Stella Polaris

Stella Polaris

89 mins | Drama | Jan. 8, 1993

Knut Erik Jensen's personal visual poem, an Elegy for a culture that no longer exists. Stella Polaris is a personal document in fiction form of a bygone era and culture in the northernmost part of Norway. At the same time described the current Finnmark in the scene from our own time. The story is narrated by a woman's eyes, both as children in the busy fishing village and as an adult in the present. She returns to the birthplace and remember how life was before the fishing village was closed. Love story between her and her childhood friend is central to the action. 'Stella Polaris' is in the form of associative told with an unconventional dramaturgy.

Stella Polaris

89 mins | Drama | Jan. 8, 1993

Stella Polaris
Knut Erik Jensen's personal visual poem, an Elegy for a culture that no longer exists. Stella Polaris is a personal document in fiction form of a bygone era and culture in the northernmost part of Norway. At the same time described the current Finnmark in the scene from our own time. The story is narrated by a woman's eyes, both as children in the busy fishing village and as an adult in the present. She returns to the birthplace and remember how life was before the fishing village was closed. Love story between her and her childhood friend is central to the action. 'Stella Polaris' is in the form of associative told with an unconventional dramaturgy.
IMDb rating 5.8
Producers Oslo-Film AS
Original title Stella Polaris
Directors Mai Tove Hansen, Tom Gulbrandsen, Knut Erik Jensen
Writers René Bjerke, Knut Erik Jensen

Cast

Anne Krigsvoll

as The Woman

Ketil Høegh

as The Man

Eirin Hargaut

as The Girl

Vegard Jensen

as The Boy

Thom Bastholm

as The Salesman

Øystein Mathiesen

as German Sergeant

Ole Lindseth

as Fisherman