A slaughterhouse worker appears to be romantically involved with his boss's wife. They plan to leave the country together, but at the airport she waits for him in vain. Slowly but surely the three of them get entangled in a fateful web of betrayal, jealousy and revenge.
Direction
Van Diem wrings maximum dread from minimal runtime.
Cinematography
Bleak Dutch landscapes that mirror emotional desolation.
Acting
Nijholt's simmering repression is genuinely unsettling.
Director
Mike van Diem
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Van Diem won the Student Academy Award for this, his graduation film — rare for a non-American director.
The title references escapist fantasy: 'Alaska' represents the unreachable elsewhere these characters chase but cannot reach.
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