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Stella Polaris

Stella Polaris

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Status

Released

Release Date

Jan 8, 1993

Runtime

1h 29m

Genres

Drama, History

User Score

47%

Original Title

Stella Polaris

Production Companies

Oslo-Film AS

Director

Knut Erik Jensen

Description

Knut Erik Jensen's personal visual poem, an Elegy for a culture that no longer exists. Stella Polaris is a personal document in fiction form of a bygone era and culture in the northernmost part of Norway. At the same time described the current Finnmark in the scene from our own time. The story is narrated by a woman's eyes, both as children in the busy fishing village and as an adult in the present. She returns to the birthplace and remember how life was before the fishing village was closed. Love story between her and her childhood friend is central to the action. 'Stella Polaris' is in the form of associative told with an unconventional dramaturgy.