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''Insomnia'' is a 1997 Norwegian film about a police detective investigating a murder in a town located above the Arctic Circle . The detective arrives in the summer, during the Midnight Sun , and suffers Insomnia . It was the film debut of director Erik Skjoldbjærg . The screenplay fis by Nikolaj Frobenius . SYNOPSIS ''Insomnia'' tells the story of a cross-border collaboration between Swedish and Norwegian police to hunt down the killer of a fifteen-year-old girl in the Norwegian Arctic. The investigation goes horribly wrong when police officer Jonas Engström ( Stellan Skarsgård ) mistakenly shoots one of his colleagues and subsequently attempts to cover up his bungle. The title of the film refers to Engström's inability to sleep, the result of both his guilt and the relentless glare of the midnight sun. THEMES In the film, Engström is unable to sleep, partly due to relentless Guilt over recent and ongoing misdeeds, and partly due to the never-ending sunlight, which serves as an outward representation of that guilt. The film has been described as turning '' Film Noir '' conventions on their heads by using, in place of shadows and darkness, relentless sunshine and ubiquitous bright white fog to convey guilt and confusion. REMAKE See Also: Insomnia (2002 film) In 2002 , an American remake was released, directed by Christopher Nolan and starring Al Pacino . EXTERNAL LINKS |
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