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For harde
livet (1989)
  
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Directed
by:
Sigve Endresen |
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COUNTRY
Norway |
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GENRE
Documentary |
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INTERNATIONAL TITLE
For
Dear Life (USA)
För livets skull (Sweden) |
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RUNNING
TIME
101 minutes |
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Produced
by:
Aage Aaberge |
Written by:
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Cast includes:
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CHARACTER |
ACTOR/ACTRESS |
RATING |
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Themselves |
Lone
Lars
Nadja |
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Review
The first in a series of documentaries
made by Norwegian filmmaker Sigve Endresen and his production company Motlys
portraying young adults living on the fringes of society. For harde livet
follows a group of young drug addicts from Oslo who are forcibly
admitted to the relatively new rehabilitation centre Tyrilikollektivet,
where the idea is that the participants through shared
responsibility, physical activity, and in-depth group therapy will
learn to take control of their lives and detach from their
addiction. It takes a
little while for Endresen to break down the barrier between his film
crew and his subjects, but once he does, For harde livet
offers a
valuable, raw glimpse into life as a hard drug addict when
this was a relatively new issue in a still rather provincial
Norway in the 1980s. The film's only real weakness is the ending, which
comes off as too abrupt and somewhat poorly devised. Endresen
followed up with
Store gutter gråter ikke in
1995.
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