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After two years at Brøynes Psychiatric
Clinic, Elling is set to return to an apparantly normal everyday
life. Along with his somewhat more challenged roommate Kjell
Bjarne, he has been given a welfare apartment in Majorstua
in Oslo, and is expected to take care of himself.
For someone who finds crossing
a restaurant floor comparable to crossing Antarctica, this
new life is fraught with obstacles that need to be surmounted.
With irreproachable willpower,
a slow-developing courage and some help (along with thrats
of being forcibly returned to Brøynes), Elling and
Kjell Bjarne dodder along down unfamiliar roads. And when
Kjell Bjarne meets the Woman, and Elling vomits from Norwegian
contemporary lyrical poetry, situations occur where these
frightened young men are forced to give alle they've got -
and then some.
| Director: |
Petter Næss |
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| Screenplay: |
Axel Hellstenius based on
"Blood Brothers" by Ingvar Ambjørnsen |
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| Director of Photography: |
Svein Krøvel |
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| Editor: |
Inge-Lise Langfeldt |
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| Production Designer: |
Harald Egede Nissen |
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| Sound: |
Jan Lindvik |
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| Music: |
Lars Lillo Stenberg |
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| Producer: |
Dag Alveberg for Maipo Film-
og TV-produksjon |
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| Cast: |
Per Christian Ellefsen,
Sven Nordin, Per Christensen, Jørgen Langhelle, Marit
Pia Jacobsen |
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| Release date: |
16 March 2001 |
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| Contact: |
Maipo Film- og TV-produksjon,
PO Box 275, N-1319 Bekkestua
Tel: +47 67 52 51 90, Fax: + 47 67 52 51 96 |
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Elling
is PETTER NÆSS's second feature film. His
first was the comedy Absolute Hangover which
won awards for best male and female lead in 1999. Otherwise
he has primarily busied himself in the world of plays
and revues, both as scriptwriter, director and actor.
Since 1997 he has been emplyed as a director at Oslo
New Theater, and was, among other plays, responsible
for the critically-acclaimed stage version of Elling
and Kjell Bjarne.
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