The film describes how resistance fighter Knut Magne Haugland operated an illegal telegraph station on the roof of the National Hospital in 1944 during World War II.
Direction
Skouen squeezes dread from empty hallways
Cinematography
Shadows that breathe, rooms that trap
Acting
Mathiesen's trembling restraint kills
Director
Arne Skouen
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Based on real events: Haugland was a genuine Norwegian resistance hero who later became a celebrated explorer.
Shot during Norway's post-war reckoning, when collaborators still lived next door—this film's paranoia was contemporary, not historical.
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