One of Us: The Story of a Massacre in Norway — and Its Aftermath is a non-fiction book by Norwegian journalist Åsne Seierstad. It was adapted into the 2018 American film 22 July by English writer and director Paul Greengrass. One of Us tells the lifestories of several Norwegians – notably 18-year-olds Bano Rashid, Simon Sæbø, and Viljar Hanssen – leading up to the 22 July 2011 attacks by Anders Breivik, when he terrorized both Oslo's Regjeringskvartalet and a summer camp associated with the Norwegian Labour Party. Seierstad explains in the epilogue that journalist Tina Brown commissioned her to get anything on "that man" for publication in Newsweek. Instead she wrote about the reaction in Norway, then left for Libya. When Breivik's trial was set to begin, Brown tried again.
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One of Us was adapted into a 2018 film.
22 July2018 · film · 143 min · dir. Paul Greengrass · IMDb ↗On 22 July 2011, neo-Nazi terrorist Anders Behring Breivik murdered 77 young people attending a Labour Party Youth Camp on Utøya Island outside of Oslo. This three-part story focuses on the survivors, the political leadership of Norway, and the lawyers involved.
