Mariann Hole is a highly acclaimed and award-winning Norwegian actress, known from film and TV, as well as from theatre. She is part of the permanent ensemble at the National Theatre in Oslo, where she has performed several praised roles since her start in 2008.

Hole starred in the celebrated and awarded drama series Made in Oslo (2022), and acted female lead in the thriller series Ammo (2022). 2024 saw the premiere of HBO Max’s acclaimed comedy drama MILF of Norway in which she was given the lead role. MILF of Norway was met with great reviews, and Hole was highly praised for her portrayal of Lene.

Hole will also star as Nora in A Doll’s House at the National Theatre in Oslo this autumn.

Quisling: The Final Days, written by Anna Bache-Wiig, Siv Rajendram Eliassen and directed by Erik Poppe, saw its international premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival and has received great reviews.

Quisling: The Final Days was shortlisted to be the Norwegian Oscar Entry.

“A superb historical drama about the far-right’s threat to democracy. /…/ In a fresh and provocative approach to the titular subject matter, Poppe and his screenwriters view it through the lens of Quisling’s prison meetings. /…/ This is a gripping cinematic experience.”
– Variety, US

“The plot and focus kept me intensely enthralled. The film is so interesting and so ingeniously made. /…/ I would not be surprised if this film is nominated for an Oscar for Best Foreign Film. The film deserves it.”
– Telemarksavisa, Norway ★★★★★★

“Afterwards, the film stuck in my mind. It challenges you perhaps in more areas than I first thought. Maybe the most dangerous people aren’t those who just appear to be evil.”
– Haugesunds Avis, Norway ★★★★★

“Quisling: The Final Days is a painful and very good film that in several sequences has me close to breathless, spellbound by the humanly incomprehensible.”
– Bergens Tidende, Norway ★★★★★

“High-level cinematography.”
– Cinema, Norway ★★★★★

“Historical drama with current relevance /…/ Anna Bache-Wiig and Siv Rajendram Eliassen’s superb script effectively discusses the obvious conflict between Quisling’s stated goals and the means he used to achieve them.”
– Filmpolitiet NRK, Norway ★★★★★

“Quisling: The Final Days is stylish and well-acted.”
– Filmtopp, Sweden ★★★★

“Impressive, thought-provoking, and forces us to ponder difficult questions.”
– Kulturbloggen, Sweden ★★★★

Killer Heat, the movie adaptation of Jo Nesbø’s The Jealousy Man from his short story collection The Jealousy Man & Other Stories, premieres today on Amazon Prime.

The film stars Joseph Gordon-Levitt (Inception, The Dark Knight Rises), Shailene Woodley (Big Little Lies, The Fault in Our Stars) and Richard Madden (Game of Thrones, Bodyguard) and follows two twin brothers (Madden in a dual role as he portrays both twins) who are caught up in a violent love trianglewith the enigmatic Penelope Vardakis (Woodley). The plot thickens when a detective, known as The Jealousy Man, played by Gordon-Levitt, is called in to investigate a man (Madden) who might or might not have murdered his own twin.

Directed by filmmaker Philippe Lacôte, the script is developed by House of Gucci writer Roberto Bentivegna and Bridge of Spies’ Matt Charman.

End of Summer, based on the bestselling novel by Anders de la Motte, is a six-part psychological thriller, set to premiere soon on SkyShowtime in the Nordics. The series stars Julia Ragnarsson (Midsommar, The Bridge) and Erik Enge (Tigers, The Sandhamn Murders).

The plot follows Vera, a Swedish psychologist whose brother mysteriously disappeared when she was a child. Two decades later, during a group therapy session, she encounters a young man who triggers memories of her past, pulling her back to her rural hometown. Determined to solve the mystery of her brother’s fate, Vera embarks on a gripping journey for the truth.

The series is directed by Jens Jonsson (Young Wallander) and Henrik Georgsson (The Bridge) with lead writers Stefan Thunberg (Wallander) and Björn Carlström (Hunters), who also produced the series with Per Janérus (Hunters).

Helsinki, 1982. Recently divorced postal worker Ilmari Nieminen has promised his daughter a piano for Christmas, but with six days to the eve and with no money, he’s desperate. Through a colleague, Ilmari ends up transporting a valuable antique sofa to Kilpisjärvi, the northernmost town in Finland. At a gas station, a childhood friend appears and promises to fix Ilmari’s van in exchange for a ride north. Soon after, a persistent Saab 96 and then an egg-yellow Lada emerge in the rearview mirror, and Ilmari realizes that he is transporting something truly special.

The Winter Job is a darkly humorous and warmly touching suspense novel about friendship, love, and death. With Antti Tuomainen at the wheel, it flies a hundred and twenty kilometers an hour straight into the darkest heart of a Finnish winter night.

An emergency call comes  in the middle of the night, reporting an ongoing burglary at a winter-closed camping site in Bredäng outside Stockholm.
The nearest police car responds to the call. There is a light on in one of the fartherst caravans in the otherwise dark area, and when the officers open the door to the caravan, they are greeted by a horrific sight. Floors, walls, and furniture are completely covered in blood. A person has been killed with an ax and brutally dismembered.
In one of the rooms, a young man is sleeping on the floor with a severed arm as his pillow. He is arrested and taken into custody at Kronobergshäktet. There he is identified as the 17-year-old Hugo Sand, son to a famous author.
It turns out that Hugo is suffering from a rare kind of somnabulism which is triggered by nightmares. He can either be the perpetrator or a witness, but claims, nevertheless, that that he remebers nothing from that night.

Joona Linna, who is asked to take on the case, contacts his old friend Erik Marie Bark in order to use hypnosis in the quest to find out what happened inside the caravan. This becomes the starting point of a complicated hunt for a bestial killer who has just entered an extremely active phase.

The Sleepwalker is Lars Kepler’s tenth novel featuring Joona Linna.