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Carmel International Competition

A hugely accomplished meditation on life, guilt and responsibility.

Hollywood Reporter
  • Archive - Festival 35
  • Director: Hans Petter Moland
  • Norway 2019
  • 123 minutes
  • Norwegian
  • Subtitles in Hebrew, English

Norway Academy Award Nominee

1999. 67-year-old Trond is a widower settling into a lonely life in a snow-entrenched Norwegian village. One winter night he discovers that his neighbor Lars is someone he knew as a boy. His memories take Trond back to 1948, when he turned fifteen and spent the summer with the father he adored.

Hans Petter Moland adapts Per Petterson’s famous novel and creates an evocative drama about remembrance and regret, with a wonderful performance by Stellan Skarsgård and sumptuous cinematography by Rasmus Vidbæk.

Filmography: Cold Pursuit (2019), In Order of Disappearance (2014), A Somewhat Gentle Man (2010).

Hans Petter Moland is a guest of the festival.
His film "In Order of Disappearance" is part of the Masters category.


  • Director Hans Petter Moland
  • Production Håkon Øverås, Turid Øversveen
  • Script Hans Petter Moland
  • Cinematography Rasmus Vidbæk
  • Editing Jens Christian Fodstad, Nicolaj Monberg
  • Music Kaspar Kaae
  • Festivals Berlin (Silver Bear for Outstanding Artistic Contribution)
  • Actors Stellan Skarsgård, Bjørn Floberg, Tobias Santelmann, Danica Curcic
  • Source Norwegian Film Institute, Oslo