Archive of films Escape / Flukt

Norway
2012, 78 min

Section: Variety's Ten Euro Directors to Watch
Year: 2013

Set amongst the forests and fjords of medieval Norway, Escape is an adrenaline fueled genre tale with a twist: a rare period action picture with a femme heroine and a femme villain. When a gang of ruthless bandits attacks a poor family, the only one spared is 19-year-old Signe. Can she escape her fate?

Synopsis

Set amongst the forests and fjords of Norway during the Middle Ages, Escape is an adrenaline fueled genre tale with a twist. It is that rare period action picture with a femme heroine and a femme villain. The latter, bandit leader Dagmar, is played by director Roar Uthaug’s Cold Prey star Ingrid Bolsø Berdal with a feline ferocity. This intensely smouldering thesp has already been discovered by Hollywood. Ten years after the Black Death devastated the country, a poor family sets out on a journey to search for better living conditions. In a deserted mountain pass, a gang of ruthless bandits attacks them. The only one spared is 19-year-old Signe. She is taken prisoner and transported to the thieves’ camp. Here, she learns that a fate worse than death lies in wait and her only hope is to escape. Signe finds help from another prisoner, young Frigg, but can they elude the vengeful Dagmar?

About the director

Roar Uthaug (b. 1973, Lørenskog, Norway) graduated from the Norwegian Film School in Lillehammer with The Martin Administration (Regjeringen Martin, 2002), which was nominated for a student Oscar. He works for Fantefilm productions where he shot a number of TV commercials and music videos. In features he debuted with the highly successful Cold Prey (Fritt vilt, 2006 – Midnight Screenings at KVIFF 2007), a horror film with a plot akin to that of Věra Chytilová’s Wolf’s Lair. His filmography also includes the children’s film Silver Magic (Julevatt i Blåfjell, 2009), codirected by Katarina Launing. In his latest film, Escape, he draws on the narrative techniques of other genres: costume drama, fantasy, fairy tale, and action movie.

Contacts

Film Europe s.r.o.
V Jámě 1, 110 00, Praha 1
Czech Republic
E-mail: [email protected]
www: www.filmeurope.cz

TrustNordisk
Filmbyen 22, 2650, Hvidovre
Denmark
Tel: +45 368 687 88
Fax: +45 367 744 48
E-mail: [email protected]
www: www.trustnordisk.com

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About the film

Color, DCP

Section:	Variety's Ten Euro Directors to Watch

Director:	Roar Uthaug
Screenplay:	Thomas Moldestad
Dir. of Photography:	John Christian Rosenlund
Editor:	Christian Siebenherz
Producer:	Are Heidenstrøm, Martin Sundland
Production:	Fantefilm Fiksjon AS
Cast:	Ingrid Bolsø Berdal, Isabel Christine Andreasen, Milla Olin, Tobias Santelmann
Contact:	Film Europe s.r.o., TrustNordisk
Distributor:	Film Europe s.r.o.

Guests

Roar Uthaug

Film Director, Film Director

Silje Nikoline Glimsdal

Sales Agent