ANIMATION   80 MIN   COLOUR   1:1,85   4 REELS   DOLBY SR*D

(Slipp Jimmy fri)
The day Odd reveals to Geir that he owes the unpredictable and violent Ivan 40,000 kroner, and that he has implicated Geir in it, their old buddy Roy Arnie comes to visit, along with their mutual friend Kælle.

Ever since he was a little boy, Roy Arnie has been fascinated by the circus. He joined several Russian circuses and toured with them in the Soviet Union. At the moment he works as a tour manager for Cirkus Stromowskij. This circus has a long and proud tradition, but is a sad sight today. Their main attraction is Jimmy the Elephant. Jimmy has been a part of the circus for twenty years. Throughout his entire "career" they have supplied him with drugs, uppers so that he would be at hist best in the ring, downers to calm him down after the show when they have to head back out on the road. This practice has resulted in Jimmy becoming a drug addict. And like all drug addicts he is extremely paranoid about the police.

When Jimmy escapes from the circus, he gets a militant animal rights group on his tail that will stop at nothing to liberate animals and punish corpse-eaters. The Sami Mafia is also interested in Jimmy. Up on the tundra a gang of drunk, frustrated hunters have for days been drinking and shooting
at anything that moves, without shooting a single moose.
But here Jimmy finally finds his first real friend, the Bull Moose, the magnificent king of mountain and plain.

CHRISTOPHER NIELSEN (born1963) is from Oslo. He studied at SHKS 1983/84. His first cartoon was published in Gateavisa in 1980. He has published 19 cartoon strips. He directed and animated Friday Night Fever (1996), which won the Viewers' Award at Oslo Animation Festival and received positive reviews at the Short Film Festival the same year. He wrote and directed an animation series, produced by AnimagicNet AS and NRK in 2000. In cooperation with Dag Rønningen he wrote a 24 episodes series totalling 12 minutes for the internet (2000).