INSOMNIA
Director: Erik Skjoldbjærg Run Time: 96 min. Release Year: 1997 Language: Norwegian
Starring: Gisken Armand, Kristian Figenschow, Maria Mathiesen, Stellan Skarsgård, Sverre Anker Ousdal
In this elegantly unsettling murder mystery, Stellan Skarsgård plays an enigmatic Swedish detective with a checkered past who arrives in a small town in northern Norway to investigate the death of a teenage girl. As he digs deeper into the facts surrounding the heinous killing, his own demons and the tyrannical midnight sun begin to take a toll. The success of Erik Skjoldbjærg’s chilling procedural anticipated the international hunger for Scandinavian noirs and serial- killer fictions, and the film features one of Skarsgård’s greatest performances