Kristoffer Joner
as alfred

Kristoffer Joner has starred in Norwegian and International films as The Wave, The Quake, Mission: Impossible – Fallout and The Revenant. He has won the Norwegian Film Award Amanda for Best Male Actor three times and starred in Gunnar Vikene’s first feature film Falling Sky in 2002.

Ine Marie Wilmann
as Cecilia

Ine Marie Wilmann has starred in Norwegian films and TV-series as Sonja: The White Swan (Sundance 2018), Homesick (Sundance 2015), Exit (2021-) and Furia (2021-). She has won the Amanda Award for Best Female Lead and the Norwegian Emmy for her work in the TV-series The Third Eye, directed by Gunnar Vikene.

Pål Sverre Hagen
as Sigbjørn

Pål Sverre Hagen has starred in Norwegian films such as Kon-Tiki, Troubled Water, Amundsen and Out Stealing Horses. He has won the Amanda Award for Best Actor two times – most recently for his performance in The Middle Man (Toronto, 2021).

Full Cast

Alfred Kristoffer Joner

Cecilia  Ine Marie Wilmann

Sigbjørn Pål Sverre Hagen

Magdeli Henrikke Lund-Olsen

Magdeli after the war Téa Grønner Joner

Magdeli – adult Siv Torin Knudsen Petersen

William Armand Hannestad

William after the war Daniel Berg

Olav Noah Nygård

Olav after the war Oskar Hallaråker Hellesøy

Aksel Andersen Leon Tobias Slettbakk

Hanna Wiig Alexandra Gjerpen

Braathen Arthur Hakalathi

Monsen Karl Vidar Lende

Birger Mohr Mats Holm

Johannes Henrik Fammestad

Pastor Sigvaldsen Thor Brekkeflat

Captain Jens Dahl Nils Ove Sørvik

Captain Iver Fosnes Odd Gunnar Sørvik

Fanebust Emir Hvidsten Hindic

Sivert Joakim Visnes

Helmsman Aron Vilde Daniel Frikstad

Anders Lone Arild Halvorsen

Dr. Douglas Anthony Edridge

Werner Florian Schmidtke

Hardegen Max Hubacher

Ragnhild Kirsti-Helene Engeberg

Claussen Kai Ole Taule

Hans Damian Hardung

Bao son Marylin Dela Cruz

Gunnar Vikene
the director

Gunnar Vikene directed his first feature film, Falling Sky (Himmelfall) in 2002. His following feature films - Trigger (2007), Vegas (2009), and Here is Harold (2014) - have all received both critical acclaim and number of international prizes. In 2017 he directed the TV-series Borderline, which earned him a best director-prize at Gullruten (Norwegian Emmys). He also directed several episodes of the acclaimed show Occupied (2020) and was in 2022 again nominated for a best director-prize for his work in the TV-series Pørni (2021). Gunnar lives in Bergen, on the west coast of Norway. Before starting to work with films he was a submarine officer for several years.

Sturla Brandth Grøvlen
director of Photography

Sturla Brandth Grøvlen is a Norwegian cinematographer based in Denmark. He won the Silver Bear for Outstanding Artistic Contribution for his work on Victoria (2015) and has since worked on films such as Thomas Vinterberg’s Another Round, Eskil Vogt’s The Innocents, Benh Zeitlin’s Wendy and Josephine Decker’s Shirley.

Volker Bertelmann
Composer

Volker Bertelmann is a German composer. He won an Oscar for his work on Lion (2016), together with Dustin O’Halloran. He has composed scores for such films as Ammonite (2020), The Old Guard (2020) and All Quiet On The Western Front (2022).

Main Crew

Written and directed by Gunnar Vikene

Produced by Maria Ekerhovd

Production Companies Mer Film in co-production with Rohfilm Factory and Falkun Films

Co-Production Companies Mediefondet Zefyr, Scandinavian Filmdistribution, Norddeutscher Rundfunk, Letterbox Filmproduktion, Bergen Kino 

Supported by  The Norwegian Film Institute, Mediefondet Zefyr, Nordisk Film og TV-fond, Deutscher Filmförderfonds, Moin Filmförderung Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein, Nordmedia, Mitteldeutsche Medienförderung, Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg, Creative europe media and Malta Film Commision

In collaboration with The Post Republic and DCM

Director of Photography Sturla Brandth Grøvlen, DFF

Editors Peter Brandt, Anders Albjerg Kristiansen

Sound Designers Tormod Ringnes, Luise Hofmann

Music by Volker Bertelmann

Production Design Tamo Kunz

Costume Design Stefanie Bieker, VSK

Make Up Jens Bartram

VFX Supervisor Jean-Michel Boublil

Casting Alicia Marchong Eidesund

World Sales Beta Cinema

Technical Details

Norway, Germany, Malta 2022

Length 151 min

Screen Ratio 1:1.85

Format Digital 3.2K

Sound 7.1 Dolby Digital

Languages Norwegian, English, German