It was directed by Eldar Einarson, who also wrote the screenplay.
[1][2][3] In 1941, the young kitchen maid Liv meets the German non-commissioned officer Franz while she is working in the non-commissioned officer's mess.
This is a relationship that their environment, and especially Liv's father, cannot accept, and they decide to flee to Sweden.
[4] The film has a different perspective on the German occupation of Norway than Norwegian war films had up until then, and is one of the early examples of an alternative war narrative.
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