Andreas Lust

Escaping from trauma, a retired police officer moves to an off-the-map village. He soon discovers that its apparent peace hides something much darker.

Vera is about to make her first TV movie, a remake of Fassbinder's 'The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant', and takes her time looking for her ideal cast, and one week before shooting starts, the main protagonist has yet to be cast. While the producer and the crew become desperate, Gerwin is happy about the extra work. He earns his money as a casting partner and exchanges lines with the famous applicants for the role. When the male lead leaves the production, Gerwin senses his chance to get a fresh start as an actor.

German businessman Carsten Neuer travels to Norway to finish the impossible translation of some Norwegian poems by Tarjei Vesaas into Chinese, a project of his late wife. He hires Niko, a down-on-his-luck tour guide, to drive him to the poet’s home and places of inspiration to stimulate his own translation. On the road, the ghost of Carsten’s wife appears to him, while Niko struggles with the sudden consequences of his girlfriend’s pregnancy. On this journey, two very different men come to realize the transforming power of love, the limits of language, and the human need for friendship.

A law student joins an anti-fascist group and finds herself sucked into increasingly dangerous situations and drawn more and more to violence.

On April 9, 1940, the German war machine arrived in the city of Oslo and the Norwegian King faces a choice that will change his country forever.