City of Tigers

Freely adapted from Knut Hamsun's Nobel Prize-winning novel "Hunger". A gifted artist goes through the same journey, hunger and pain in the Norwegian capitol Oslo as in 1890, but now during the Covid pandemic in the winter of 2021.

Cast

Jonathan Chedeville

as The Artist

Charlotte Frogner

as Minken Dreyer

Hans Olav Brenner

as Bookstore Manager

Ingar Helge Gimle

as Used Store Proprietor

Elias Peña Corral

as The Beggar / Rom-Karl

Haakon Smestad

as The Virgin

Bjørn Sundquist

as Short Sighted Man

Mimmi Tamba

as The Singer / Ylajali

Helén Vikstvedt

as Mrs. Gundersen

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