Another Round — Characters & Cast

To feel alive again and to reconnect with his wife, his students and the young man he used to be.

He starts as a burnt-out history teacher who bores his students and has drifted away from his family. Alcohol briefly makes him brilliant in the classroom and warmer at home. Then excess nearly destroys his marriage. After the loss of a friend, he finds release and acceptance in the final dance.

To escape his loneliness and emptiness.

The school's lonely gym teacher is the one who cannot stop once the experiment ends. His slide into dependency ends when he sails his boat out to sea and never returns.

Intellectual curiosity and relief from the exhaustion of family life.

The psychology teacher brings up Skårderud's theory and turns it into a study. The experiment also shows the pressure he feels as a father of small children.

A sense of connection and meaning outside the family life he missed.

The music teacher, who never had the family he wanted, finds a new confidence and becomes a caring mentor to an anxious student facing exams.

A real connection with her husband instead of his absence.

Martin's wife has drifted away emotionally. His brief revival draws her back, then his excess pushes her away, and a fragile reconciliation remains possible at the end.