Mirush (Blodsbånd)

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Mirush
Original title	Blodsbånd
Alternate title	Mirush
Type	Features
Genre	Drama
Director	Marius Holst
Short summary	Mirush leaves Kosovo hoping to find his father in Norway, who abandoned the family when Mirush was very young. Now the father runs a restaurant in Oslo, but he is also in deep debt to the Albanian Mafia. Mirush starts to work in his fathers restaurant without letting him know that he is his son. Gradually they learn to know each other, but what Mirush discovers about his father is not something he is prepared to take. He is forced to make choices that have large consequences, for both of them.
Summary	How is an abandoned son shaped by his father´s absence? How can a person you have never met become an obsession that controls your life and defines your personality? What does it take to break destructive patterns and move on? Mirush is the story of a 15 year old boy who lives with his brother and mother under difficult conditions in Kosovo. Mirush sets out on a journey to Norway in search of his father, whom he has idolized, but can barely remember. Mirush gets a job in his father´s restaurant, but chooses to keep his identity hidden, for in that way learn to know his father and win his attention. Director's statement: Mirush” is the story of a boy on the run. It is a story of a boy who longs for a father he cannot remember, but of whom he has created clear images. It is also a story of turning your back on what you desire the most, in order to become yourself. The ¨father and son¨ theme has always interested me. Not only the relationship itself, but in particular how an abandoned son is shaped by the absence of his father , and how he is driven by the desire to be loved and the fear of being rejected by a person he does not even know. This is one of the essential themes in the story of Mirush. As is a father’s attempt to open up his heart to a boy he has tried so hard to forget . Marius Holst Director
Cast	Enrico Lo Verso (Bekim), Nazif Muarremi (Mirush), Glenn Andre Kaada (Frode), Ramadan Huseini (Ismet), Anna Bache-Wiig (Hannah), Bajrush Mjaku (Vullkan), Mirjana Karanovich (Hava/Mother), Michalis Koutsogiannakis (The Chef), Fisnik Zegiri (Armend)
Screenplay	Harald Rosenløw Eeg and Lars Gudmestad
D.O.P	John Andreas Andersen
Editor	Guido Notari
Composer	Franco Piersanti
Sound	Christian Schaanning, Gisle Tveito
Costume designer	Anne Pedersen
Scenography	Billy Johanson
Producer	Gudny Hummelvoll
Line producer	Carina Brattvik, Petter J. Borgli
Production company	Spillefilmselskapet 4 1/2 \| St. Olavsgt. 20C \| N-0165 Oslo tel: +47 22 94 24 94 \| fax: +47 22 94 24 99 \| e-mail: gudny@fourandahalf.no \| www.fourandahalf.no
Country of origin	Norway
Release date (national)	2007-03-01
Technical information
Format	35mm
Screen ratio	1:2,35
Colour	Colour
Sound System	Dolby SRD
Length in min's	100 min
No. of reels	6
International sales	Nordisk Film International Sales \| Mosedalsvej 14, DK-2500 Valby \| Tel: +45 3618 8200, Fax. +45 3618 9550 \| Mail: contact@nordiskfilm.com. www.sales.nordiskfilm.com
Distributor (Norway only)	Columbia Tristar Nordisk Film Distributors AS
Festival participation	2007 World Film Festival Montreal, Canada 2007 Copenhagen International Film Festival, Denmark Competition 2007 Pusan International Film Festival, South-Korea 2007 Mannheim-Heidelberg International Film Festival, Germany Competition 2008 Scandinavian Film Festival, Los Angeles, USA 2008 Gøteborg Film Festival, Sweden Nordic Light 2008 Fajr Festival, Iran Competition 2008 Febiofest, Czech Republic 2008 Festroia, Portugal Competition 2008 Giffoni Film Festival, Italy Competition 2008 International Film Festival "Arsenals", Latvia 2008 International Summerfest Film of Durres, Albania Competition 2008 Manaki Brothers, Skopje, Macedonia
Prizes received	2007 Copenhagen International Film Festival, Denmark: Golden Swan for Best Director 2007 Mannheim-Heidelberg International Film Festival, Germany: Main Award “The directness of this film evokes a definite feeling of inadvertent admiration in the jury. This impression is reinforced by the performance of the young actor who works in the film like an angel of death and yet as an expression of life.” 2008 International Summerfest Film of Durres, Albania: Jury's Special Prize
URL	http://www.nfi.no/film/mirush

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Director biography:
Marius Holst became internationally known with his feature film Cross my Heart and Hope to Die, which was in Competition in Berlin 1995 and won the Blaue Engel Award. Since then he has made numerous commercials. In 2001 he returned to feature production with Pål Sletaune within their joint company 4 1/2 with the film Dragonflies.