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Emotional distance; clergy; snow; minimal plot and dialogue; long takes: these are some of the recurring elements in Tregenza's oeuvre. So it is in his striking new film, The Fishing Place, which is set during the Nazi occupation in a small Telemark town, whose inhabitants include the local Lutheran pastor (Andreas Lust), a German who used to be a Roman Catholic priest; the local doctor (Ola Otnes); Hansen, the local Nazi (Frode Winther); Anna (Ellen Dorrit Petersen), a young woman who's come to town to work in the home of the elderly Margit (Gjertrud L. Jynge), a former actres...