The Half Brother

A Scandinavian family saga based on the internationally acclaimed and best-selling novel by Lars Saabye Christensen, The Half Brother is a dramatic family saga that offers an historical parable of 20th Century Europe. On V-Day, May 1945, as a continent emerges from war, Barnum Nilsons' mother Vera is raped in her Oslo attic by an unknown man, leading to the birth of Fred - Barnum's half brother. When Barnum is born five years later, to the man that Vera has since met and married, the Nilsen family, like Europe, is already splitting in two. Growing up during the Cold War Barnum with his father, Fred searching for his half brothers become estranged, and Fred eventually disappears. (Source: MHz Worldview)