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Oslo, August 31st

Release Date: May 25, 2012
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Runtime: 1 hr. 35 min.
Genres: Drama
Director:Joachim Trier
Cast:Anders Danielsen Lie, Malin Crepin. Full cast + crew

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A man who can't sort out the wreckage of his life wonders what sort of future he deserves in this drama adapted from a novel by Pierre Drieu La Rochelle. Anders (Anders Danielsen Lie) is a struggling writer from a successful family who stumbled into bad habits and is soon to be released from a treatment center for drug addiction. Describing himself as "a spoiled brat who (messed) up," Anders has pinned his hopes for the future on a job at a magazine in Oslo, and after being discharged he heads into the...more

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Oslo, August 31St

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