Gavagai

SYNOPSIS

Anna Kristiansen, imprisoned by the Nazis during the German occupation of Norway, finds herself in a precarious position when Norwegian Nazi Officer Aksel Hansen secures her release. Her freedom comes with a daunting price. Anna is dispatched to the hydroelectric town of Notodden to spy on Adam Honderich, a German High Church Lutheran Minister/Priest suspected of resistance activities. Conflicted by the moral ambiguity of her situation, but given only three days to succeed, she must survive sudden obstacles, the brutality of war, gestell, rapidly shifting cultures, all while seeking some final hope of redemption. The Minister/Priest goes fishing.

Director’s Comments

Epoché
ˈepəˌkē: suspension of judgment: a. in ancient skepticism: the act of refraining from any conclusion for or against anything as the decisive step for the attainment of ataraxy.

Epoché, bracketing in phenomenological research, is the process by which biases and assumptions are blocked out in order to explain a phenomenon in terms of its own inherent system of meaning.

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