Insomnia Page #2

Synopsis: In a Norwegian city with a 24-hour daylight cycle, a Swedish murder investigator is brought in to find an elusive killer. But when the officer accidentally kills his own partner and covers it up, a double sided game of cat-and-mouse ensues.
Director(s): Erik Skjoldbjærg
Production: Norsk Film
  2 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.3
Rotten Tomatoes:
97%
NOT RATED
Year:
1997
96 min
761 Views


He's already checked it

for finger...

Where is he?

On his way to the shed.

Stop him.

Find out who she went

to the movies with.

Astrid, maybe the staff

remember something.

The Moment. Jon Holt...

''Pia falls in love with Thomas,

''but thinks he's hiding

something from her.

''A voice inside Pia's head

tells her

''how to get rid of the problem.''

Anyone here

read crime novels?

Yes.

Nobody goes near the shed.

lf the perpetrator thinks the

bag may reveal him,

he'll come and get it.

lt was the same school bag

the murdered Tanja Lorentzen

had with her when she left

the party on Sunday morning.

lt's not been found.

lf you see or find such a bag,

then please contact the police.

lt may contain clues which will

lead us to Tanja's killer.

Maybe he doesn't watch TV.

Oh, yes. There's nothing else

to do around here.

Am l upsetting you?

You probably hear

jokes like that all the time.

No.

He's here.

Wait till he picks up the bag,

then we follow him. Quietly.

Freeze! Police!

He went into the shed.

Let's get him.

You can't get anywhere now.

Please come out.

Zakariassen! Down to the sea,

and follow the waterline.

Erik, you take the hillside,

and when you reach the bay,

you go left.

Here... here... here...

-Which way did he go?

-There...

You said to the right...

You said to the right.

Then l found Zakariassen

laying between the stones and...

He pointed. l ran

in the direction he pointed.

Then l saw a figure

disappear behind a stone...

Then l slipped. l heard a shot,

and saw him running towards me.

First he shoots Vik, and then

he runs straight towards you.

What?

After he shot Vik...

Did the perpetrator run

straight towards you?

l suppose he didn't see me.

lt was foggy.

And then?

When he saw me,

he turned abruptly and ran back.

l ran after him

down towards the sea.

Then he turned again.

Shot at me - missed -

and ran further.

That's when l spotted Erik

and stopped to... help him.

Describe the man you saw.

lt's that f***ing map's fault!

Every stone is marked on it,

but not the bunker

below the shed.

Yes, most unfortunate.

lf l'd known about that tunnel,

l'd had a man down there.

We should always be armed,

like you do in Sweden.

-When will the autopsy take place?

-Tomorrow.

The bullet's in his spine.

The bullet is no good

without the weapon.

Don't worry.

One of your detectives

will handle the Vik case.

We need a special permit

to be armed,

and there was no reason

in this case -

as we couldn't imagine...

We heard you were the first

to arrive at the crime scene.

What did you see?

lt was very foggy.

l was the first person

to reach the beach,

and found Vik lying there.

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Nikolaj Frobenius

Nikolaj Frobenius (born September 29, 1965) is a Norwegian novelist and screen writer. Frobenius was born in Oslo, but grew up at Rykkinn. He studied film writing and research at LCP, London. He has written several books and screenplays, including the screenplay for the classic Nordic film thriller Insomnia, which was adapted into a major Hollywood production in 2002. His international breakthrough as a novelist came with the novel "Latours katalog" (1996). His books have been translated into eighteen languages, including English, French, Spanish, Italian, German, Russian and Danish. His novels have received critical acclaim both in Norway and internationally, and he has won several literary prizes for his writing. Nikolaj Frobenius is a former editor of the periodical Vinduet and worked as a commissioning editor for Norsk filmfond from 2005-2008. Frobenius has written several successful screenplays, including Dragonfly (2001). In 2011 he adapted his own novel, the semi-autobiograhical "Teori og praksis" into the film "Sønner av Norge" (Sons of Norway). He lives and writes in Oslo. more…

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