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| Original title |
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| Type |
Features |
| Director |
Leidulv Risan |
| Summary |
In the strong room of a bank in the German university town of Heidelberg lies a sealed covenant dating from 1937. Four ageing doctors are on their way to Heidelberg: August Lind from Sweden, Theodore (Ted) Roth and Ernest Bogan from the USA and their terminally ill Norwegian friend Carl Berner whom they have smuggled out of an Oslo hospital. The old friends are returning to Heidelberg to fulfil the covenant they made when they were students.
Weary after their long journey they reach the venerable historic city. They open the covenant in a private, moving ceremony. It contains Berner's final wish: that he should meet again the great love of his student days. But where is she? The three friends start on a strenuous hunt for their fellow student's old flame. Yet much has changed since 1937. The task appears impossible.
As they strive to honour the covenant, the search oscillates between comical, morbid and absurd situations, fateful decisions and terrifying confrontations. |
| Release date (national) |
1995-08-04 |
| Technical information |
| Format |
35mm |
| Colour |
Colour |
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Director biography:
Leidulv Risan has many years experience of film, television and theatre production. He has written and directed several short films, and directed theatre plays. His first feature film was The Execution (1980), then came The Warrior's Heart (1987). He wrote The Dive (1988) with Carlos Wiggen, and in 1994 he dramatised The Teacher, an Arne Garborg classic, for the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation NRK.
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