The Wave
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | The Wave |
| Original title | Bølgen |
| Country of production | Norway |
| original language | Norwegian |
| Publishing year | 2015 |
| length | 104 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Roar Uthaug |
| script |
John Kåre Raake , Harald Rosenløw-Eeg |
| production |
Are Heidenstrom , Martin Sundland |
| music | Magnus Beite |
| camera | John Christian Rosenlund |
| cut | Christian Siebenherz |
| occupation | |
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The Wave (original title: Bølgen ; Norwegian for the wave ) is a Norwegian disaster film from 2015. The film drama was released on August 28, 2015 in Norwegian cinemas. The plot is based on a landslide that killed 40 people in the Norwegian Tafjorden in 1934 . In reality, too, geologists observe crevices in the rock for an impending landslide.
action
The married couple Kristian and Idun live with their children Julia and Sondre near the Geirangerfjord . She works in a hotel and he in a geological research station, which observes earth movements in the cliffs of the fjord. With their measurements, the geologists should give an early warning if a tsunami threatens from a landslide. Kristian has taken a new job in the oil industry and the family is about to move. On the last working day, incoming measurement results worried Kristian. However, his supervisor interprets the measured values as the result of defective sensors and does not want to sound an alarm out of consideration for the current tourist season. However, he orders increased observation.
Later, when the measured values increasingly indicate that something is actually wrong, Kristian's boss and another employee look at the sensors on site. They have to find out that the sensors are actually OK and that a disaster is imminent. Before they can pass this information on, however, a rock fall occurs, in which Kristian's boss is killed.
The rock fall into the fjord creates an enormous tidal wave, the feared tsunami. The residents of Geiranger have about 10 minutes to save themselves from the tsunami at least 80 meters above the fjord level. However, since the evacuation alarm was called during the night, it was difficult to convince many to leave the place.
The residents of the hotel are to be brought to safety by bus. When counting the passengers, Idun realizes that her son is missing. While Idun is looking for her son in the hotel, Kristian and his daughter Julia flee the danger zone in a car. Since the evacuation is chaotic, the fleeing residents quickly clog the escape routes with their cars and have to continue to flee on foot. However, Kristian realizes that a lot of people will not reach the safe height and tries to get into a parked car.
The force of the tsunami killed many people in town and on the streets. Kristian survived unharmed in the car and went to Geiranger to find his wife and son. They went to safety in the hotel's air raid shelter. However, water threatens to flood them. Kristian saves his family by removing rubble from the bunker door. Idun and Sondre can dive out of the bunker and meet up with their daughter Julia again later.
Emergence
The film was produced by “Fantefilm” with an estimated budget of 50 million Norwegian kroner (5.5 million euros). The film was shot in the area of the treated Geirangerfjord in Norway and in the "MediaPro Studios" in Bucharest in Romania. Universum Film and "SquareOne Entertainment" act as film distributors .
publication
After just five days, 190,000 viewers had seen the film in Norwegian cinemas.
criticism
The film service rated the film with three out of five possible stars and rated it “in the raw immediacy of the unleashed forces of nature” as more convincing than its Hollywood role models, “by driving both the physical and moral challenges of the protagonists to enormous heights . All in all, however, the plot seems somewhat predictable and schematic. "
continuation
In 2018, a sequel called Skjelvet (German title: The Quake ) came to the cinemas. It was directed by John Andreas Andersen .
Oscar nomination candidate
The film was submitted as a Norwegian entry for the 2016 Academy Awards in the “ Best Foreign Language Film ” category , but received no nomination.
Web links
- The Wave - The wave of deaths in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The Wave. filmstarts.de, accessed on November 24, 2015 .
- Film on filmweb.no (Norwegian)
- Film on filmfront.no (Norwegian)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for The Wave . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF).
- ↑ Bastian Berbner and Ole Pflüger: Rockslide threatens Geirangerfjord. Bayerischer Rundfunk , October 5, 2014, accessed on November 24, 2015 .
- ↑ Norway pins Oscar hopes on 'The Wave'. newsinenglish.no, September 2, 2015, accessed November 24, 2015 .
- ↑ The Wave. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed February 22, 2020 .