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Othala (2021)
Director: Yim Brakel
Cast: Gijs Naber, Matsen Montsma, Sophie van Winden, Martijn Fischer
Runtime46 min
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The gentle Odin (15) is the son of Herman Brest, the front man of an extreme right-wing group. After a speech by Herman goes viral, the family receives serious threats and Odin gets into a fight with the popular Victor (16) at school. As a pariah at school and a promise in his father's increasingly aggressive group, Odin feels trapped between two worlds. He desperately clings to loyalty to his father, but his once so familiar world view slowly starts to falter.
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Othala (2021), directed by Yim Brakel, is a critically acclaimed drama that explores the complexities of familial loyalty and political ideology. While reception and ratings for the film are not widely available, its subject matter examining the struggles of a teenager caught between his far-right father's extremist views and his own evolving moral compass has resonated with critics.
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Fans of character-driven dramas will appreciate the nuanced performances by the cast, especially lead actor Gijs Naber, as they explore the complex themes of family, loyalty, and ideological clashes in director Yim Brakel's 2021 film Othala.
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Othala, also known as ēðel and odal, is a rune that represents the o and œ phonemes in the Elder Futhark and the Anglo-Saxon Futhorc writing systems respectively. Its name is derived from the reconstructed Proto-Germanic *ōþala- "heritage; inheritance, inherited estate". As it does not occur in Younger Futhark, it largely disappears from the Scandinavian record around the 8th century, but its usage continued in England into the 11th century, where it was sometimes further used in manuscripts as a shorthand for the word ēðel ("homeland"), similarly to how other runes were sometimes used at the time. The rune may also be the origin of the Gothic letter 𐍉 ("utal"), used by Wulfila in the 4th century CE for his Gothic Bible, although Greek letters may also have been used as a source.
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