The Curse Of Kane

Norwegian Gunnar Ryan Wiik is a dreamer. But what makes him stand out, is that he is seemingly willing to do anything to make his dreams come through.

Ryan is preparing for an enormous entrepreneurial endeavour - a plan that will change the film industry as we know it. But Ryan has a past. For over 10 years he worked day and night to produce a Hollywood film based on the Norwegian pulp western hero Morgan Kane. Then the whole thing collapsed. The investors pulled out, leaving Ryan with little but a bad reputation.

We follow Ryan out of the smoking ashes of his failed enterprise as he straddles his bold new vision. Will his past destroy him? Or will he clear his name? ...and will he re-emerge as a western hero?

World premiere at Göteborg International Filmfestival 2026, Dragon Award Best Nordic Documentary


Directors: August B. Hanssen & Even G. Benestad
Producer: Carsten Aanonsen

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