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| Tradra |
| Original title |
Tradra - I går ble jeg tater |
| Type |
Documentaries |
| Director |
Karoline Frogner |
| Short summary |
One Saturday night the doorbell rings. A group of Travellers ask for Bjørn. An elderly woman steps forward: “I am your biological mother. You were stolen by the Norwegian state when you were one day old. It has taken us 45 years to find you.” Bjørn gets two years with his biological father before he dies. |
| Summary |
One Saturday night the doorbell rings. A group of Travellers ask for Bjørn. An elderly woman steps forward: “I am your biological mother. You were stolen by the Norwegian state when you were one day old. It has taken us 45 years to find you.” Bjørn gets two years with his biological father before he dies.
What does it mean to be a Traveller? Bjørn watches old Norwegian Traveller films. The Traveller Boy could be his own story. If the movie’s protagonist follows the Travellers, he will end up in trouble. He renounces his background and remains a Norwegian. What right does the Norwegian state have to steal his identity? In this film Bjørn meets the Travellers’ leading cultural representatives in Norway today. He brings his case to Parliament. |
| Screenplay |
Karoline Frogner |
| D.O.P |
Hallgrim Ødegård, Arne Dahr, Karoline Frogner, Bård Brinchman Løvvig |
| Editor |
Sophie Hesselberg, Einar Egeland, Berthram Hval |
| Sound |
Bengt Øberg, Jan Lindvik, Chimney Pot |
| Producer |
Karoline Frogner |
| Production company |
Integritet Film AS | interfilm (at) c2i.net |
| Country of origin |
Norway |
| Release date (national) |
2004-03 |
| Technical information |
| Format |
35mm |
| Screen ratio |
1:1,66 |
| Colour |
Colour - B/W |
| Sound System |
Dolby SR |
| Length in min's |
85 |
| No. of reels |
5 |
| Distributor (Norway only) |
Europafilm AS |
| Festival participation |
Norwegian Documentary Film Festival Volda 2004
(Screening of digital version)
Norwegian International Film Festival Haugesund 2004
(Release of 35mm version)
Nordische Filmtage Lübeck
Human Rights in Film, Warzawa
2005 Norrköping Film FEstival
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© 2003 Norwegian Film Institute
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Director biography:
 Born Feb. 3,1961. Educated as a photographer. Frogner has worked with photography and has written several books. She has been working with film since the early 1980ies. She established her own production company in the fall of 2003, Integritet Film AS, under which a number of films have been produced or are in the planning stage.
FILMOGRAPHY
2009 Intwari – Feature Doc, 85 min
2009 Kirsten Flagstad’s Square – Doc, 57min
2009 The Children of Genocide – TV doc, 52 min
2004 Tradra – Feature doc, 85min
Nominated for the National Film Award "Amanda” for Best Documentary
1998 Thived Time – Short fiction, 34 min
1995 Times of Darkness – Feature doc, 90min
Critics’ Favourite of the Year 1995
National Film Award “Amanda” for Best Documentary Film
Janne Kokkin, female lead, was nominated for an “Amanda” for Best Actress
Best Documentary at Cinema delle Donne, Torino
Best Documentary at Nordic Glory, Finland
The Osterød Award for humanitarian work
Represented the Norwegian broadcaster NRK at INPUT
Selected TV film of the week on all channels by Nå magazine
The Norwegian Forest in Israel – The Norwegian Jewish Society has planted four trees in honour of the film
1995 Women and children first – Doc, 30min
Made in cooperation with director Liv Sandvik
1994 Asil – Doc, 30min
1990 Whistling not allowed – Short doc, 6min
Best short at the Nordische Filmtage Lübeck
1989 God bless the child –Short doc, 8min
1989 A portrait of Anja Breien – Doc, 45min
BIBLIOGRAPHY
1997 Portrait of a neighbour – Cappelen
1995 Times of darkness – Cappelen
1992 Suffering without limits – Cappelen
1991 Children of the Intifada – PAX
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