The third last of Norwegian film master Arne Skouen's feature films is also the last of the films in his "troubled child trilogy", a topic he was very concerned with. He was in the latter years of his life very concerned with talking disabled and troubled children's' causes in Norwegian public, through media and as a writer. With the trilogy he managed to put these issues high on the media agenda, resulting in debates as well as public scrutiny.
Just as in "Om Tilla" three years earlier, and "Vaktpostene" a year before, his daughter Synne Skouen, has the main role, here as a strange and quiet 15 year old girl which calls herself Pinne (which means "stick") hitchhikes a ride with a lorry driver (Hilmar, played by Erik Bye) to the big sea down in southern Norway. She looks scared and shy, and the lorry driver thinks Pinne has run away, and says so, just as his old lorry breaks down. Slowly the young girl opens up to Hilmar.
Erik Bye carries this film, which he has no problems with, being a man with great stature and poise. He had for years been a TV personality as both a TV presenter and as a singer, and has no problems in stealing the show with his humor and presence. He also is a man with a big heart, and there is no wonder he was chosen for this role.
This film has scarce use of film music, though not nearly anything like his first in this trilogy "Om Tilla", which is very quiet. Still the music is very suitable, at least with a typical 60'ies sound track.
I found the film both interesting and charmingly made, and Skouen manages to make an otherwise not so interesting story charming due to good acting. This was Synne Skouen's fifth of six films with her father directing, but she didn't follow an acting career after participating in the film's of her father's. She later was a film- and broadcast composer.
The film was viewed in a remastered DVD-release with optional Norwegian heavy-of- hearing subtitles, but not with any other language option. The film has been well restored with a crisp clear image, and is part of a 16 CD-box with the complete (but one film) works of Arne Skouen, which also includes two TV-documentaries with interviews with the film master, and with excerpts of his filmography, "Arne Skouen - The Complete Film-collection", released upon the 100 years anniversary for his birth.
