Insomnia

  • June 16, 2017 / 21:00
  • June 17, 2017 / 14:00

Director: Erik Skjoldbjærg
Cast: Stellan Skarsgård, Maria Mathiesen, Sverre Anker Ousdal, Gisken Armand
Norway, 1997, 96’, color

Norwegian and Swedish with Turkish subtitles

Swedish police detective Jonas Engström finds himself under a bright sky and in the middle of a dark story. For a murder investigation, he arrives in a Norwegian town where the never setting sun leads hard, depressive nights and insomnia. He becomes exhausted, both psychologically and physically, makes a horrible mistake which is discovered by the killer he has been hunting. Insomnia, this popular thriller starring Stellan Skarsgård, was remade by the same title in Hollywood in 2002, by Christopher Nolan.

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