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Beyond Sleep (2016)
Director: Boudewijn Koole
Cast: Reinout Scholten van Aschat, Pål Sverre Hagen, Jakop Ahlbom, Maria Annette Tanderød Berglyd
Runtime108 min
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A young geologist ventures out into the vast tundra of northern Norway to finish his research on meteorite craters, only to get hopelessly lost in both the wilderness and his own mind.
Critical Reception & Ratings
Beyond Sleep, the 2016 drama directed by Boudewijn Koole, has received generally positive reviews from critics. The film has been praised for its meditative exploration of a young geologist's journey into the vast Norwegian tundra and the psychological depths he encounters. While not widely seen by general audiences, Beyond Sleep has garnered modest ratings on IMDb and Rotten Tomatoes that indicate modest public reception.
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Beyond Sleep is a novel by the Dutch writer Willem Frederik Hermans, published in February 1966. The protagonist, Dutch geologist Alfred Issendorf, has a geology dissertation in preparation, and embarks on an expedition to Finnmark, northern Norway, to verify his dissertation director's theory that craters in the local landscape were formed by meteor impacts rather than by Ice Age glaciers. Initially he is accompanied by a group of three Norwegian students of geology, but soon after he is isolated from his companions wandering on his own in a land where the sun never sets.
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