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Utøya

From here to hell and back

EQUIPMENT: New book about the traumas of the neighbors. It is assumed that the volunteer women and men at Utøya transported more than 250 terrified young people to safety. At the same time, the police and the emergency services failed.
Bjørn Kasper ILaug -

JULY 22: In my opinion, the police could have panicked

EQUIPMENT: I transported 24 battered, shock-injured young people to safety on the mainland from Utøya. Several times I led the boat out to this hell on earth. Where were the police?
Bjørn Kasper ILaug -

The trauma story

JULY 22ND: Utøya as a hotbed for budding party affiliation: This generation still cannot be gagged.
Ellen Lande -

Should filmmakers fail to comment on their contemporaries?

Norwegian feature films and drama series often fetch material from reality.
Aleksander Huser -
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Proximity to American conventionalism

Of the two new films about the Utøya massacre, it is Reconstructing Utøya which, through four survivors' honest accounts, in all its simplicity allows us to see both the extent of the tragedy and a way forward for those involved.
Ellen Lande -

Soothing staging

Reconstructing Utøya is close, brave and warm – if you can only watch one movie about Utøya, it is strongly recommended to wait for this one. 
Ellen Lande -

They are careless

Poppe's feature film paves the way for care and a new focus on the survivors of the Utøya tragedy.
Ellen Lande -

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