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N�R M�RKET ER FORBI
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Norway
2000 / 35 mm / Color / 100 min.
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PASSING DARKNESS
A personal betrayal causes Josef Omgang to leave a seemingly successful life as a young attorney in Oslo. Drifting between dream and reality, he returns to his childhood home of Korshavn, a fishing village he hasn't seen for years. Through meetings with his mother, Tatjana -- of whom he has only vague recollections -- her modern counterpart Doris, and Anna the messenger, his journey also becomes the journey into his own frozen and crippled inner self. Reaching home, he finds a village in financial ruin, which corresponds to his own -- and his family's -- personal crisis. Reluctantly, and driven by impulses he hardly understands himself, he is forced into a seemingly ambiguous conflict -- until he is confronted with a final choice: only if the past -- represented by his father -- is destroyed, can a new age begin, both for his home village and for himself.
Caught in the paralyzing embrace of the far north, the characters in PASSING DARKNESS writhe and remember in a difficult but fascinating brew of obsession, murder, sex, money, family guilt and postwar politics. -- Deborah Young (Variety)
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Script: Alf R. Jacobsen, Knut Erik Jensen. D'apr�s le roman de/Based on the novel by: Alf R. Jacobsen.
Phot.: Svein Kr�vel.
Cast: Stig Henrik Hoff, G�rild Mauseth, Nicholas Hope, Snorre Tindberg, Gunnel Lindblom.
Prod.: Jan-Erik Gammleng, Barentsfilm AS, Wedel Jarlsbergsvei 36. P.O. Box 275, 1319 Bekkestua (Norv�ge), t�l.: (47) 88 00 32 30, fax: (47) 88 00 32 34, e-mail: [email protected] / Norsk Film AS / BV Film International, Kvalav�gveien 156, P.O. Box 17, 4299 Avaldsnes (Norv�ge), t�l.: (47) 52 84 64 60, fax: (47) 52 84 64 61, e-mail: [email protected].
Sales: BV Film International.
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Knut Erik Jensen
Born in Honningsv�g, in Norway's far north, Knut Erik Jensen studied French, Russian and history before attending the London International Film School. In 1978 he joined the staff of the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation (NRK Television) for which he made numerous documentaries and shorts. In 1986 he directed Finnmark Between East and West, a TV series documenting the history of the region through World War II and the postwar period. He made his feature debut in 1993 with STELLA POLARIS, which showed at festivals around the world and was voted Norwegian film of the year by the Norwegians Critics' Association. His next feature, BURNT BY FROST, was presented at the 1998 Montreal World Film Festival. |
