After a baby monitor picks up another channel, Anna begins reliving the nightmare she'd recently escaped.
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Title: The Monitor (2011)
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| Noomi Rapace | ... | Anna | |
| Kristoffer Joner | ... | Helge | |
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Vetle Qvenild Werring | ... | Anders |
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Stig R. Amdam | ... | Ole (as Stig Amdam) |
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Maria Bock | ... | Grete |
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Torkil Høeg | ... | Nabogutten (as Torkil Johannes Swensen Høeg) |
| Henrik Rafaelsen | ... | Mannlig doktor | |
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Tom Hugo Nielsen | ... | Skoleinspektør |
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Mona Engh | ... | Sekretær |
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Eva Zeidler | ... | Helges mor |
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Kaia Varjord | ... | Politikvinne |
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Camilla Augusta Hallan | ... | Kvinnelig doktor (as Camilla Augusta S. Hallan) |
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Haakon Gjerløw | ... | Butikkansatt 1 |
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Frank Jørstad | ... | Butikkansatt 2 |
| Bjørn Moan | ... | Nabomannen | |
After escaping an abusive husband Anna and her 8 year old son move to a secret location in a giant apartment building. Terrified that her ex-husband will find them she buys a baby monitor to keep in her son's room at all times. But strange noises echo in the baby monitor from elsewhere in the building. As she witnesses the sounds of what she believes is another child being murdered she fears it is her own. Reliving the nightmare she recently escaped Anna will need to figure out what's real and what isn't before she loses her sanity and her child. Written by Elizabeth Obermeier, Marketing Manager
Anna moves into hiding in a shabby flat in an apartment building outside Oslo, with her young son Anders. She is a profoundly neurotic, young woman: terrified that the boy's violent father will find them again and attack her son.
Having been instructed by social services that Anders should sleep in his own room, she buys a baby-monitor from a local shop, in order that she can hear him sleep. However she starts picking up the sounds of violence from a nearby flat.
Unable to tell the difference between her psychosis induced world and reality, she seeks help from Helge, the shy sales assistant who sold her the monitor.
Just because she's paranoid, doesn't mean they're not out to get her.. but it does make it difficult to piece together the story, told mostly from her desperately disturbed perspective.
This film won the Grand Prize at the Gerardmer Film Festival in France: it is really worth a look.