

Inspired by true events
08/03/2019
Overview
Norway, 1942, during World War II. After being separated from her family, Esther, a young Jewish girl from Trondheim, arrives at an isolated farm where she must assume a new identity in order to survive the Nazi persecution.
Status: Released
Rating: 55%
Original language: EN
Budget: $0
Revenue: $0
Official website:
http://www.voltagepictures.com/details.aspx?ProjectId=1f6bd260-dfdc-e611-9488-0e563b5fb261
Reliance Entertainment Productions Scandi

Motion Picture Capital

Voltage Pictures

Garnet Girl

Norsk Filminstitutt

IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3160336
Wikipedia: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q114009878
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Review by: CinemaSerf
Written by: CinemaSerf on 2022-03-28T10:50:45.118Z
An enjoyable, if fairly routine story of a young Jewish girl who manages to escape the clutches of her Nazi captors during WWII. She cuts her hair and dresses/acts as a boy and seeks refuge working on a remote farm. What's new? The difference is, this one is set in the harsher climate of Norway and her predicament is incorporated into the broader theme of the Quisling-run kingdom's own difficulties with the Nazis. The family that adopts this new "boy" has plenty of problems of it's own and so there are plenty of sub-plots to complement the principal story. The pretty much entirely Nordic cast are all fairly competent, if not exactly outstanding; and it does offer a different take on the usual approach to this subject. The cinematography is beautifully bleak at times, and generally contributes much to this watchable war story.