Norwegian film classic selected for Berlin
Berlinale 2019: Norwegian director Edith Carlmar’s The Wayward Girl is the first Norwegian entry in the festival’s Retrospective programme.
Norwegian director Edith Carlmar’s The Wayward Girl (Ung flugt/1959) is the first Norwegian film selected for Berlinale Classics, a part of the Retrospective programme of the Berlin International Film Festival, which takes place between 7-17 February.
”We are very pleased to show the film at the Berlinale – it is a rather prestigious selection, since there are only six film classics in this year’s programme,” said Eirik Frisvold Hanssen, head of film at the Norwegian National Library.
Based on Norwegian author Nils Johan Rud’s novel, the film by Norway’s first woman film director follows Anders, who has just finished high school and now runs away with 17-year-old Gerd. He is genuinely fond of her wants her away from the city and from her gang – youth on forbidden roads.
The Wayward Girl was the first lead role in a film for then 20-year-old Liv Ullmann – she also performed in Carlmar’s first film, Fools in the Mountains (Fjols til fjells/1957). Anders is played by Atle Merton.
In Berlin the film will for the first time be shown in a digitally restored version from Norway’s National Library, which has organised the presentation with the Norwegian Film Institute and the festival: 10 February 10 at Cinemaxx 8 and 13 February at Zeughauskino.