Bureaucracy: the true contraceptive nobody warned you about.
Pål and Catherine would like to have a baby, but their efforts are hampered by bureaucracy.
Acting
Hovig and Ousdal's deadpan desperation is chef's kiss.
Direction
Karlsen stretches 10 minutes into eternal comic dread.
Director
Ørjan Karlsen
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Hovmod premiered during Norway's peak dry-comedy export era, when filmmakers like Bent Hamer proved Scandinavians owned existential deadpan.
Andrea Bræin Hovig would later star in 'Hope' (2019), completing an accidental trilogy of women enduring medical indignities with spectacular restraint.
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