Nordlicht Pictures presents · a Marisol Enge film
Everything north of here is quiet The LateSignal
Some transmissions take sixty years to arrive.
NORDLICHT PICTURES / IN ASSOCIATION WITH HALDEN & VOSS / A MERIDIAN NORTH PRODUCTION / A FILM BY MARISOL ENGE / “THE LATE SIGNAL” / INGRID SÖLVE / TOBIAS ARRHENIUS / NNENNA OKAFOR-LIND / DAVID HERREN / AND PATRICE MOREL as THE ARCHIVIST / casting by ELSA KVIST / music by JOHAN LINDQVIST-REYES / costume designer AMARA DIALLO / edited by RUTH OYELARAN / production designer KAI STENBERG / director of photography LEONORA BRUNI a.s.c. / executive producers HELENA VOSS, MARCUS DELANY, SOFIA AHRENS / produced by ANTON HALDEN p.g.a., MIRA SANDOVAL p.g.a. / written by MARISOL ENGE & TOMAS BERGH / directed by MARISOL ENGE
Synopsis
118 min · Sweden / Nigeria / UKIn the winter of 1964, a listening station on the Norwegian coast recorded eleven seconds of sound that nobody could account for. The tape was catalogued, shelved, and forgotten for six decades. Vera Sölve, an audio restorer with a failing ear and a stubborn instinct for pattern, finds it in a crate destined for disposal.
What begins as a technical curiosity becomes an obsession that pulls her north, into a village that has quietly organised itself around a sound it has never admitted hearing. The closer Vera gets to the source, the more the recording seems to be a reply rather than a signal.
Marisol Enge's third feature is a patient, luminous thriller about the arithmetic of distance — how far a message travels, and how much of it survives the journey. Shot on anamorphic film across three winters, it trades spectacle for a slow, terrible clarity.
“A film that listens harder than it speaks. Enge has made the rarest thing: a mystery that respects its own silence.” — The Northern Review
Principal Cast
In order of appearanceTechnical Specification
Distributor sheet rev. 4| Field | Value | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Aspect ratio | 2.39:1 | Anamorphic, 35mm Kodak 5219 |
| Runtime | 118 min | Includes 2:40 end crawl |
| Sound | Dolby Atmos | 5.1 and 7.1 fold-downs supplied |
| Languages | SV / EN / IG | Burned-in and separate subtitle tracks |
| DCP | SMPTE 2K | 4K master available on request |
| Certificate | PG-13 | 15 (UK), 12 (SE) |
Mystery Slow cinema Shot on film Cold coast Sound design
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