War Sailor

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Cinematographer: Sturla Brandth Grøvlen

Director: Gunnar Vikene

Producer: Maria Ekerhovd

Writer: Gunnar Vikene

Production designer: Tamo Kunz

Editor: Anders Albjerg Kristiansen, Peter Brandt

Cast: Ine Marie Wilmann, Kristoffer Joner, Pål Sverre Hagen

Production Company: Falkun Films, Mer Film AS

Distribution company (world): Norsk filminstitutt - Norwegian Film Institute (NFI)

Distribution company: Norsk filminstitutt - Norwegian Film Institute (NFI)

Year: 2022

Country: Norway, Germany, Malta

Time: 150

Date and place:

2022.11.14, 19:00Cinema City - Screening Room No. 11

2022.11.13, 10:00CKK Jordanki - Main Screening Room

When German submarines attack their merchant ship at the outbreak of WWII, two Norwegian sailors try to survive, in a hope to reunite with their families. Alfred Garnes is a working-class sailor, who has recently become the father of a third child. He and his childhood friend Sigbjørn Kvalen (Wally) are working on a merchant ship in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean when World War II breaks out. They are unarmed civilians on the front lines of a war they never asked to join. The two men struggle for survival in a spiral of violence and death, where at any moment German submarines may attack their valuable vessels. The wartime sailors have one goal: to survive - and to return home. Meanwhile, Alfred’s wife Cecilia struggles through the war alone in Bergen, raising three children on her own, not knowing whether she will ever see Alfred again.

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