From Bergen to Malta, Liverpool, New York and Halifax: Norwegian merchant seamen Alfred (Kristoffer Joner) and Sigbjorn (Pal Sverre Hagen) sometimes seem to be competing for screen time with dateli…
, Norway’s Oscar submission. Sprawling, packed with anecdote and surging from one dramatic peak to the next,sets out to tell the stories of the ordinary but unsung heroes who helped defeat Germany in 1945. It has the best of intentions.
Perhaps if it had focused on fewer of those horror stories and cut that plot in half, it might not have also felt quite so much like a whistle-stop tour. As it is, director Gunnar Vikene takes us speeding through death, injuries and emotional trauma, the difficulties of post-war peace and onward to the farthest reaches of post-war PTSD, three decades later. As a conscientious guide, he is determined we won’t miss a thing.
Thus the tone is set for a series of sea-going catastrophes and human dramas in which Alfred repeatedly shows his moral mettle. Men go overboard and are left behind because a coal-fired ship can’t stop safely; a tearful boy of 14 is dragged from the sea; their ship takes a hit from a German submarine; Alfred and Sigbjorn are seen drifting on a raft in the middle of the ocean, guarding the young boy’s corpse and sure they are going to die.
Frequent cuts and more interstitials take us back repeatedly to the home front. Plucky Cecilia has resorted to delivering firewood in occupied Bergen, dodging eviction and huddling with other families in cellars as the Allied bombs rain overhead. She never sees her husband’s wages. Nor does she see the letters he writes whenever there is a quiet moment, filing them away against a future that may never come.
When it does come, Alfred is not the same man. The family is not reunited until years after the war, Alfred having melted into the opium dens of the Far East after hearing that Bergen had been bombed to blazes. Rescued by Sigbjorn, he finds himself not only unpaid and unrecognized by the Norwegian authorities, but branded a deserter. This is essentially reportage; the treatment of civilian ancillary workers after the war remains a scandal.
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