Premiere: ‘The Agent, the life and lies of my father’

Reality always surpasses fiction, and in the case of the protagonist of The Agent, even more so. This Norwegian docuseries, which we premiere after its award-winning screening at the Canneseries festival, tells the story of Bjørn Hallstrøm, whose life could inspire several series and films.

“I’m a secret spy,” Bjørn Hallstrøm once told his son Didrik. Now, three decades later and a father himself, Didrik Hallstrøm begins to question whether that childhood memory is real or not. Was his absent father really a secret agent, traveling the world on CIA missions? What starts as an innocent game slowly unravels into a long life of lies that we discover in parallel with Didrik.

The Agent, the lifes and lies of my father is a gripping docuseries from Norway’s NRK that hooks you from the very beginning thanks to a protagonist who, if he weren’t real, would need to be invented. A megalomaniacal and charismatic figure, capable of doing anything to sustain his lifestyle.