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Norwegian Director Eirik Svensson’s Africa-Set Drama ‘Safe House’ Tells Pulled-From-Headlines Story of Aid Worker’s Harrowing Plight
Svensson's latest film follows a Norwegian aid worker facing an impossible choice as she attempts to save a man from mob violence in a nation at war.
An explosive confrontation between a Muslim man and a Christian mob in an African nation on the brink is at the heart of “Safe House,” an upcoming drama from Norwegian filmmaker Eirik Svensson. Written by prolific screenwriters Harald Rosenløw-Eeg and Lars Gudmestad, “Safe House” is based on the real-life story of Lindis Hurum, a Norwegian field worker with the aid group Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders) who was stationed in the Central African Republic when civil war erupted in 2013. Focusing on “an almost undescribed conflict in one of the least-visited countries in the world,” Svensson said he wanted to tell his story from the perspective of aid workers and local inhabitants as a way for audiences to “really connect to the victims of war.”
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