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Hjelperytteren (2019)

Hjelperytteren poster
Directed by
Jannicke Systad Jacobsen
Genre
comedy drama
Country
Norway
Runtime
1h 23m
Rated
9
Rating
6.1 of 10 from 9 voters
Elsewhere
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How it feels

A former professional cyclist admits years later that she used performance-enhancing drugs. The film follows her as she deals with the personal and public fallout of that confession.

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What happens

Hjelperytteren (English title: 110% Honest) is a Norwegian feature film from 2019 written and directed by Jannicke Systad Jacobsen. The film is a drama film–black comedy starring Silje Salomonsen as the former professional cyclist Kim Karlsen, who, several years after she quit, admits to having used EPO as a performance-enhancing drug during her successful career. For his role in the film, Espen Klouman Høiner was nominated for the 2019 Kanon Award in the category best supporting actor. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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