Run, Man

RUN, MAN tells the story of Jon, a school teacher in one of Oslo’s poorer districts in the 70s, with unassailable opinions and haunted by the desire to be ahead in a race that always has to be won again and again. It also tells the story of Rita, who chases a deeper truth behind the roles she is expected to play – she couldn’t even fall in love, she was in love with being in love, in the liberations that once would make it possible to fall in love. And it tells the story of a chaotic musician and a rootless woman who returns after many years abroad.

Though they all share a belief in a better society, they are torn apart by desire and jealousy, power struggle and lust for revenge.

First published: Aschehoug, 1980
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