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On Wednesday, NRK drama director Ivar Køhn, series creator Alexander Eik and screenwriter Linda May Kallestein are due to answer allegations of falsification of history directed at the great series “Atlantic Crossing” at the Norwegian Broadcasting Council .
One of the leading experts on Norwegian history in the Royal Household, Tor Bomann-Larsen, also appears on the NRK appeal body. There he will delve into the criticisms he made last week.
– NRK is out of control. They seem not so much in control of their own millions as their own intentions. That many strange things are said about the war is one thing, but that the state channel produces them for large sums is not good. It’s serious for them, Bomann-Larsen tells Dagbladet.
– I need to clean
Accused of falsifying history
The historian secured national debate after he gave the war series “Atlantic Crossing” the slippery slope for the series’ interpretation of Princess Märtha and its importance to the course of the war. He believes that the series takes so many liberties that it is embarrassing that “Atlantic Crossing” is shown abroad.
– That I appear at the Broadcasting Council is a matter of routine, and I appreciate that they ask me. In my opinion, NRK has a big problem to clean up here, says Bomann-Larsen, and he refers to the concept of “false history” that he introduced last week.
– As I understand it, the theater director Ivar Køhn believes that they will not contribute to the falsification of history and that NRK is based on facts in their productions. So they have something to defend, because I think it is well documented that this is not the case, continues the expert.
Nonsense soap opera
– Hold them accountable
– What is your goal in remaining on the Broadcasting Council?
– I will try to hold NRK responsible for producing and exporting false history. Norway is placed at the center of the event and that’s wrong, says Bomann-Larsen.
NRK drama director Ivar Køhn has received criticism in this case. He hopes to run for the Broadcasting Council.
– Bomann-Larsen’s statements must be at your expense. It will be nice to meet at the Broadcasting Council on Wednesday to discuss the drama as fiction. Among other things, I will present how we have evaluated the series, says Køhn to Dagbladet.
-I think we are well within what we have to accept from fiction, he adds.
Yesterday, the stage was set for episode five of “Atlantic Crossing.” It’s called “Empty Promises” and it’s about a group of uncompromising Norwegian sailors who come to live at Crown Princess Märtha’s residence, Pooks Hill, in Washington DC.
HARD WORK: In the weekly fact check of the NRK drama series, it is explained that the Crown Princess took in war sailors. Screenshot: NRK
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– I found my way to Pooks Hill
In NRK’s weekly fact-check of the drama series, it is explained that the Crown Princess hosted war sailors.
– Various sources have described that Norwegian sailors and war refugees sought and received help from Princess Märtha. Many of them made it to her home, Pooks Hill, NRK claims, referring to a section of Trond Norén Isaksen’s “Women Among Kings” book:
“Märtha held open days for Norwegian soldiers and others working for the Allied cause, ups and downs. Sometimes there were buses full of wounded Norwegian sailors, and Märtha would let the Norwegians pass with no place to spend the night, to sleep in Pook’s Hill »
– Goodbye to the facts
Tor Bomann-Larsen, for his part, claims that the war sailors did not live in Märtha’s residence.
– Märtha’s house was the residence of the crown princess, but never a vacation spot for sailors of war. It has never happened. It is an invention that fits into the false picture they are trying to draw, and it is free poetry. The problem is not yet that they compose, but that they compose on historical grounds. The whole series is a farewell to the facts, he says.
– Unreasonable vocabulary
NRK series fool no one
The creator of the series and director of the Cinenord production company, Alexander Eik, has constantly questioned criticism of the falsification of the Tor Bomann-Larsen story. They point out that the series is a fictional production inspired by real events, not a documentary.
– Sad to see the unreasonably harsh wording in the “Atlantic Crossing” debate, Eik and screenwriter Linda May Kallestein wrote in an article published on Dagbladet last week.
He was the real “Queen’s Gambit”
In working on the series, Eik and Kallestein have studied Märtha methodically and thoroughly for several years, they report. They have also “used the most popular sources, in addition to looking for new ones.”
– Among other things, we’ve spoken with President Roosevelt’s grandchildren and other first-hand sources, write the series creators, who refer to NRK’s weekly fact-checking articles for crafting what is fact and fiction in the Serie.
