Misery Harbour
– A young writer named Espen Arnakke tells the story of his escape from the small Danish town of Jante..
A young writer named Espen Arnakke tells the story of his escape from the small Danish town of Jante. Espen boards a ship headed to Newfoundland, but the harsh conditions on board makes him jump ship, and he ends up in the little town of Misery Harbour. There he meets the girl of his dreams. But his passion shifts to jealousy when one of the men from the ship mysteriously appears in town, and sets out to make Espen's life a misery
03 Sep 1999
Danish, Norwegian, English, Latin
Nils Gaup
Sigve Endresen, Aksel Sandemose (novel), Kenny Sanders
Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Stuart Graham, Anneke von der Lippe, Bjørn Floberg
Oslo, 1932. Espen Arnakke, an up and coming Danish born writer who only writes non-fiction, is constantly butting heads with book critic Johan Hoeg, who has not been impressed by anything ...
2 nominations.
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