Betrayal is a 1981 Norwegian

Norway

Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...

 drama film

Drama film

A drama film is a film genre that depends mostly on in-depth development of realistic characters dealing with emotional themes. Dramatic themes such as alcoholism, drug addiction, infidelity, moral dilemmas, racial prejudice, religious intolerance, poverty, class divisions, violence against women...

 directed by Vibeke Løkkeberg

Vibeke Løkkeberg

Vibeke Løkkeberg is a Norwegian film actress and director. She appeared in 12 films between 1967 and 1991. Her film Hud was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1987 Cannes Film Festival.-Selected filmography:...

, starring Løkkeberg and Helge Jordal

Helge Jordal

Helge Jordal is an actor from Bergen, Norway. In 2006, Jordal was appointed a Knight of the Royal Order of St. Olav for his long career as an actor on both screen and stage, and his position as a "grand old man" among Norwegian actors.In 1985, he received the Amanda award as Best Male Actor for...

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Betrayal is set in Bergen in the year 1948. The film's protagonist is the seven-year-old Kamilla (Løkkeberg), who grows up in a society under reconstruction, and in a family in disintegration. Her parents are mostly concerned about money and about themselves, but in her friend Svein (Jordal) Kamilla finds the love and solidarity that she is missing.

External links

• Løperjenten at Filmweb.no (Norwegian)
• Betrayal at the Norwegian Film Institute