What do you do when your family's ghosts speak Norwegian?
A Jewish family leaves Germany after surviving the Holocaust and heads to Norway. Mendel, their youngest son, is too young to make sense of the Holocaust but tries to comprehend his family's actions during the war and their nightmares now. His imagination frequently runs away from him.
Acting
Thomas Jüngling Sørensen carries impossible weight
Cinematography
Dreamlike Norway vs. shadowed flashbacks
Writing
Holocaust through a child's magical realist lens
Director
Alexander Røsler
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Rare Norwegian-German co-production addressing Holocaust refugee experience in Scandinavia, largely unknown outside Nordic film circles.
Director Røsler based elements on real Norwegian Jewish refugee stories; the 'Vottemannen' (mitten man) figure merges Norwegian folklore with traumatic memory.
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