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In this epic story of love and treason, Max Von Sydow gives a career-crowning performance as Knut Hamsun, Norways controversial Nobel Laureate, who stunned the world by becoming the only major European artist to side with the Nazis in WWII. Max Von Sydow brilliantly captures the loneliness and confusion of the last seventeen years of Hamsuns life, as he faces the consequences of his outspoken support of Nazi politics in Norway. Knut Hamsun, a staunchly anti-British nationalist, was his countrys
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In this epic story of love and treason, Max Von Sydow gives a career-crowning performance as Knut Hamsun, Norways controversial Nobel Laureate, who stunned the world by becoming the only major European artist to side with the Nazis in WWII. Max Von Sydow brilliantly captures the loneliness and confusion of the last seventeen years of Hamsuns life, as he faces the consequences of his outspoken support of Nazi politics in Norway. Knut Hamsun, a staunchly anti-British nationalist, was his countrys most beloved writer, best known for his modernist books Hunger (1890) and Growth of the Soul (1917), which gave Norways literature worldwide stature. But with the shadow of Nazism quickly darkening Europe, Knut Hamsun and his wife Marie embrace Hitler- who sees Hamsuns support as the surest way to win over the Norwegian people. Hamsun never learns German so his speeches are interpreted-or mis-interpreted by others, including his frustrated, former actress/author wife Marie-played brilliantly by Ghita N0rby (Babettes Feast, Sophie, The Kingdom). Before long Hamsun and Marie are engulfed not only in Hitlers war, but also in their own turbulent relationship, and the angry wrath of a betrayed nation. After the war, instead of being jailed for treason, Hamsun is ordered to undergo months of intense psychiatric evaluations and a court trial that almost ends both his relationship with Marie and his life. Director Jan Troells biography of Norwegian, Nobel Prize-winning author, Knut Hamsun (Max von Sydow), is as much about Norways experiences with Hitler as it is about Hamsuns personal life. Opening with a scene that establishes Hamsuns torrent relationship with his wife, Marie (Ghita N0rby), the film examines the couples gradual conversion to Nazism, as Germany occupies Norway during World War II. Persuaded by a Nazi embassador sent to Oslo, Vidkun Quisling (Sverre Anker), both Marie and Knut become spokespeople for the Nazi Party, justifying their politics by the German promise of
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