Comrade Pedersen

Gymnaslærer Pedersen

Norway

2006

123 Min

Color

2.35:1

Norwegian

Currently 3.0/5 Stars.
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CAST Kristoffer Joner, Ane Dahl Torp, Anne Ryg, Jan Gunnar Røise, Stig Henrik Hoff, Fridtjov Såheim

It’s the year 1968. The young high school teacher Knut Pedersen arrives in Larvik dreaming of a bourgeois existence, but also with an inner discord and unrest which pretty soon push him towards the seductive Marxist-Leninist party AKP. Pedersen is a gentle, intellectual man, with doubts about the revolutionary ideas. Only when he meets the young, newly arrived medical doctor Nina Skåtøy, this absurd and Utopian idea seems to become conceivable. Soon they are lovers. Their intense relationship lasts until a fatal annual meeting in AKP, which, for security reasons, is held in Sweden. During the meeting, she performs self criticism, and says farewell to “comrade Eivind,” as he is called for security reasons. Pedersen, however, stays by her side, as friend, admirer and knight through AKP’s fall, through strikes and self proletarization, and ever more defeats for the revolution. —NFI

Director

Hans Petter Moland

Hans Petter Moland (born 1955, Oslo, Norway) is a Norwegian film director. Hans Petter was the first born son of Odd Moland and Sigrid Eid Moland, and has a younger brother named Morten Moland. He is a film graduate from Emerson College in the United States. When living in Boston Hans Petter met a college student Elizabeth (Lisa) Pacini whom he married, and later moved back to Norway with. When living in Norway he had three children; Nicolai (1985), Anna Marina (1987) and Max Emil (1989). In 1992 Hans Petter and Elizabeth got divorced. He later married Norwegian film artist Maria Sødahl and had three more children; Sara (1995), Lukas (1998) and Jack (2001). Hans Petter has been awarded prizes for his commercials at all major festivals, including Cannes, before he made his feature debut in 1993 with The Last Lieutenant. He followed up with Zero Kelvin (1995), Aberdeen (2000) and The Beautiful Country (2004), which was selected for Competition in Berlin. He also directed the short film… read more