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Nestled in Norway's Sunnmøre region, Geiranger is one of the most spectacular tourist draws on the planet. With the mountain Åkerneset overlooking the village — and constantly threatening to collapse into the fjord — it is also a place where cataclysm could strike at any moment. After putting in several years at Geiranger's warning centre, geologist Kristian (Kristoffer Joner) is moving on to a prestigious gig with an oil company. But the very day he's about to drive his family to their new life in the city, Kristian senses something isn't right. The substrata are shifting. No one wants to believe that this could be the big one, especially with tourist season at its peak, but when that mountain begins to crumble, every soul in Geiranger has ten minutes to get to high ground before a tsunami hits, consuming everything in its path.
Those ten minutes are some of the most nerve-rattling you'll experience in any movie this year, but as The Wave continues the stakes only get higher. Ace director Roar Uthaug keeps things hurtling forward in a state of high anxiety until the very end. Giving Hollywood a run for its money, the film's canvas is broad, its effects eerily realistic, and its scale immense. Here comes the flood.
 
DIRECTOR
ROAR UTHAUG
PRODUCER
MARTIN SUNDLAND
ARE HEIDENSTRØM
SCRIPTWRITER
JOHN KÅRE RAAKE
HARALD ROSENLØW EEG
STORY BY
MARTIN SUNDLAND
JOHN KÅRE RAAKE
ROAR UTHAUG
D.O.P.
JOHN CHRISTIAN ROSENLUND, FNF
EDITOR
CHRISTIAN SIEBENHERZ
SOUND DESIGN
CHRISTIAN SCHAANNING
MUSIC
MAGNUS BEITE
SUPERVISING PRODUCER
JAN EIRIK LANGØEN
LINE PRODUCER
ØRJAN KARLSEN
LINE PRODUCER ROMANIA
RODICA POPA
VFX SUPERVISOR
LARS ERIK HANSEN
PRODUCTION DESIGNER
LINA NORDQVIST
CASTING
INGRID LYKKESLET STRØMSKAG
ANDREA ECKERBOM
CO-PRODUCER
FUZZ
FILMKRAFT INVEST
STORYLINE STUDIOS
FILM I VÄST
PIGGY BÆNK
COPENHAGEN FILM FUND
GHOST VFX
TRE VÄNNER
GIMPVILLE
KRISTIAN EIKJORD - KRISTOFFER JONER
IDUN KARLSEN - ANE DAHL TORP
SONDRE - JONAS HOFF OFTEBRO
JULIA - EDITH HAAGENRUD-SANDE
ARVID ØVREBØ - FRIDTJOV SÅHEIM
MARGOT VALLDAL - LAILA GOODY
JACOB VIKRA - ARTHUR BERNING
GEORG - HERMAN BERNHOFT
VIBEKE - EILI HARBOE
ANNA - SILJE BREIVIK
THOMAS - HÅKON MOE
TERESA - TYRA HOLMEN
PHILLIP - THOMAS BO LARSEN
MARIA - METTE HORN
BUS DRIVER - LADO HADZIC
MAN WITH PHONE - TOM LARSEN
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“A TRIBUTE TO THE POWER OF STORYTELLING ON A HUMAN SCALE. The polar opposite of a disaster, it’s a triumph of modest means.” – Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal
“AS EXHILARATING AS ANY EPIC AMERICAN THRILLER, and better than most. The Wave has an unerring plausibility and a nerve-jangling pace that keeps you locked in the tensest state of high anxiety you will experience in any other movie this year.” – Rex Reed, NY Observer
“The 85 foot wave is a sight to behold, but not as riveting as the before and after.” – Michael Nordine, Village Voice
“EXCITING. Disaster filmmaking the way it ought to be done.” – Kenneth Turan, LA Times
“A SURGING BLAST OF FUN.” – Dennis Dermody, Paper
“EVEN MORE IMPRESSIVE THAN ITS HOLLYWOOD ANCESTORS. The filmmakers know how to keep the stakes high and the screws tightened.” – David Fear, Rolling Stone
“If you think foreign films can’t compete with Hollywood when it comes to delivering popcorn entertainment, PREPARE TO BE CARRIED AWAY BY THE WAVE.” – Calvin Wilson, St. Louis Post-Dispatch
“The execution of the tsunami itself is AWE-INSPIRING.” Katie Walsh, Chicago Tribune
“AN IMPRESSIVE, THUNDEROUS NERVE-WRACKER.” – Peter Debruge, Variety
“A THRILLING RIDE. Spectacular scenery of fjords and craggy, snow-capped peaks proves as beautiful to look at as it is deadly.” – Deborah Young, The Hollywood Reporter
“THE WAVE BARRELS THROUGH WITH THE IMPACT OF A TSUNAMI. Gripping and naturalistic.” – Marjorie Baumgarten, The Austin Chronicle
“The human scale of the story makes the movie more tragic and also more chilling.” - Stephanie Merry, Washington Post
“THE MOVIE WORKS.” – Anthony Lane, New Yorker
“PUTS HOLLYWOOD DISASTER MOVIES TO SHAME. A stellar work that will hopefully teach Hollywood a thing or two. “ – Perri Nemiroff, Collider
“THE WAVE expresses the disaster movie genre’s visceral power as few films have in recent memory.” – Sam Woolf, We Got This Covered
“It takes what American disaster movies do right (impressive and intimidating visuals) and ditches what they mess up.” – Matt Singer, Screen Crush
“A cut above the rest.” – Trace Thurman, Bloody Disgusting
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