The Wave

Movie Details:

Cast & Characters:

• Kristoffer Joner as Kristian Eikjord, a 40-year-old experienced geologist
• Ane Dahl Torp as Idun Karlsen, Kristian’s wife
• Jonas Hoff Oftebro as Sondre, Kristian’s son
• Edith Haagenrud-Sande as Julia, Kristian’s daughter
• Thomas Bo Larsen as Phillip Poulsen, a Danish tourist
• Mette Horn as Maria Poulsen, Phillip’s wife
• Fridtjov Såheim as Arvid Øvrebø, Kristian’s former boss
• Herman Bernhoft as Georg
• Arthur Berning as Jacob Vikra
• Silje Breivik as Anna, one of Eikjord’s neighbours
• Laila Goody as Margot Valldal, Arvid’s assistant
• Eili Harboe as Vibeke, Idun’s hotel colleague

Storyline:

Based on the fact that mountain pass Åkneset, located in the Geiranger fjord in Norway, will one day collapse and create a violent tsunami of over 80 meters that will crush everything in its path before it hits land in Greenland. A geologist gets caught in the middle of it and a race against time begins.

About Movie:

The Wave (Norwegian: Bølgen) is a Norwegian disaster film directed by Roar Uthaug. It stars Kristoffer Joner, Ane Dahl Torp, Jonas Hoff Oftebro, Edith Haagenrud-Sande, Fridtjov Såheim, and Thomas Bo Larsen.

Norway is a rockslide prone area (created by the Caledonian orogeny) and The Wave is based on a rock-slide tsunami incident which destroyed the village of Tafjord on 7 April 1934, killing 40 people. Prior to that, a similar incident in 1905 triggered a tsunami killing 60 people, and 31 years later, another 74 lost their lives.

The Wave had its international premiere at the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival on 16 September 2015. It was Norway’s official submission for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film at the 88th Academy Awards but failed to be nominated.

A sequel titled The Quake (Norwegian: Skjelvet), directed by John Andreas Andersen, was released on 31 August 2018. The third installment, The Burning Sea, was released on 25 February 2022.

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