Kimen

The Seed (originally "Kimen") is the debut of director Erik Solbakken, based on the renowned novel by the same name by famous writer Tarjei Vesaas, with a script written by Solbakken himself.

It's summertime on a rural island out in Western Norway, where everything seems to be in balance. A mysterious stranger comes ashore as a passenger by boat, and the slumbering island's life is definitely over.

The mysterious stranger is well-dressed and talks poetically, but is obviously traumatized by war and disturbing images in his mind. He's felt some kind of drag to go to the island, and it seems his presence shakes things up, even if he doesn't have anything to do with it, when a pig starts eating her newborn piglets. He says he is interested in rare plants.

The film's best aspect is the well-photographed mystery, and the worst seems to be the forced dialect all the actors are "forced" to use. I also feel the music is a bit too atonal and violent sometimes.

This movie is made available in 2024 when it was released on interregional (region-free) Blu-Ray Disk by Norwegian Film Classics as the 37th release in a new series with classics, NFK0037, with subtitles in English, and is supposed to be held in stock for film lovers.