Glasskår, whose English title is "Scars", is a Norwegian film which won or shared the award for best picture at this year's Giffoni, Montevideo, Norwegian and Berlin Kinder film fests. Its boy stars are Eirik Stigar, Martin Jonny Raaen Eidissen and Eirik Evjen, who won the best actor award at Giffoni as well. Of all the new Scandanavian films, this is the one I most want to see. The synopsis I am using comes from the Giffoni website; a summary with a different spin can be seen at the website of the Norwegian Film Institute at (You need to Login or Register to view media files and links)


Viktor has two friends, Arnor and Roger, and one idol: his brother Ole Kristian, nicknamed OK, who is the best hockey player in the area. The boy would do anything to be like his brother and be as successful as he is with girls. With the help of his friends Viktor decides to draw a little bit of attention to himself by forming a rock group. In the meantime OK breaks his arm and when he comes home from hospital he doesn’t seem to be quite the same. Viktor guesses that something has changed and soon makes a series of incredible and painful discoveries. His brother is seriously ill, and what is more, he is the son of a friend of the family who had an affair with his mother in the past. As if this was not enough, OK is secretly seeing Car, the most beautiful girl in town, who is also the girlfriend of Remi, a delinquent who terrorises the local children and who could even kill OK. Viktor finds himself facing some difficult situations: he falls in love with Sissel, an enterprising girl who intimidates him; he has to make sure that Remi does not discover Car’s infidelity, and above all he must come to grips with the illness that is taking his brother from him.

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Saw "Glassskår" here when it was still running in Cinemas. Absolutely well-worth watching, particularly if you grew up in the 80s, because it has a lot of 80s references in it.

Thanks for the link to the official site, 'soles!

Thanks to you I now have 5 clips downloaded from this movie to tide me over until I learn Norwegian or the producers agree to add English subtitles to their product.

Maybe there's hope for an English version yet. Scars will make it's American debut at the Chicago International Children's Film Festival next month!

<em> I did see that, but was not sure, but I will give it a try!  I *really do* need the films!    Maybe I can claim "medical emergency" or something...  </em>

Sure. Just tell them, "I'm dieing to see the movie." What compassinate norwegian could turn down a death-bed plea?

<i>P.S. to MikeZ and Sir J: Did you guys (or anyone else for that matter) ever succeed in getting the dvd shipped to the US????</i>

I did.  :biggrin:

I haven't even had the chance to watch it yet, though. I had to get the Region-killer link from Link, first, for my computer.

You can get it from these folks, and it cost 195,00 kr, whatever that is. I'm anxious to see what that converts to in U.S. dollars, though I really should have checked before I ordered it, I guess. (Gosh, I hope it wasn't too much!)

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Love,
Sir J