In the most beautiful Telemark a young boy grown up on a rich farm wanting to be a fiddle player like the son at the poorer neighboring farm, to his father's dislike. One day the father is found dead.

A valley of sheep and secrets The first thing that strikes you is the light—not the postcard aurora you expect from fjord-country legend, but a cool, razor-thin Nordic glow that cinematographer Ivar Jentoft bends like glass. He glides across Telemark’s quilt of summer green, lingers on the fiddle-player’s calloused fi...


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" A valley of sheep and secrets The first thing that strikes you is the light—not the postcard aurora you expect from fjord-country legend, but a cool, razor-thin Nordic glow that cinematographer Ivar Jentoft bends like glass. He glides across Telemark’s quilt of summer green, lingers on the fiddle-player’s calloused fingertips, then tilts upward until the sky becomes a vaulted confession booth. Within this cathedral of grass and guilt, Kaksen på Øverland plants its saga of inheritance and music,..."
Amund Rydland
Gustav Adolf Olsen
Norway
1920 · IMDb —
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