The ninth episode of “Makta” takes place on Utøya. Specifically at AUF’s summer camp in 1981. In the episode we get a glimpse of the short shorts of then AUF leader Thorbjørn Jagland. Actor Nils Bendik Kvissel plays Thorbjørn Jagland. At summer camp on Utøya, Jagland wore short shorts. Photo: Motlys Not least we get to see that young Jens Stoltenberg goes for a stroll along the love path on the island with a girl. Stoltenberg is said to have spent most of the trip talking about Nato. But other Utøya traditions also get a place in the episode: Football matches, concerts and politicians who are “grilled” with questions from engaged young people. – They manage to bring out the very special Utøya feeling, which you experience whether you are at your first or tenth summer camp, says AUF leader Astrid Hoem. AUF leader Astrid Hoem believes that the latest episode of Makta brings out the very special Utøya feeling. Photo: Milana Knezevic / news It is not just Hoem who likes the episode. On the website X, formerly known as Twitter, there are several people who are excited. – The latest episode of “Makta” is one of the best things I have seen on Norwegian TV, writes one. – Think that it is possible to create something as nice as episode 9 of “Makta”, writes another. An X user asks the following question after watching the episode: “Is today’s episode the first modern media production to show what Utøya is and means to the AUFs?” An AUF member gives a speech on the “ground” on Utøya. Photo: Motlys AP politician: – A fantastically good episode Andreas Halse is a politician in the Oslo Labor Party. He himself joined AUF in 1993, and has been to something like ten summer camps on Utøya. For him, watching the episode was powerful. – Yesterday it was very nice to see Utøya as I best remember it. A fantastically good episode of Makta, he writes on X today. Oslo politician Andreas Halse has himself been to summer camp on Utøya several times, and thinks Sunday’s episode of Makta was particularly moving. Photo: Heidi Fjørtoft Klokk He explains to news that he thinks the community at the summer camp was shown in a good way. – I have a very warm relationship with Utøya. That’s why it’s extra nice to see it described so well. Both for me, for the generation that was there almost 40 years ago, and for those who were there on 22 July – until he arrived. Film reviewer: – Impossible not to think about 22 July For many people in Norway, Utøya will always be so closely linked to 22 July that it is difficult to imagine a normal summer camp, believes AUF leader Hoem. During the terrorist attack on 22 July 2011, 69 young people were killed on Utøya. In Sunday’s episode of “Makta”, 22 July is not mentioned explicitly. Instead, we get to see the island at its most beautiful. Film reviewer in VG, Morten Ståle Nilsen, nevertheless believes it is impossible for Norwegians not to think of 22 July when watching the episode. – I think it stands out as perhaps the most poignant episode in the entire series. Of course, it has something to do with the fact that it unfolds where it unfolds, he believes. In the ninth episode of Makta, Reiulf Steen has a 15-minute long monologue on the beach on Utøya. It is especially Reiulf Steen’s 15-minute long monologue in the pumice stones on Utøya that causes many to draw parallels to 22 July, Ståle Nilsen believes. – Steen talks about how socialists in Chile were chased to death. Then you think for yourself. It is no coincidence that that scene takes up an entire quarter of an hour in the episode. Football matches, concerts and summer fling Astrid Hoem also interprets Steen’s monologue as a reference to 22 July. Another scene with Steen also touches her strongly. – When Reiulf Steen sings “We are AUF-ers” at sunset. Then I get very moved. The song is sung in AUF to this day. Despite the fact that 22 July will always mark Utøya and AUF, several things are the same as they were at the summer camps in the old days. There are still football matches, concerts and summer flirtations. – I think that is one of the strongest things that have managed to rebuild on Utøya. Precisely that we manage that balance between remembering those we have lost and continuing the summer camp, says Hoem.
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The last episode of Makta is praised – Brings out the very special Utøya feeling, says the AUF leader. – news Culture and entertainment
