Director of Haugesund Closing Film ‘The Murder of Benjamin’ Says the Infamous Neo-Nazi Killing Was a ‘Wake-Up Call for the Whole Nation’ But ‘They Are Rising Again’

Norwegian director Ingvild Søderlind says that the 2001 killing of Benjamin Hermansen was a “wake-up call for the whole nation.” Hermansen, a teenager born to a Norwegian mother and a Ghanaian father, was stabbed to death by neo-Nazis.  “It was a tragic culmination of a wave of neo-Nazism in Norway in the ’90s. But it also […]