A Handful of Time is a Norwegian film from 1989, directed by Martin Asphaug

Martin Asphaug

Martin Asphaug is a film director and screenwriter from Trondheim, Norway.With a background from writing and directing short films, industry documentaries and PSAs, Asphaug made his feature film debut with the award-winning 1989 film, A Handful of Time.Since 1992 Asphaug has primarily worked in...

. Starring Espen Skjønberg

Espen Skjønberg

Espen Skjønberg is an actor of stage, screen and television.He made his first movie appearance as a child in the 1937 Norwegian classic Fant. His stage debut came reciting poetry at the Norwegian theatre Chat Noir in 1945...

, Camilla Strøm-Henriksen, Nicolay Lange-Nielsen and Bjørn Sundquist

Bjørn Sundquist

Bjørn Richard Sundquist is a Norwegian actor, famous for TV, theatre, and movie roles.For many years he worked at Det Norske Teatret and Nationaltheateret in Oslo, and he is especially famous for the roles as Merlin and Hamlet....

, the film also features Susannah York

Susannah York

Susannah York was a British film, stage and television actress. She was awarded a BAFTA as Best Supporting Actress for They Shoot Horses, Don't They? and was nominated for an Oscar and Golden Globe for the same film. She won best actress for Images at the 1972 Cannes Film Festival...

 and Nigel Hawthorne

Nigel Hawthorne

Sir Nigel Barnard Hawthorne, CBE was an English actor, perhaps best remembered for his role as Sir Humphrey Appleby, the Permanent Secretary in the 1980s sitcom Yes Minister and the Cabinet Secretary in its sequel, Yes, Prime Minister. For this role he won four BAFTA Awards during the 1980s in the...

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Plot

The elderly Martin believes he hears the voice of Anna, the love of his youth who died during childbirth fifty years before. Guided by her voice, Martin escapes from his nursery home and begins a journey that echoes a chain of fatal events from his past, which increasingly merge with the present.

Awards

• Winner of the "Best Film" award at the Amanda awards
  Amanda (award)
  The Amanda Award is an award given annually at the Norwegian International Film Festival in Haugesund, Norway, to promote and improve Norwegian film. The award originated in 1985, and has since 2005 been exclusively a film award...
  
   in 1990.
• Camilla Strøm-Henriksen , winner of the "Best Actress" award at the Amanda awards in 1990.
• The Norwegian entry to the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film
  Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film
  The Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film is one of the Academy Awards of Merit, popularly known as the Oscars, handed out annually by the U.S.-based Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences...
  
  in 1990.
• 1990 Rouen Festival du cinéma Nordique, Prix A.C.O.R.
• 1990 Rouen Festival du cinéma Nordique, Prix de la presse

Sources

• En håndfull tid dossier Norwegian Film Institute

Footnotes