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This was the first Norwegian film I have ever seen. It was fabulous! The cast was great and the main character, Petra, a free spirit with a past, was absolutely stirring and inspiring. She is, as a French friend of mine says, "like Pippi Longstocking." She weaves amazing stories, but the real Petra behind those stories is just as intriguing. She is a young woman who has run from her past to start anew with a preacher and his daughter.

I don't want to ruin this for you. Unfortunately, it is not available in this country and I wish more people here could see it, like I did.

Hopefully, it will be released here one day. The cinematography alone is stunning!

A truly beautiful movie with many qualities if you like to watch an intense drama based in the 1800's rural Norway. Based upon acclaimed writer and Norwegian national independence hero Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson's novel "The fisher girl" (orig. Fiskerjenten) from 1968, this is a great view of the 1800's Norwegian farming community.

Young and wild flower Petra is driven away from her western Norwegian small town after engaging to marry nothing less than three young men. She runs towards the capitol Kristiania (later renamed today's Oslo), and lies her way into a vicarage with a Danish widowed priest and her daughter, which she befriends. But after a while her lies catches up with her.

The production value is great, the filming of the scenery is breathtaking, and the multi talented star Herborg Kråkevik is perfectly cast as Petra, which seduces and melts every one on screen as well as in the audience. The rest of the cast also performs beautifully.

The director Thomas Robsahm has done a great job with this movie based upon a dated novel, which still is considered Bjørnsons main work, about the wildly charming character Petra... The film received massive critical acclaim and celebration from the press in a successful Norwegian film year.

The film resembles the vibrant "Telegrafisten", based upon the novel "Svermere" by Knut Hamsun. These films will without doubt have a equally satisfied audience.

A beautiful movie... pure greatness in every spine of the production, and the star Herborg Kråkevik seduces and melts the audience in a Billy Elliot-esque way... it's just magnificent.

The director Thomas Robsahm has with this movie fulfilled a dream of creating a movie out of this strong story about the wildly organic character Petra... that combines energic acting, state-of-the-art cinematography of striking norwegian nature and a powerful script. It will probably recieve a massive celebration from the press and as maybe the best movie in an already historically successful norwegian filmyear - it will, as it did with me, seduce the people too...

If this picture reaches out beyond our borders in Norway, as it should, you should definately allow yourself this extrordinary experience of pure filmmaking that may redefine the way you look upon... well, many things.

A piece of history... already.