Massacre Of Teens In Norway Retold As A Feature Film
Captured in one 72-minute take, U — July 22 re-enacts the 2011 murders at a summer camp through the eyes of its victims — in order to refocus the story away from the extremist killer.
As the teenage survivors of last week's high school shooting in Parkland, Fla. speak out to demand tighter gun control regulation, the young victims of a 2011 massacre in Norway still struggle to be heard and understood. U – July 22, a new movie which premiered this week at the 68th Berlin International Film Festival, tries to give a voice to those victims.
On July 22, 2011, after detonating a bomb that killed eight people in Oslo, a right-wing extremist disguised as a policeman turned up at a summer camp on the Norwegian island — most of whom were teenagers. The gunman was a white supremacist who targeted the campers because they were junior members of the Norwegian Social Democrats and because of their liberal, multicultural values.
