Power Play (2023)

Season 1

The incredible story of Gro Harlem Brundtland, who in the late 70s works as a young doctor, fighting for self-determined abortion, when she almost by accident, stumbles into politics. As the government implodes around her, Gro learns to play her own games of power, climbing the ranks until she is the last woman standing in the ruins of Labour’s celebrated social democracy, ending up as Norway’s first female Prime Minister in 1981.

Released Oct. 29, 2023 Episode 56 min None+

Genres: Comedy, Drama, History

Keywords: tmdb.political-intrigue, tmdb.political-satire, tmdb.norwegian-history, imdb.politics, imdb.norway, imdb.prime-minister, imdb.1970s + 3 more, imdb.1980s, imdb.one-word-title, imdb.female-protagonist

Production Companies: Motlys, Novemberfilm

Network: NRK1

Country: Norway
Languages: Norwegian

IMDb 4758

7.8

/1182/

Trakt

/19/

TMDb

/6/

Letterboxd

3.7

/336/

Tomatoes

Silje Storstein
Director

Kathrine Thorborg Johansen
Gro Harlem Brundtland

Jan Gunnar Røise
Reiulf Steen

Anders Baasmo Christiansen
Odvar Nordli

Sjur Vatne Brean
Jens Stoltenberg

Erik Hivju
Einar Gerhardsen

Nader Khademi
Einar Førde

Trond Espen Seim
Arvid Engen

Flo Fagerli
Nini Stoltenberg

S1E1 - Episode 1

Power Play is the incredible story of Gro Harlem Brundtland, who in the late 70s works as a young doctor, fighting for self-determined abortion, when she almost by accident, stumbles into politics. As the government implodes around her, Gro learns to play her own games of power, climbing the ranks until she is the last woman standing in the ruins of Labour’s celebrated social democracy, ending up as Norway’s first female Prime Minister in 1981.

Oct. 29, 2023, midnight