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The Man who loved Haugesund
Original title Mannen som elsket Haugesund
Type Documentaries
Director Jon Haukeland, Tore Vollan
Short summary The Man Who Loved Haugesund is a documentary about the Polish jew Moritz Rabinowitz, who came to Haugesund in 1911 and built a clothing empire from nothing. Regardless of his efforts and success, he remained an outsider in
town. Prior to WW II, he was an outspoken fighter against nazism and was the first person the Germans wanted to arrest after the occupation of Norway. After a dramatic escape he was finally arrested and deported in December 1940. Rabinowitz died in German captivity in 1942.
Cast The Voice of Moritz Rabinowitz, Jørgen Langhelle
Narrator Torgeir Engen
Screenplay Jon Haukeland, Tore Vollan
D.O.P Tore Vollan
Editor Søren Ebbe, Trygve Hagen, Hanne Myren
Composer Richard Johnsen
Producer Hanne Myren
Production company Medieoperatørene as
Co-producer Vibeke Vogel, Barok Film Denmark
Country of origin Norway, Denmark
Release date (national) 2003-08-19
Technical information
Format DIGIBETA
Colour Colour - B/W
Length in min's 59
Festival participation Norwegian International Film Festival Haugesund 2003
Nordisk Panorama, Malmö
Cinequest Film Festival, San Jose, 2004
Full Frame International Documentary Film Festival
Norwegian Documentary Film Festival Volda 2004
Vancouver Jewish Film Festival
Stockholm Jødiske Film Festival
Norwegian Short Film Festival Grimstad 2004
Reykjavik Shorts & Docs
Encounters Documentary Film Festival, South Africa
Norwegian Film Festival, Delft, The Netherlands
Norwegian Film festival, Delft, The Netherlands
Nordische Filmtage Lübeck
15th Palm Beach Jewish Film Festival
Jerusalem Jewish Film Festival
2005 New York Jewish Film Festival
2005 Atlanta Jewish Film Festival
2005 Seattle Jewish Film Festival
2005 Jewish Film Festival, Jacob Burns Centre
2005 Toronto Jewish Film Festival
2005 Montreal Jewish Film Festival
2005 Jewish Film Festival Berlin
2005 Boston Jewish Film Festival
2005 Festival of Jewish Cinema, Australia
2005 Hong Kong Jewish Film Festival
2006 New Jersey Jewish Film Festival
Prizes received Nordisk Panorama Malmö: Documentary Jury's Special Mention
Den norske regjerings: Menneskerettighets pris for beste kortfilm
URL http://www.mop.no

 


 
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Director biography:
Jon Haukeland (born 1973). Lives in Oslo and is one of the four owners of the company Medieoperatørene. He started working with documentaries as a reporter, journalist and director at the Norwegian Broadcast Corp. (NRK). Together with his colleagues at Medioperatørene he has created several prize winning documentaries. He is currently involved in producing the documentary “Badass girls” and developing a feature script for the company.

Filmography (as director)
1997: The American look (documentary, 30')
1998: Babelfish and the Atlantic family (documentary, 52')
1999: Before the bombs (documentary, 30').
2000: Ante - rite of passage (documentary, 52')
2003: The man who loved Haugesund (documentary, 60')

Tore Vollan (born 1967). Studied cinematography at the Polish Film Academy in Lodz and documentary film at the Volda College in Norway. Worked three years as a cameraman at TVP in Stavanger and Oslo. From 1996 working freelance, mainly shooting documentaries for NRK and TV2. Attended the Master Class under DoP Michael Ballhaus, ASC at Filmstudium in Hamburg, Germany,1998-2000. Debut on "The bloody nuisance" by Andrea Katzenberger, a feature film competing in the Kinderfest at Berlinale 2001 and which won prizes in Giffoni, Tokyo and Amsterdam.

Filmography (as cinematographer, partly):
2000: The bloody nuisance, feature
2001: Lykkelandet, documentary series TV2 Norway
2002: Dark woods, feature (shared credit); The pepper grains, children detective series for NDR Germany, Großstadtrevier drama series fro NDR Grmany
2003: The man who loved Haugesund”, documentary (also co-dir.), School, drama series, NRK Norway

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