22 July: A story of violence and healing

In 2011, Anders Breivik killed 69 teenagers at a youth camp on the island of Utoya, Norway. It makes for a bone-chilling start to Paul Greengrass’s new film 22 July, which examines the devastation of the attacks, but also how the country came together in the aftermath.

22 July: A story of violence and healing

In 2011, Anders Breivik killed 69 teenagers at a youth camp on the island of Utoya, Norway. It makes for a bone-chilling start to Paul Greengrass’s new film 22 July, which examines the devastation of the attacks, but also how the country came together in the aftermath, writes Laura Harding

And for the filmmaker, it’s an urgent story to tell. “You’ve only got to look around the world, everywhere we look the hard right is on the rise,” he says.

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