Løvekvinnen

Løvekvinnen

Genres: Drama

Actor: Rolf Lassgård, Kjersti Tveterås, Aurora Lindseth-Løkka, Mathilde Thomine Storm

Director: Vibeke Idsøe

Country: Norway

Movie: Løvekvinnen

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Duration: 126 min

Release: 2016

Løvekvinnen (The Lion Woman) is a novel by the Norwegian writer Erik Fosnes Hansen. It was published in 2006, and a film adaptation was released in 2016.The film was a multinational project and had a budget of approximately NOK 52 million. Parts of the film were shot in Lillehammer, and the rest was recorded at various locations. The film's premiere was on August 26, 2016 in Norwegian cinemas.

   

T he book tells the story of Eva Arctander, who was born with hypertrichosis, which causes an abnormal amount of hair growth over the body. The novel describes her life from birth until the age of 13 or 14. She is examined by doctors in a degrading manner and bullied at school. She falls in love and experiences respect and disrespect. The book opens with her as part of a traveling theater group along with others with rare diseases or abnormalities. The book then goes back in time, and describing her experiences in relation to her condition and the people she meets. The book alternates between first-person and third-person narration.