Alaska Johansson

Alaska Johansson is a top headhunter whose life starts to fracture after a personal and professional crisis, triggering a chain of unsettling events she can’t fully explain. As her reality becomes increasingly unstable, she begins to suspect a conspiracy—until it’s unclear whether the danger is external, or rooted in something darker in her own past.

Norway contributes a stark, high-contrast look that heightens the film’s paranoia and isolation. Location filming took place at Finse—a remote, snow-reliable mountain area on the Hardangervidda plateau often used for extreme winter conditions—giving the film a cold, exposed visual edge. The production also filmed in Ulvik (Hardanger), adding fjord-and-valley landscapes that broaden the film’s sense of place beyond the urban storyline and reinforce its “dislocated” atmosphere.

Director: Achim von Borries

Released: 16 October 2013 (ARD)

Norway locations: Finse · Ulvik (Hardanger)

Production service in Norway provided by: BUG (line production services in Norway)