Utøya: July 22 (2018)

Drama, Thriller

Director: Erik Poppe
Writers: Siv Rajendram Eliassen, Anna Bache-Wiig, Erik Poppe
Starring: Andrea Berntzen, Aleksander Holmen, Solveig Koløen Birkeland, Brede Fristad

"The day that changed us forever."

On July 22, 2011, more than 500 youths at a political summer camp on an island outside Oslo were attacked by an armed, right-wing extremist. Earlier that day he bombed a Government building in Oslo before making his way to Utøya island. In this first fictional movie about the attack, made from the ponmt of view of the victims, we get to know 18-year-old Kaja and her friends. The movie starts when the youngsters, shocked by the bombing in Oslo, are reassuring their relatives that they are far away from the incident. Suddenly, the safe atmosphere is shattered when shots are heard. We then follow Kaja as she tries to survive – minute by minute.

We also recommend the movie on the same subject, by Paul Greengrass.

Plot summary from IMDb: A teenage girl struggles to survive and to find her younger sister during the July 2011 terrorist mass murder at a political summer camp on the Norwegian island of Utøya.

Awards: 4 wins & 12 nominations.
Runtime: 93 min
Not R