Blessed Are Those Who Thirst (1997)
Directed by Carl Jorgen Kionig
Genres - Mystery, Crime, Thriller |
Sub-Genres - Gay & Lesbian Films |
Run Time - 118 min. |
Countries - Norway |
MPAA Rating - NR
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Synopsis by Bhob Stewart
Carl Jorgen Kionig directed this Norwegian police thriller, winner of the Norwegian Amanda award for the year's best film. Axel Hellstenius' screenplay is adapted from a novel by Norway's justice minister Anne Holt. Lesbian policewoman Hanne Wilhelmsen (Kjersti Elvik), who has a live-in lover, tools about Oslo on her Harley-Davidson. After a number of women vanish, police find blood but no bodies, and Wilhelmsen begins a search for the suspected serial killer. Holt's crime novels are a popular, successful series, providing the source for a TV miniseries, Blind Goddess, also directed by Kionig with the same principal cast seen in this feature. Shown at the 1998 Haugesund Film Festival.
