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Misery Harbour

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Original title

Misery Harbour

Year

1999

Running time

100 min.

Country

Sweden

Director

Nils Gaup

Screenwriter

Sigve Endresen, Kenny Sanders. Novel: Aksel Sandemose

Cast

Music

Joachim Holbek

Cinematography

Erling Thurmann-Andersen

Genre

Drama | 1930s

Synopsis

Oslo, 1932. Espen Arnakke, an up and coming Danish born writer who only writes non-fiction, is constantly butting heads with book critic Johan Hoeg, who has not been impressed by anything about Espen since his arrival onto the literary scene in Norway. Upon reflection, Espen realizes that there is some truth to Johan's words, regardless of his arrogant tone, based on Espen perhaps not being true to himself in what he is writing. As such, he decides to give his in-progress memoirs to the one person who he truly does want to impress, Johan's girlfriend Jenny, to read. Those memoirs largely detail him trying to escape from his life: escaping from his small town Danish upbringing where he was expected, as was every other male, to work at the town's ironworks, instead of his want to pursue some sort of schooling; and escaping from the sadistic captain and crew on the Newfoundland bound merchant ship he boarded in escaping from Denmark. He ended up in the fishing town of Misery Harbour, ...

Awards: 1999: Montréal World Film Festival: Official Selection

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Misery Harbour

1999

Nils Gaup