The Wave (Bølgen) is a 2015 Norwegian disaster film, directed by Roar Uthaug. It was Norway’s official submission for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film at the 88th Academy Awards.
Based on the fact that mountain pass Åkneset, located in the Geiranger fjord in Norway, one day will fall out and create a violent tsunami of over 80 meters that will crush everything in its path before it hits land in Greenland. A geologist gets caught in the middle of it and a race against time begins.
A sequel titled The Quake (Skjelvet) was released in 2018.
