22 July (2018)

October 4, 2018 (US) • Crime, Drama, History, Thriller • 143m

Overview

On 22 July 2011, neo-Nazi terrorist Anders Behring Breivik murdered 77 young people attending a Labour Party Youth Camp on Utøya Island outside of Oslo. This three-part story focuses on the survivors, the political leadership of Norway, and the lawyers involved.

Director

Paul Greengrass

Writers

Paul Greengrass, Åsne Seierstad

Top Billed

Jonas Strand Gravli

Keywords

neo-nazism summer camp bomb aftermath car bomb based on true story norway trial tragedy brain injury oslo, norway shooting spree far right mass killing summer camp island

Where to watch

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Netflix

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Top Billed Cast

Jonas Strand Gravli

Viljar Hanssen

Anders Danielsen Lie

Anders Behring Breivik

Jon Øigarden

Geir Lippestad

Seda Witt

Lara Rashid

Ola G. Furuseth

Prime Minister Stoltenberg

Maria Bock

Christin Kristoffersen

Isak Bakli Aglen

Torje Hanssen

Thorbjørn Harr

Sveinn Are Hanssen

Marit Andreassen

Prime Minister Aide

Øystein Martinsen

Prime Minister Aide

Valborg Frøysnes

Prime Minister Aide

Thor-Harald Normann

Simon Sæbø

Anders Kulsrud Storruste

Anders Kristiansen

Monica Borg Fure

Utøya Camp Leader

Mathias Eckhoff

Utøya Security

Selma Strøm Sönmez

Bano Rashid

Hilde Olausson

Breivik's Mother

Lena Kristin Ellingsen

Signe Lippestad

Anneke von der Lippe

PST Director

Trygve Svindland

Justice Minister

Trim Balaj

Odd Ivar Grøn

Pål Espen Kilstad

PM's Bodyguard

Håkon Smeby

NRK Reporter

Endre Hellestveit

Security Official

Lars Arentz-Hansen

Security Official

Turid Gunnes

Family Lawyer

Ulrikke Hansen Døvigen

Prosecution Lawyer

Hasse Lindmo

Prosecution Lawyer

Tone Danielsen

Judge Wenche Arntzen

Vivian Hein

Defense Lawyer

Fredrik Stenberg Ditlev-Simonsen

Defense Lawyer

Charlotte Grundt

Detective Anderson

Ingri Enger Damon

Inquiry Lawyer

Mikkel Bratt Silset

Hønefoss Policeman

André Sørum

Hønefoss Detective

Tómas Guðbjartsson

Op Room Trauma Surgeon

Andri Wilberg Orrason

Op Room Trauma Doctor

Eindride Eidsvold

Extremist

Joakim Skarli

Knut Arne Pettersen , Paramedic

Marita Fjeldheim Wierdal

Forensics Officer

Terje Ranes

Parent

Øyvind Venstad Kjeksrud

Parent

Silje Breivik

Parent

Mette Scarth Tønseth

Parent

Ellen Birgitte Winther

Parent

Ole Aleksander Wold Lien

Tommy Hyving

Security Guard

Crew

Tinna Ingimarsdottir

Makeup Artist

Fie Baro

Makeup Artist

Vidar Svendsen

Makeup Department Head

Dorte Pedersen

Special Effects Makeup Artist

Marius Winje Brustad

Art Direction

Peter Burgis

Foley Artist

Ida Astero Welle

Prosthetics

Mark Taylor

Sound Re-Recording Mixer

Rachael Tate

Dialogue Editor

Rune Andersen

Special Effects Supervisor

Ben Smithers

Music Editor

Fredric Vogel

ADR Mixer

Tone Carlsen

Costume Supervisor

Ad Stoop

Sound Recordist

Árni Gústafsson

Sound Mixer

Zoe Morgan

Script Supervisor

Jun B. Kim

Assistant Editor

Glen Gathard

Foley Mixer

Eirik Halsen

Sound Recordist

Paul Greengrass

Director

Scott Rudin

Producer

Tor Arne Øvrebø

Line Producer

Chris Carreras

Executive Producer

Ellen Michelsen

Casting

Gregory Goodman

Producer

Paul Greengrass

Writer

Eli Bush

Producer

Dan Hubbard

Casting

William Goldenberg

Editor

Chris Carreras

First Assistant Director

Pål Ulvik Rokseth

Director of Photography

Liv Ask

Production Design

Rikke Louise Andersson

Set Decoration

Margrét Einarsdóttir

Costume Design

Sune Martin

Original Music Composer

Åsne Seierstad

Novel

Amy Lord

Associate Producer

Richard Wilson

Second Assistant Director

Reviews

StamS

⭐ 7/10

April 25, 2025

A dry film that fails to highlight the true face of the emerging phenomenon of Nazism in Europe. Greengrass (director and screenwriter) tries (and succeeds in some scenes) to shock, but this is not enough for the viewer to understand how dangerously neo-Nazi ideology has infected the Western world. The creators seem to believe that simply narrating such a senseless act is enough to awaken viewers, but they are wrong.

To truly understand both the sick essence and the causes that are bringing this monstrous ideology back to the forefront, we need to look in the mirror. We need to understand and, consequently, accept that the root of Nazism lies in the heart of the societies we have built around us.

Nazism did not fall from the sky. Breivik did not fall from the sky, nor was he born from a metaphysical Hell. He was born, raised, and lives among us. He is our neighbour. He is the one who usually says "we need a Franco," "under the military Junta everyone had a job," "I have no problem with illegal immigrants, but...".

That is why, in my opinion, the only intensely bright spot of the film is Breivik's last line to his lawyer at the end of the film. A line that concludes a conversation between the two of them, in which the lawyer seemingly wins on points, as he chooses not to respond to this line.

"You don't even see us."

This line encapsulates the whole problem of European Nazism, as the vast majority of our fellow citizens choose to turn a blind eye to all of this. We choose to look the other way, to pretend we didn't see how the supermarket clerk spoke to the immigrant customer, not to react to the bus driver when he unreasonably forces the refugee child off the vehicle, to continue getting our information from journalists who whitewash fascists at every opportunity, offering them a platform to utter lies sprinkled with half-truths.

Europe has turned a blind eye. It has chosen not to see Nazism in France, Italy, Sweden, the UK, Germany, Greece, Ukraine, Hungary, and other countries because it considers other problems more important. And to a certain extent, it is right. Nazism is not the most important problem. But it is the most deafening alarm that everything is wrong: the bail out of banks, the violation of human rights, the abolition of labour rights, austerity policies, in short, the abandonment of citizens to the mercy of capital and economic growth.

And all this with the complicity of our own awkwardness and inaction.

So, we don't even see them, because we have more important problems to deal with and because in our dizziness and panic as we drown, we will grab anything that even faintly appears as something that can keep us afloat. Many will grasp the weight of Nazism and drag down with them those around them, just as happened 90 years ago.

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Budget

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22 July (2018)

Paul Greengrass, Åsne Seierstad

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