating
272
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1h 35m
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Key Crew
DirectorJens Lien
WriterPer Schreiner
CinematographyJohn Christian Rosenlund
ComposerGinge Anvik
EditorVidar Flataukan
Production DesignAre Sjaastad
Produced by
Sandrew Metronome Norge
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1 featuredCast
Trond Fausa Aurvåg
Andreas
Petronella Barker
Anne Britt
Per Schaanning
Hugo
Birgitte Larsen
Ingeborg
Johannes Joner
Håvard
Ellen Horn
Trulsen
Anders T. Andersen
Harald
Sigve Bøe
Liten mann
Hanne Lindbæk
Vigdis
Bjørn Jenseg
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Jo Strømgren
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