Atlantic Crossing

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Cinematographer: Carl Sundberg

Director: Alexander Eik

Producer: Anni Faurbye Fernandez, Silje Hopland Eik

Writer: Alexander Eik, Linda May Kallestein

Production designer: Jette Lehmann

Editor: Morten Rørvig, Silje Nordseth

Cast: Harrier Sansom Harris, Kyle MacLachlan, Sofia Helin, Tobias Santelmann

Production Company: Cinenord Drama

Distribution company (world): Beta Film

Year: 2020

Country: Norway

Time: 53

Date and place:

2020.11.15, 11:00virtual CSW - Kino Centrum

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It is often said that the victors write history, which is undoubtedly true, as the losers tend to be quickly forgotten. There is another side, though, as many victors - people whose work was important to humankind’s development - are forgotten, too. People such as Crown Princess Märtha, whose merits in defending European democracy during World War II cannot be overstated, became an obscure figure even in her native Scandinavia. The series depicts her most active years when, in 1940, as a result of Nazi Germany’s invasion of Norway, she escapes with her family across the Atlantic and becomes a trusted adviser to President Franklin D. Roosevelt. The media gossip that it is more than just friendship, which bothers the royal family in Europe, but truthfully, the princess does not have time for flirting. She actively tries to convince the still-neutral United States of America to support the Norwegians’ fight for freedom. Strong and independent, Märtha knows what she must do, but living in this strange land among strange people is not easy.

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