![]() ![]() He takes a protective fatherly interest in Aksel (Leon Tobias Slettbakk), a boy rescued at sea, not much older than his own eldest son, William (Armand Hannestad). In action marked by letters home that Alfred is unable to send due to the Occupation, the years pass with port stops in Liverpool, Malta and eventually, New York in 1944. The crew’s only choice is to stay on and serve in the war effort for the duration or jump ship and be branded as traitors, blacklisted by the shipping companies. But when the ship’s captain (Nils Ove Sørvik) reprimands him, he adds the sobering news that all merchant vessels have been commandeered by the Allied Forces, and the Germans have occupied Norway. In a nail-biting sequence several months later, Alfred proves himself a man of principle and compassion by defying orders and rescuing crew that have gone overboard in the mid-Atlantic. But Cecilia extracts a promise from Wally to make sure her husband gets home. The recent sinking of a Norwegian ship off the Netherlands has their distressed daughter Maggie (Henrikke Lund-Olsen) convinced that Alfred will be killed. With paying jobs in the port drying up, they accept an offer to sail on a cargo vessel to New York, even though Alfred is reluctant to leave his pragmatic wife Cecilia (Ine Marie Wilmann) and their three children for 18 months. ![]() Lifelong friends Alfred (Kristoffer Joner) and Sigbjørn (Pål Sverre Hagen), fondly known to each other as Freddy and Wally, are dockworkers in Bergen. The story spans from 1939-1972 and was inspired by real people. That gives the film - the most expensive Norwegian production ever made - a novelistic sweep, particularly in the eventful postwar developments where complications of loyalty and familial responsibility take hold in a somber romantic triangle, along with the challenges and consequences of survival. One of the chief strengths of Vikene’s meticulously researched script is that it gives equal attention to the civilians at sea in the firing line and the woman and children waiting at home for one of them in the coastal city of Bergen under German Occupation. ![]() Cast: Kristoffer Joner, Ine Marie Wilmann, Pål Sverre Hagen, Henrikke Lund-Olsen, Téa Grønner Joner, Siv Torin Knudsen Petersen, Armand Hannestad, Daniel Berg, Noah Nygård, Oskar Hallaråker Hellesøy, Leon Tobias Slettbakk, Alexandra Gjerpen ![]()
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