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Year: 2012
Original title: Gnade
Runtime: 2 hours, 12 minutes
Country: Germany | Norway
Language: German | Norwegian | English
Subtitles: English | German (mkv embed)
Genre: Drama
Director: Matthias Glasner
Cast
Birgit Minichmayr ... Maria
Jurgen Vogel ... Niels
Henry Stange ... Markus
Ane Dahl Torp ... Linda
Maria Bock ... Wenche
Stig Henrik Hoff ... Bjorn
Iren Reppen ... Sofie
Richard Andre Knutsen ... Mikkel
Kristoffer Mortensen ... Ole
Katharina Strauch ... Stine (as Katharina Strauch)
size 1.59.GB
Plot / Synopsis
Hammerfest is a Norwegian town on the edge of the Arctic Ocean at the country’s most north westerly tip. Between 22 November and 21 January the sun doesn’t even make it over the horizon. This small town caught in an icy reverie somewhere between black night and permanent twilight is now home to a German couple and their son. Niels is an engineer working at a natural gas liquefying plant based on a tiny island opposite Hammerfest. Maria, a nurse at a hospice for the fatally ill, has decided to join her husband here to support this important career move. The couple seems to have adapted well to this shadowy and sometimes surreal nocturnal world. But one day on her way home from work Maria is involved in an accident; she appears to have run over someone or something. Unable to face up to the situation, she panics and rushes back home. As events take their course this throws up some fundamental questions: is it possible to live your life without mercy or the ability to forgive? An intimate melodrama, told in stunningly cinematic images. ~ berlinale
Polar night at the edge of the Arctic Sea – for two months the sun doesn’t rise above the horizon. In a magical twilight, amidst snow and ice, a family of German expatriates hopes for a new beginning: Niels, Maria and son Markus. But soon after they arrive, Niels and Maria sense that their new surroundings will not be able to save their withering relationship. Niels throws himself into his work as an engineer – and into an affair. Maria does overtime at the hospice, and Markus struggles with puberty and his new fellow students. But then one night a terrible accident occurs that changes everything. The coldness in their hearts subsides and, miraculously, the tragedy becomes a turning point for all three family members: the secret shared by Maria and Niels forces them to confront their lives – and leads them on the path towards redemption and mercy. ~ german-films.de
Technical Specs
Source: Internet
Group/Ripper: XaW
Video Format: mkv/AVC
Video Bitrate: 1500 Kbps
Frame Rate: 24.000 fps
Aspect Ratio: 16:9
Resolution: 640 x 360
Bits/(Pixel*Frame): 0.271
Audio Format: AC3
Audio Bitrate: 224 Kbps
Sampling rate: 48000 Hz
