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Review by HALfie

Rating: 
3.5

With disarming simplicity and distanced approach, this is a detailed reconstruction of the most famous robbery that took place in Norway, it’s based on real events and on witnesses statements, on security camera recordings and police reports.

Although it is so adherent to the events, it isn’t exactly a documentary; the spectator is invited to follow a parallel way and different parallel worlds: introducing policemen and robbers as normal people in their normal daily morning routine and psychology… till then each of them will be called “on duty”  acting his character in a wide theather where villains definitely prevailed.

Simply astonishing the fierce fight between police and robbers and the complete lack of patrol’s promptness in responding, this surprising and disappointing reaction lets predict a huge massacre that fortunately never happened even then civils asked robbers information, totally unaware of the risk they were taking.

Directed by Erik Skjoldbjærg (INSOMNIA)

"Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!"
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, 1964