War Sailor, which hit Netflix this week, is a re-edited miniseries version of the most expensive Norwegian movie ever made.
“Alfred Garnes is a working-class sailor, who has recently become the father of a third child. He and his childhood friend Sigbjørn Kvalen are working on a merchant ship in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean when World War II breaks out. They are unarmed civilians on the front lines of a war they never asked to join. The two men struggle for survival in a spiral of violence and death, where at any moment German submarines may attack their valuable vessels.
Back home, Alfred’s wife Cecilia struggles through the war alone in Bergen. Not knowing when or if she’ll ever see her husband again, she focuses on raising their three children. Later, in an attempt to bomb the German submarine bunker in Bergen, British aircraft instead hit a primary school as well as homes, killing hundreds of civilians. The news reaches Alfred and Wally in Canada, leaving them unsure if they’ll have anything left to return home to.
Alexandra Gjerpen, Pål Sverre Hagen, and Kristoffer Joner in “War Sailor.” Image source: Roxana Reiss/Netflixwas originally written to exist as both a movie as well as a mini-series. “And I couldn’t really let go of the initial idea of telling the story in both formats,” he said, according to Netflix.
“When we were editing the feature film, we realized that a lot of the footage didn’t fit in the well over two-hour-long feature film. Fortunately, Netflix accepted the challenge, and throughout the autumn we worked on making a three-hour mini-series — with several new scenes to be able to show the WHOLE story not just to the Norwegian public, but also the rest of the world.”
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