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Credited cast: | |||
Jørgen Langhelle | ... | Tomas Stockman | |
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Trine Wiggen | ... | Katrine |
Pia Tjelta | ... | Petra | |
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Sven Nordin | ... | Peter Stockman |
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Per Jansen | ... | Morten |
Rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
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Anders T. Andersen | ... | Producenten |
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Espen Reboli Bjerke | ... | Adm dir |
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Monika Bjerke | ... | Kontordame |
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Morten Espeland | ... | Hovstad |
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Camilla Frey | ... | Sminkedame |
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Cecilie Frøshaug | ... | Styreleder (as Cecilie Frøshaug Askheim) |
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Knut Haugmark | ... | Tor Gabrielsen |
Henrik Horge | ... | Mann | |
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Lasse Lindtner | ... | Aslaksen |
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Arnhild Litleré | ... | Gudrun Borg |
In a modern version of Ibsen's stage play we meet TV-celebrity Tomas Stockman going back to his native village to produce the world's purest bottle water. The plant will bring new life and hope to the village, but unexpected trouble occurs. Written by OJT
This adaptation of the brilliant play has a great humour about itself. Thomas Stockmann has been the sleuth uncovering the dirt and skeletons of the big corporations, but as his TV show gets so popular and so much money is involved that he must compromise his independency; he decides to tap water from Bredal instead. When he finds out later that the water is poisonous he struggles hard against his family, the tappery and the town where it is based.
What takes a bit away from it is that it could tighter dramaturgically. Not much, but a little bit. Else the actors are fine, the setting in Sogn gorgeous and the directing good. The music by Jan Garbarek (which I usually don't feel too much for) fitted the movie very well. One other thing: why does so many people talk the siddis dialect, when it has nothing to do with the south-western are of Norway at all?? Annoying.