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Solace

Karoline GRINDAKER, Hilde K. KJØS
  • Norway
  • 2011
  • 68min
  • HD
  • Color/B&W
International Competition

Synopsis

Solace is about the small moments, the coincidental meetings and the strong impact a choice can have on a life. This film is about women who went out with a desire to help, for later to be associated with some of the most gruesome acts of the twentieth century. In occupied Norway 450 women reported for duty as nurses at German field hospitals. They cared for Germans but also for wounded soldiers from other nations. These women were called ‘the Front Nurses’ and were sentenced for treason when they came home, despite many protests, including from Red Cross. The women in the film have lived with the weight of Holocaust on their shoulders, yet they never carried a weapon, but went out for the Red Cross to nurse wounded soldiers. While working as tour guide to Auschwitz, director Karoline Grindaker met a journalist mentioning the Front sisters’ fate and then started a long and complicated process of finding them. Started filming in 2007, in the four year long process of following these women, this film takes us into their deepest and darkest places, to memories many of them had buried when they were young.

Director

  • Karoline GRINDAKER
    Karoline Grindaker holds a Bachelors Degree in Psychology and Film Studies from the Surrey Institute of Art & Design University College in UK. She has been involved in numerous film and TV projects in London, and made her debut as a director of documentary film with Harvesting the Wasteland in 2008, codirecting with Hilde K. Kjøs.

    Solace (2011)
    Harvesting the Wasteland (2008)
  • Hilde K. KJØS
    Hilde Kristin Kjøs studied Art History at the University of Oslo, and holds a BA in Photography and Imaging from the Manchester Metropolitan University. She made her debut as a documentary film director and Cinematographer with Harvesting the Wasteland in 2008, co-directing with Karoline Grindaker.

    Solace (2011)
    Harvesting the Wasteland (2008)

Credits

  • Director  Karoline GRINDAKER, Hilde K. KJØS
  • Producer  Karoline GRINDAKER, Hilde K. KJØS
  • Writer  Karoline GRINDAKER, Hilde K. KJØS
  • Cinematographer  Hilde K. KJØS EDITOR Robert V. STENGARD
  • Sound  Hugo EKORNES

Production Company

  • Production Company  Mica Film

Distributor/Sales

  • Distributor/Sales  Norwegian Film Institute
  • Address  Dronningens GT 16, 0152 Oslo, Norway
  • Tel  47 22 47 45 00
  • E-mail  amb@nfi.no