The Half Brother
7.4
Season 1
45 min
S1 · E1 · Jan 6, 2013
Liberation Day Episode 1
45 min
S1 · E2 · Jan 6, 2013
Norway Puts Dots There Episode 2
45 min
S1 · E3 · Jan 13, 2013
Livin Doll Episode 3
45 min
S1 · E4 · Jan 20, 2013
T for Tango Episode 4
45 min
S1 · E5 · Jan 27, 2013
Discus and Death Episode 5
45 min
S1 · E6 · Feb 3, 2013
Penalties Episode 6
45 min
S1 · E7 · Feb 10, 2013
Debutantes Episode 7
45 min
S1 · E8 · Feb 17, 2013
Cormorant Episode 8
8 episodes in Season 1
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Revolving around the life of un-produced screenwriter Barnum Nilsen, 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’s mother Vera is raped in her attic in Oslo by an unknown man, leading to the birth of Barnum’s half brother, Fred. 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 together during the Cold War – Barnum with his father, Fred searching for his – the half brothers become estranged and Fred eventually disappears. At the film festival in Berlin in 1990, as the Wall is still coming down, Barnum learns that Fred has returned. Finally, as the true identity of Fred’s father comes to light, the two half brothers may once again be reunited.
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Cast
11 people
Nicolai Cleve Broch
Barnum
Known for
Beforeigners
Ragnarok
Frank Kjosås
Fred
Known for
Detective Hole
The Saboteurs
Mariann Hole
Vera
Known for
Teddy's Christmas
Wisting
Marianne Nielsen
Boletta
Also in
Varg Veum - Sleeping Beauty
Hard asfalt
Oskar Sandven Lundevold
Barnum as Boy
Known for
Burning
Agnes Kittelsen
Vivian
Known for
The Playlist
Detective Hole
Vibeke Juell Bugge
Vivian as a girl
Also in
To: Anyone Listening
AF1 (Alle for en)
Henrik Holm
Young Peder
Known for
SKAM
The Tunnel
Ghita Nørby
Den gamle
Ola G. Furuseth
Peder
Vibeke Bugge
Unge Vivian
Per-Olav Sørensen Director · Lars Saabye Christensen Writer Mette M. Bølstad Writer
Director
Per-Olav Sørensen
Writer
Lars Saabye Christensen
Writer
Mette M. Bølstad
Executive producer
Nina B. Andersson Figenschow
Composer
Kristian Eidnes Andersen
Editor
Wibecke Rønseth
Editor
Christopher Gibbs
Editor
Anders Bergland
Production designer
Anna Asp
Production designer
Merete Boström
Costume designer
Karen Fabritius Gram
Total runtime 6h 0m · Episode length 45 min · Type Miniseries
Show info
Premiered
January 6, 2013
Final episode
February 17, 2013
Status
Ended
Network
NRK1
Country
Norway
Type
Miniseries
Episode length
45 min
Total runtime
6h 0m
Original language
Norwegian
Production
Monster
Production
Norway
Produced in
Languages
Original title
Halvbroren
Spoken on screen
Norwegian
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