21/01/2014 - Hans Petter Moland is Scandinavia’s only candidate for the Golden Bear at the Berlinale - Lars von Trier’s own cut of Nymphomaniac, Part 1 screens out-of-competition

Norwegian director Hans Petter Moland’s new action comedy, In Order of Disappearance [+see also:
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Danish director Lars von Trier’s own cut of his Nymphomaniac, Part 1 [+see also:
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In Moland’s film scripted by Denmark’s Kim Fupz Aakeson (who also signed A Somewhat Gentle Man), Moland returns to the snow banks of the Norwegian fjells, where 45-year old Nils drives a snow blower in a remote winter paradise. One day he receives a telephone call – his son who just started studies in Oslo, has died from an overdose. Suddenly, he finds himself in the middle of a war between drug syndicates.

Swedish actor Stellan Skarsgård and Swiss actor Bruno Ganz are joined by Norway’s Pål Sverre Hagen, Jakob Oftebro and Anders Baasmo in the Finn Gjerdrum and Stein B Kvae production for Paradox, which will be domestically released on February 21.

World-premiered to critical acclaim at the Sundance Film Festival, Norwegian award-winning scriptwriter Eskil Vogt’s first feature, Blind [+see also:
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interview: Eskil Vogt
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The Berlinale Special Gala section will include Danish director Pernille Fischer Christensen’s third Berlinale selection, Someone You Love [+see also:
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