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SKYGGENES DAL

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Title: Skyggenes dal
English title: Valley of Shadows
Year of Release: 2017
Director: Jonas Matzow Gulbrandsen
Country of Production: Norway
Principal Boy Actors: Adam Ekeli (Aslek), Lennard Salamon (as Aslek's older friend Lasse)
Genre: Mystery, Drama
Length: 1 hr 31 min
Language: Norwegian
Availability: Official blu-ray release
English subtitles: Available on blu-ray
Synopsis
Between the sea and the mountains in a small Norwegian village, six-year-old Aslak lives with his mother Astrid. When local farmers' sheep begin to be killed during the night, Aslak's best friend Lasse is convinced that it is the work of a werewolf who lives in the forest. When Aslek's dog Rapp goes missing in the forest, Aslek decides, despite his fears, to enter the forest in search of him.
A film that deals with people's irrational fears, one of the many things I find interesting about it is the close friendship between Aslek and Lasse, the latter about 13, a friendship of which Aslek's mother disapproves, because of the difference in the two boy's ages.
Notes
Some of the themes of this film were developed from a 2009 short film by the same director entitled Darek.

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