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THE QUAKE

John Andreas Andersen

Norway1h 46Belgian premiere Disaster

Synopsis

1904. An earthquake makes Norway shake on its foundations until almost nothing remains. More than a hundred years later, this is about to happen again. At least, if you want to believe Kristian, a scientist who suffers from PTSD after his last prediction became reality. His warnings to the government fall on deaf ears. And it gets worse when he’s contacted by a like-minded scientist who dies soon after in mysterious circumstances. If that’s not enough, Kristian is also coping with divorce and has a difficult relationship with his children after they narrowly survived the tsunami he so accurately had predicted. When the Norwegian earth starts to tremble, the entire family is located in a dangerously designed office block. So Kristian was right, but will they make it out alive…? More than a century ago, Norway was the victim of a catastrophic earthquake that was the inspiration of this sequel to nail biter THE WAVE (BIFFF 2016), where a tsunami flattened an entire valley. This disaster movie takes us to Oslo. The peculiar architecture of a giant office building is the setting for the perils of Kristian and his family. Don’t get too comfortable in your seats, because the ground might disappear from under your feet.

Trailer

Director
John Andreas Andersen
Country
Norway
Genre
Disaster
Premiere
Belgian premiere
Running time
1h 46
Cast
Kristoffer Joner, Ane Dahl Torp, Edith Haagenrud-Sande, Kathrine Thorborg Johansen , Jonas Hoff Oftebro
Edition
Edition 2019