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Film · 2015

The Wave

Original titleBølgen

Directed by Roar Uthaug · starring Silje Breivik, Kristoffer Joner and Ane Dahl Torp

  • 1 h 44 min
  • 15
  • Action · Drama · Thriller
  • Norway
  • Released in the UK 11 August 2016
  • 5.5 Users2 votes
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Synopsis

The movie is set in the Åkneset mountain, in the Norwegian fjord Geiranger, where a huge-rocks landslide took place 58 years ago. That caused an important damage, because the fall of the huge rocks in a narrow sea entry caused a gigantic 85-metres-high wave. This tsunami, which devastates everything behind, caused the death of 40 inhabitants of the nearest village. The main character of this Norwegian film is a biologist who is one of those caught in the middle of the accident who only has ten minutes to scape from this natural disaster in order to save himself and the life of his family. Directed by Roar Uthaug and played by Kristoffer Joner, Ane Dahl Torp, Jonas Hoff Oftebro, Fridtjov Saheim, this movie was released in some international film festivals, like the Toronto International Film Festival.

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The essentials

Runtime
104 min1 hour and 44 minutes
Budget
€5.4m
Rating
15Suitable only for 15 years and over
How long is The Wave?
1 hour and 44 minutes (104 minutes).
When was The Wave released in the UK?
It was released in the UK on 11 August 2016.
Who directed The Wave?
Roar Uthaug.
Who is in The Wave?
It stars Silje Breivik, Kristoffer Joner, Ane Dahl Torp and Thomas Bo Larsen.
Where can I watch The Wave?
In the UK you can watch it with a channel on Apple TV and a channel on Prime Video.
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Cast

Full cast (9)
Director
Roar Uthaug
Writers
John Kåre Raake, Roar Uthaug, Harald Rosenløw-Eeg

Photos and posters

All 7 photos

Reviews

All 2 reviews
5.5 2 votes

What the critics say

  • VarietyPeter Debruge '' 'The Wave' sticks mostly to the big-studio formula (albeit on a much smaller budget), introducing a handful of bland soon-to-be-victims before bombarding them with spectacular digital effects ''. Read
  • The Hollywood ReporterDeborah Young ''Though they have little to add to familiar genre themes, Uthaug and the screenwriters make the most of the unique location, which lends itself to jaw-dropping vistas from every camera angle''. Read

Soundtrack

All 6 songs
  1. Splitter PineDum Dum Boys Spotify
  2. Rising WaterArranged, Johannes Ringen Spotify
  3. BonusHemen Heemugen Fatahi
  4. Rhythm De LightMichael Serpa Spotify

Trivia

  • Sold over 141.000 tickets in Norway on the first weekend of release, the most successful movie of the year 2015 there and the 3rd best result ever for a Norwegian film.

  • The film's basic premise is not fictional. The mountain is in constant motion and will fall, sooner or later. Director Roar Uthaug: "This will actually happen there one day. There is this crack in the mountainside out in the fjord, and it keeps expanding each year and at some point it will cause a huge rockslide into the fjord and they will have 10 minutes before the wave reaches Geiranger. So we wanted to stay true to the facts - to what geologists think will be the facts one day."

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