
Rome, Open City
1945


“The Wave was only the beginning”
814 votes
A geologist races against time to save his estranged wife and two children when a devastating earthquake strikes Oslo, Norway.
Director
John Andreas AndersenWriters
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Original Language
Norwegian
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$6.3M
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**An imitation of American cinema that comes from Norway.** Disaster films are one of those classics that cinema has used us to, mainly due to the dramatic and bloated Hollywood films. This film is not American, it comes from freezing Norway, but all the melodramatic and emphatic language of US cinema is present throughout the film. I confess that I was a little surprised to see a Norwegian film about a devastating earthquake. I'm not a geologist, but I don't associate the danger of the most intense earthquakes with Norway. The country, naturally, suffers some moderate earthquakes every…
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