"There is a father, Bjrn Hallstrm, and there is a son, Didrik Hallstrm. Between them, the memory of a moment in the family car an instant that, like lightning, splits an existence in two when the former confesses to the latter, who is twelve years old: I am a secret agent. Three decades later, that son, who has just become a father himself, decides to find out if that shimmering, almost lifelike phrase I am a spy is true."
"Didrik takes taxis, trains, planes, and drives to different parts of Norway and Europe to talk to people who worked with his father when he was a television journalist. And each one, in their own way, confirms something he already knows: Bjrn is a very strange man. Despite not having a smooth relationship, driven by a question that hammers in his head, he decides to go visit his father in Sofia (Bulgaria), where Bjrn lives in retirement."
At age twelve Didrik Hallstrm hears his father Bjrn Hallstrm confess "I am a secret agent." Thirty years later, newly a father, Didrik investigates whether that claim was true. He travels across Norway and Europe to interview former colleagues from Bjrn's television journalism career. Interviewees describe Bjrn as a very strange man. Didrik visits Bjrn in retirement in Sofia, Bulgaria, seeking answers. He questions whether Bjrn's reporting trips and the Kom nrmere series, which took teenagers to conflict and crisis zones, were covers for espionage or actual CIA missions. The film won Best Docuseries at Cannes.
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