In special class: "The 12th Man" was a solid film success nationwide

Feedback / iTromsø: The film, which brings us back to Troms in 1943 with Thomas Gullestad in the leading role of Jan Baalsrud, was popular. Not only among the population of Tromsø, it has also been a great success at the national level.

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Jensen can say that in total, 425,239 spectators saw the movie in the cinema. 30,000 of them saw it in Tromsø. The second most-watched movie at the cinema up here this year is "Avengers: Infinity War" with a visitor count of 341190.

– For us at the cinema this is big and it means a lot. It was a movie we loved to watch and we realized that it would be a great success, "says Jensen

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In Tromsø, "The 12th Man" has made films such as "Kautokeino" and "Titanic" in the list of the most watched films. The fact that the movie has a local connection can be one of the reasons why it was so popular. The action in the film is based on an event that many locals in Tromsø and around are very strong.

Happy New Year for Norwegian Film

In addition to "The 12th Man" has become a great movie success, it has become the first half of this year, the best for Norwegian cinema in ten years. According to Film & Kino, 5,493,200 tickets were sold in the first six months of the year. The latest figures for chinooks were so high in 2009 when "Max Manus" was the big draw at the movies.

In addition to "The 12th man also the Norwegian films" Norske byggeklosser "and" Utøya July 22 "accounted for a large proportion of public figures.The last two were respectively the third and the seventh most popular film of the first semester

Guttorm Petterson, CEO of Film and Film, says that it might seem like it will be a record year for Norwegian cinema

.In addition, there is a new film "Karsten and Petra" in August, the "Skelvet" on August 31, "Moonlight in Flaklypa" on September 21, "The Murder in Congo" in October and "Sonja" for Christmas, this seems like a record year for Norwegian cinema.