Makta

Yngvild Sve Flikke's Makta (Power) won Best Series at Canneseries in 2023, alongside multiple Norwegian Gullruten Awards. The series consolidated Sve Flikke as a prestige-television director after her earlier feature work, and brought sustained international attention to the broader contemporary Norwegian political-historical-drama tradition that has been refining itself across the 2010s and 2020s.

Norway, 1972, the year of the country's first European Community referendum and one of the most politically consequential moments in post-war Norwegian history. The series follows three central figures across the political-historical environment: Reiulf Steen (Jan Gunnar Røise), the Labour Party's young wunderkind; his complicated mentor and rival Trygve Bratteli (Nader Khademi); and the young, abrasively brilliant doctor Gro Harlem Brundtland (Kathrine Thorborg Johansen, in the central performance), who is on the long path that would later make her Norway's first female Prime Minister.

The series operates simultaneously as political-historical reconstruction, character study of three generation-defining Norwegian political figures, and quiet meditation on how mid-century Scandinavian social-democratic political identity actually formed. Andrea Bræin Hovig anchors the substantial supporting cast as a senior figure in the period's political establishment. The series's commitment to procedural-historical accuracy and to the actual political-cultural geography of 1970s Oslo produced one of the most distinctive recent Norwegian-language productions.