The Monitor

Oct 7, 2011

1h 33m

★ 5.8

How far would you go for the one you love?

Overview

Oslo, Norway. After living a traumatic experience, Anna and her son Anders move into a huge apartment building. Feeling constantly terrified and insecure, Anna buys a babycall to monitor Anders while he sleeps.

Genres

Drama

Thriller

Production Companies

4 1/2

BOB Film Sweden

Pandora Film

SF Norge

NFP

The Match Factory

The Monitor Trailers

Cast

Anna

Noomi Rapace

Anders

Vetle Qvenild Werring

Helge

Kristoffer Joner

Ole

Stig R. Amdam

Grete

Maria Bock

Nabogutten

Torkil Høeg

Male Doctor

Henrik Rafaelsen

School Inspector

Tom Hugo Nielsen

Secretary

Mona Engh

Helge's Mother

Eva Zeidler

Policewoman

Kaia Varjord

Female Doctor

Camilla Augusta Hallan

After Maren's brother is murdered, the young woman is completely shaken. Because the police only deal with the case in a routine manner and have no results to show for it, she sets about investigating the case herself. But in doing so, she realizes that she may be tangling with powerful people whose influence extends into her immediate surroundings. She believes that the nuclear waste mafia is behind her brother's death and that her own husband Mehdi is one of the criminals. Maren no longer knows who to trust. She feels like she is being watched every step of the way and even her best friend Iris doesn't believe a word she says. Little by little, Maren has to ask herself whether her family is in grave danger or whether she herself is the one in danger...

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