Erik Skjoldbjærg

Erik Skjoldbjærg is a Norwegian filmmaker who directed the original 'Insomnia' (1997), which Christopher Nolan later remade, and subsequently directed 'Prozac Nation' and 'Pioneer'.

Skjoldbjærg's original 'Insomnia' established the moral geometry that Nolan later expanded — a detective whose guilt makes him morally equivalent to the killer he pursues — in the perpetual-daylight setting of Arctic Norway.