Movie
Ørkenen Sur
2015 · 60 min
A sober, quietly sad historical documentary that traces hard lives through testimony and archive material, asking patience but leaving a lingering sense of loss.
- Directed by
- Dan Korneli
- Genres
- Documentary
- Starring
- Nils Nordberg, Tor Obrestad
- Overview
- Many Norwegians went to America to find happiness, but not all of them found the promised land where many created themselves a new future. This is the story of some of those who became part of poverty America and who, in the 1920s and 30s, had to settle on a rubbish dump in Brooklyn, NY.
- How it feels
- Measured and needs your attention.
- About
- Immigration, class, survival, isolation
- Content
- No violence, gore, sexual content or swearing.
- Note
- Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown
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- Directed by
- Dan Korneli
- Genres
- Documentary
- Starring
- Nils Nordberg, Tor Obrestad
