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The Birdcatcher
From Reliance Entertainment Productions Scandi · Motion Picture Capital · Voltage Pictures
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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.
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Directed by Ross Clarke
Sarah-Sofie Boussnina
Arthur Hakalahti
Jakob Cedergren
Laura Birn
Johannes Bah Kuhnke
August Diehl
Anders Baasmo Christiansen
Jonas Hoff Oftebro
Andrea Bræin Hovig
Tibo Vandenborre
Dag Malmberg
Jon ØigardenImages · 3
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CinemaSerfMar 28, 2022
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 o… Read more
f 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.