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Marius Holst

Highest Rated: 94% King of Devil's Island (2010)

Lowest Rated: 88% Reprise (2006)

Birthday: Jan 15, 1965

Birthplace: Oslo, Norway

Norwegian film director Marius Holst studied his craft in London in the late 1980s and graduated in 1990. His first short film "Visiting Hours" went on to win several prizes in both England and Norway. In 1994 his debut feature film "Cross My Heart and Hope to Die," a coming-of-age thriller, was released and also won an award, this time from the prestigious Berlin International Film Festival. The film garnered the director plenty of worldwide recognition, though he spent the next few years making commercials and working in television. He returned to feature filmmaking with the 2001 release "Dragonfly," another dark drama. "Mirush," released in 2007, focuses on a Kosovo boy who journeys to Norway to find his father. Holst had spent time in Kosovo in the late '90s and based his film partly on the story a young man who told him about his own absent father. Holst is also the director of the harrowing prison drama "King of Devil's Island," starring Stellan Skarsgård, about a group of teenage prisoners locked in a brutal struggle for survival at a reform school. Things change, however, when a new prisoner enters the fray and leads the other boys into rebellion against the tyrannical head of the school. The film is based on a true story.

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Highest-Rated Movies

94% 88% King of Devil's Island
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88% 83% Reprise
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59% Through a Glass, Darkly
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24% Cold Lunch
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The Congo Murders
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64% Mirush
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91% Cross My Heart and Hope to Die
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64% Next Door
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54% Dragonflies
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40% 90 Minutes
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Filmography

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The Congo Murders 2018 Director 90 Minutes 40% 2012 Executive Producer All That Matters Is Past 47% 2012 Executive Producer King of Devil's Island 94% 88% 2010 Director Through a Glass, Darkly 59% 2008 Executive Producer Cold Lunch 24% 2008 Executive Producer Mirush 64% 2007 Director Reprise 88% 83% 2006 Executive Producer Next Door 64% 2005 Executive Producer Dragonflies 54% 2002 Director, Writer Cross My Heart and Hope to Die 91% 1994 Director, Writer Visiting Hours 1991 Director
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