The Lives of My Father
Magnus Skatvold / Norway / 2026 / International Premiere / 86 min
He thought his Norwegian father was a journalist. In reality, he was a CIA spy who fired AK-47s in the Kuwaiti desert and infiltrated cocaine laboratories in Colombia. It is time to face the truth, and it's stranger than fiction.
When Didrik Hallstrøm finds a box of old tapes and documents in his father’s attic, he also finds a story that is almost too strange to be true. Did his father Bjørn, a well-known Norwegian TV journalist, really work as a spy for the CIA for several decades? It is time to confront the father with his many secret lives.
But Bjørn is a true larger-than-life character with a demonic side, and has made a living telling (false) stories his entire life. A heavy smoker with asthma and an unbridled thirst for adventure, he gives his son a run for his money. But at the same time agrees to tell his story for the first time. And it is a story too wild to be fiction.
He shot AK-47s in the Kuwaiti desert with a bunch of innocent teenage girls in the jeep. He infiltrated cocaine laboratories in Colombia, was on the front lines in Bosnia, and hung out with militias in Afghanistan. But the many secrets also ended up destroying his family and himself.