The Birdcatcher (2019)
Inspired by true events
Norway, 1942, during World War II. After being separated from her family, Esther, a young Jewish girl from Trondheim, arrives at an isolated farm where she must assume a new identity in order to survive the Nazi persecution.
- Date of release
- 2019-03-08
- TMDB
- 5.5 / 10 (66)
- Runtime
- 1h 37m
- Genres
- Drama, Thriller, War
- Director
- Ross Clarke
Casting
- Sarah-Sofie Boussnina — Esther
- Arthur Hakalahti — Aksel
- Jakob Cedergren — Johann
- Laura Birn — Anna
- Johannes Bah Kuhnke — Fred
- August Diehl — Herman
- Anders Baasmo Christiansen — Tor
- Jonas Hoff Oftebro — Petter
- Andrea Bræin Hovig — Rebecca
- Tibo Vandenborre — Reichmann
- Dag Malmberg — Hans
- Jon Øigarden — Gestapo Officer
Interesting facts
The Birdcatcher is a 2019 film directed by British film-maker Ross Clarke and written by Trond Morten Kristensen. Set in Nazi-occupied Norway, supposedly based on a composite of real cases, it concerns Esther, a Jewish girl, who lives disguised as a boy on a Norwegian farm.
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