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THE SERVICE

SUICIDE SERVICE

By Thorkell August OTTARSSON

SUMMER HILL ENTERTAINMENT - as SALES All rights, World

Thriller - Completed 2017

The motivations of two men running an illegal assisted suicide service to help relieve suffering change with the the appearance of two very different women in their lives.

- Year of production
- 2017
- Genres
- Thriller, Drama
- Countries
- NORWAY
- Languages
- NORWEGIAN, ENGLISH
- Duration
- 109 mn
- Director(s)
- Thorkell August OTTARSSON
- Writer(s)
- Thorkell August OTTARSSON
- Cast
- Tor Itai KEILEN, Nick FAUST, Camilla GUNNERUD, Hulda Elira THORKELSDOTTIR, Magnus GUDMUNDSSON, Anja Maria SVENKERUD
- Producer(s)
- Thorkell August OTTARSSON (Gloomy Elk), Raymond DULLUM (Gloomy Elk)
- Synopsis
- An older gay man Roy and his young prodigy Erik run an illegal assisted suicide service. They have very different attitude to the moral boundaries of their work. Roy believes one should only help those who are permanently ill while Erik believes that they have no right to question why people want to die. It is their life and theirs to do as they want with it.Everything is going well until one day when Erik takes home a computer from one of their clients. On their next secret meeting a journaliststumbles upon their activity and starts spying on them. She sees Erik throw away the computer and takes it to investigate the hard drive.A young woman (Jenny) asks for their help to end her life but Erik is reluctant since he knew her brother and might even have some feelings for her. The journalist pressures them for an interview and Roy starts to feels threatened when Erik becomes more and more obsessed with Jenny. These two women both test their relationship and their moral boundaries, with terrifyingresults.