Sons of Norway

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Movie
German title Sons of Norway
Original title Sonner av Norge
Country of production Norway
original language Norwegian
Publishing year 2011
length 88 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Jens Lien
script Nikolaj Frobenius
production Christian Fredrik Martin
music Go to Anvik
camera Morten Søborg
cut Vidar Flataukan
occupation

Sons of Norway (Original title: Sønner av Norge ) is a Norwegian feature film by Jens Lien from 2011 . He tells the story of the young Nikolaj, who changes his life through punk rock and especially through the record Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols and becomes a punk himself. Sex Pistols front man Johnny Rotten has a guest appearance.

The film is based on the autobiographical novel Teori og praksis by Nikolaj Frobenius , who also wrote the screenplay. The film title refers to the patriotic song Sønner av Norge , which also served as the national anthem in the past.

action

In Oslo in the 1970s, Nikolaj first heard the Sex Pistols - a band that changed his life. But it is not easy to be against the establishment and the authorities if the father is an old hippie who prefers to take the flower bus with the family and has no respect for the school principal either. His mother is different, loving and affectionate with a lot of understanding for her adolescent son. It hits Nikolaj all the harder when she dies after a serious traffic accident. From now on his father has to look after him and his little brother alone. This overwhelms the father, he becomes sick and depressed. To relieve him, his sister temporarily takes little Peter into the family.

Gradually, Nikolaj's father found his way into a new life and began to work as an architect again. Nikolaj spends every free minute with his punk friends , listens to music by Johnny Rotten and also has to deal with their anarchist approach to life, which is in stark contrast to what his parents conveyed to him. Despite a rebellious appearance in public, his father stands by him. And he's interested in her music. He even sells his hippie bus and switches to a motorcycle. He wants to go on vacation with Nikolaj, which he would never forget his life: to a nudist camp. All of this is more than embarrassing for the boy and he hardly lets his frustration run free while playing the guitar back home. Instead of going to school, he practices in the music group with his friends. He also comes into contact with drugs, which leads to delusions. He is afraid of losing his mind. Torn in his emotional world, he sits down on his father's motorcycle and deliberately causes a serious accident. In a coma lying his idol appears to him Johnny Rotten of something told him about the meaning of life, then wakes Nikolaj.

criticism

The film-dienst noted that the "sensitive father-son story accompanies the mourning process with a great sense of detail and illuminates the relationship between the former hippie and his son, who is also looking for ways of expressing rebellion". kino.de wrote that Lien bowed "to the 70s, punk and a unique hippie father figure". The film stands and falls with “the massive performance of Sven Nordin” and advances “to a cinematic plea against everything that is adapted, uniform and the same”. Cinema magazine said the film was "a comedy, but in between it is also very serious, especially when it comes to the ambivalent father-son conflict". In particular, the "fun scenes in the nudist camp" and the "painful mental exposures and desperate acts" stand in contrast.

Awards

The film was nominated at the Amanda Awards in Norway in the categories “Best Actor” (Sven Nordin) and “Best Production Design” (Are Sjaastad). The film won the FIPRESCI Prize at the Gothenburg Film Festival and the Jury Prize for Sven Nordin at the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Sons of Norway. film service , accessed December 23, 2014 .
  2. ↑ a b lasso: Sons of Norway. Busch Entertainment Media (kino.de), accessed on December 23, 2014 .
  3. ^ Sons of Norway. Cinema , accessed December 23, 2014 .
  4. ↑ Awards. Sons of Norway (2011). Internet Movie Database , accessed December 23, 2014 .