Sofies verden

Aug 6 1999 N/A 1h 53m
Drama, Fantasy, History

One day fourteen-year-old Sophie Amundsen comes home from school to find in her mailbox two notes, with one question on each: "Who are you? and "Where does the world come from?

Plot

Sofie is an ordinary Norwegian girl. One day she recieves a video tape on which a certain Alberto Knox talks directly to her from ancient Greece. They then start to meet at different occasions and throughout the film, Alberto takes Sofie on an odyssey of the history of philosophy, from ancient Greece, over the Roman empire, the Middle ages, the renaissance, the enlightenment, the big revolutions and up to today. Throughout this journey, they start to realise that they are only fictions of a story writer's imagination and start conceiving a plan for escaping into reality.

Written by

Jostein Gaarder, Petter Skavlan

Directed by

Erik Gustavson

Production Countries

Finland, Sweden, Norway, Iceland

Production Companies

SF Norge, Filmkameratene, NRK

Languages

Norsk, Deutsch, svenska

Awards

2 nominations

Scores
# of Votes
2,038
Average Rating
5.8 out of 10
Metascore
NA
Popularity
NA