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‘Power Play,’ a ‘Punk’ Portrayal of Politics, Wins Writers 2024’s Nordisk Film & TV Fond Prize
Relating Gro Harlem Brundtland’s unlikely rise to become Norway’s first woman prime minister, ‘Power Play’ already won Canneseries.
Awarded at the fest’s TV Drama Vision, the prize went to the satirical series’ main writers Johan Fasting, Silje Storstein and Kristin Grue. It joins a building satirical canon which includes “Blackport,” then huge NRK 2023 hit “Exit” and, indeed, SVT-Disney’s “Whiskey on the Rocks (SVT/Disney), pitched today at TV Drama Vision. “But the series that captured us the most was the one that managed to embrace seemingly dull historical facts with humour and playfulness, and that depicted an epoch of political history with all nuances of human idealism and flaws.
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