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Norway is not much represented in major cinema these days, but this short film turns up occasionally on the short-subject circuit and is, for a one-reeler, quite amusing. The story is quite simple: nine elderly men get together in the backlands to go hiking, as they apparently have for seventy years -- they sing songs like 'The Internationale', long an anthem of socialism -- and find a young woman trapped in a marsh. Making a chain, they get her out and she waves goodbye and goes on her way, while they sink slowly into the earth.Doubtless there is some symbolic meaning to this piece, but what I find worthwhile about it is the nice photography of the wildlands -- if anything, too pretty, with its crags and sun dappling between trees and the occasional moose -- as well as the good humor with which they accept their doom. It's worth a look if the opportunity arises.
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