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| Norwegian Dream |
Robert (Hubert Milkowski, pictured right) is a Polish immigrant working in a fish-processing factory in Norway. Ivar (Karl Bekele Steinland, left) is the adopted son of the owner of the plant, but wants to take a very different path in life. The two are drawn to one another, but complications arise from both men’s families, plus the fact that the workers are organizing a strike against the factory owner.
I really wanted to love this film, but I kept finding myself drawn out of the story, partly because it is often bleak and gray, like the surrounding landscape, but mostly because I never felt like I was seeing beyond the surface of the characters’ lives. I’ll give it a “recommended” rating, but I couldn’t help feeling disappointed.
Note: the dialogue is in Norwegian and Polish with English subtitles and in English without subtitles, but it is fully closed-captioned in English.
• IMDb page • Official website [in Norwegian] • other official website [en/no] • trailer • Facebook: @NorwegianDream.Film •
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