It's winter in a suburb. A housewife is brutally raped. A young woman becomes a victim of attempted rape. The Police tighten noose on Anders, a young road worker who was seen on the site in both cases. The two women think they recognize him in the lineup, and police investigators use all their strength to solve the case. Anders is a common and simple individual. He could be any youth. The meeting with the ongoing investigation and the solid judiciary, forces him out of a seemingly monotonous, habitual life and forces him to react and think.
Direction
Breien's clinical eye refuses easy catharsis or villainy.
Acting
Hungnes embodies crushing ordinariness that becomes devastating.
Director
Anja Breien
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
One of Norway's first feminist films directed by a woman, yet it deliberately centers male subjectivity to interrogate patriarchal structures from within.
Breien studied under Polish masters; the winter landscapes aren't pretty but oppressive, trapping Anders in geometric compositions that mirror lineup boxes and prison bars.
NO
