July 22, 2011 in Norway. A 2,000-pound homemade fertilizer bomb planted in a car exploded in Oslo’s executive government quarter, killing 8 and wounding dozens more. As emergency services raced to the scene, the terror continued on an island nearby – the island of Utøya – where youth members of the Norwegian Labour Party attended a summer camp. Here, Anders Breivik opened fire and killed 69 young adults.
Based on meticulous research, 22 JULY focuses on how ordinary people responded to the atrocity, treating the injured, burying the dead, comforting the grieving and punishing the guilty.
OUR TAKE A well-documented, human-centered drama about the Oslo and Utøya attacks in 2011. Shocking.