''Mirush'' (''Blodsbånd'') is a 2007 Norwegian movie directed by

Marius Holst Marius Holst (born 15 January 1965) is a Norwegian filmmaker, a producer and a screenwriter. Education Holst studied at the London International Film School. In 1990, his diploma film was nominated for the Amanda Award for Best Short Film, and ...

. It tells the story of an

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boy, Mirush, who travels to

Norway Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic countries, Nordic country located on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. The remote Arctic island of Jan Mayen and the archipelago of Svalbard also form part of the Kingdom of ...

in search of his father. Italian actor

Enrico Lo Verso Enrico Lo Verso (born 18 January 1964) is an Italian actor. He studied acting at Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia The (; CSC), also referred to as the (), is an Italian national film school headquartered in Rome, with satellite educa ...

plays the role of Bekim, Mirush's father. The film was shown in a number of film festivals, winning the top award at the 56th International Film Festival Mannheim-Heidelberg in Germany. It also won the 24th FesTroia International Film Festival award.

Plot

Mirush leaves

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hoping to find his father in

, who abandoned the family when Mirush was very young. Now the father runs a restaurant in

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, but he is also in deep debt to the Albanian Mafia. Mirush starts to work in his father's restaurant without letting him know that he is his son.

Cast

as Bekim *Nazif Muarremi as Mirush *Glenn Andre Kaada as Frode *Ramadan Huseini as Ismet *

Anna Bache-Wiig Anna Bache-Wiig (born 19 September 1975) is a Norwegian actress and writer. She is best known for writing the screenplay for the film ''Utøya: July 22'' in collaboration with Siv Rajendram Eliassen. Early career Bache-Wiig was educated at the ...

as Hannah *Bajrush Mjaku as Vulkan *

Mirjana Karanović Mirjana Karanović ( sr-cyr, Мирјана Карановић; born 28 January 1957) is a Serbian actress, film director and screenwriter. Considered one of the best Serbian and Yugoslavian actresses of all time, she is probably the best known f ...

as Hava *Michalis Koutsogiannakis as Kokken *Fisnik Zekiri as Armend

References

External links

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Marius Holst´s Statement
about Mirush 2007 films 2007 drama films Norwegian crime drama films 2000s Albanian-language films 2000s Norwegian-language films Films directed by Marius Holst Films set in Oslo {{2000s-Norway-film-stub