TROLL – directed by Roar Uthaug – (limited spoilers)
Near Hjerkinn in Norway, workers tunnel through the Dovre mountains to build an extension to the Nordland Railway, which currently ends at Trondheim some 165 kilometers to the north. After explosives are detonated, a much larger, natural explosion occurs, launching a cloud of boulders that rains on both the environmentalists protesting the drilling and the workers conducting it. Then something large comes out of the mountain.
Soon after all that, paleontologist Nora Tidemann (Ine Marie Wilmann), who is in the middle of a dig on the northern Norwegian coast, is surprised and irritated to be summoned to Oslo. (After many unproductive months, her expedition had finally discovered something. We are shown part of what she uncovers, but the exact nature of the discovery is not revealed, and we may need to wait for TROLL’s first sequel to find out about it. Through things unrelated to Nora’s dig, we do learn that the skeletal structure of a troll is similar to that of a human.)
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