The Angel

IMDb link: 1208664
IMDb rating: 6.7 (891 votes)
Genres: Drama
Director: Margreth Olin
Cast: Antti Reini, Maria Bonnevie, Benjamin Helstad, Gunilla Roor and others

Release date: 2 Oct 2009
Release year: 2009
Runtime: 97 minutes
Country: Norway, Sweden, Finland
Keywords: voice over narration, loss of father, domestic violence, man hits a woman, human animal relationship, male rear nudity, mother daughter relationship, cat, rape, child's point of view

Plot:

As the film opens, a doped-up Lea (Maria Bonnevie) makes an extremely bad impression on her baby daughter's foster parents; later, flashbacks reveal her disturbing youth and young adulthood. From the wrong side of the tracks, Lea grows up in a small house on the edge of the forest. When her father dies, her fragile mother Madelene takes up with the jealous alcoholic Ole. Unable to prevent Madelene from being beaten, Lea winds up as a substance abuser.

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