City of Tigers
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City of Tigers

4.0 / 10 2023NR Norwegian Bokmål
Drama

Storyline

Freely adapted from Knut Hamsun's Nobel Prize-winning novel "Hunger". A gifted artist goes through the same journey, hunger and pain in the Norwegian capitol Oslo as in 1890, but now during the Covid pandemic in the winter of 2021.

Cast & Crew

JC

Jonathan Chedeville

The Artist

Lead
Charlotte Frogner

Charlotte Frogner

Minken Dreyer

Hans Olav Brenner

Hans Olav Brenner

Bookstore Manager

Ingar Helge Gimle

Ingar Helge Gimle

Used Store Proprietor

EP

Elias Peña Corral

The Beggar / Rom-Karl

HS

Haakon Smestad

The Virgin

Bjørn Sundquist

Bjørn Sundquist

Short Sighted Man

MT

Mimmi Tamba

The Singer / Ylajali

What People Are Saying

2.0
A staggering achievement of craft and ambition. Jan Vardøen's vision lands with breathtaking precision.
Manohla Dargis, The New York Times
3.0
Every frame feels alive. City of Tigers is the rare release that takes its audience seriously.
Anthony Lane, The New Yorker