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| Universal Kjell |
| Original title |
Kjell Universell |
| Type |
Shorts |
| Genre |
Comedy |
| Director |
Erik Richter Strand |
| Short summary |
An existential comedy about searching for yourself and finding something else. |
| Summary |
Kjell is forty, and obsessed with other people's opinion of him. He's the supervisor at a small telemarketing firm, and suspects that his employees are talking about him behind his back. To get to the bottom of this, he invents an alter ego, the secret and outrageous agent Reidar. But as Reidar starts living a life of his own, Kjell's problems only worsen. An existential comedy about searching for yourself and finding something else. |
| Cast |
Even Rasmussen, Stine Varvin, Endre Hellestveit, Bjørnar Teigen, Sjur Midttun |
| Screenplay |
Thomas Seeberg Torjussen |
| D.O.P |
Johan-Fredrik Bødtker |
| Editor |
Simen Gengenbach |
| Composer |
Marcus Paus |
| Sound |
Christian Schanning, Ingar Asdahl |
| Costume designer |
Isabelle Perraud |
| Scenography |
Dagny Drage Kleiva |
| Producer |
NRK Drama, Tordenfilm AS |
| Production company |
NRK Drama
Bjørnstjerne Bjørnsons Plass 1
N-0340 Oslo
Norway
Tordenfilm AS
Frydenlundgt. 15
N-0169 Oslo
Norway |
| Country of origin |
Norway |
| Release date (national) |
2003-09-16 |
| Technical information |
| Format |
DIGIBETA |
| Colour |
Colour |
| Length in min's |
29 |
| International sales |
Norwegian Film Institute
Dronningens gt. 16
P.O. Box 482 Sentrum
N-0105 Oslo,
tel: + 47 22 47 45 00
fax: + 47 22 47 45 97
e-mail: torils@nfi.no |
| Festival participation |
Bergen International Film Festival, Norway
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Director biography:
 Erik Richter Strand (b. 1974) is from Bergen, Norway, and studied direction at the Norwegian National Filmschool at Lillehammer. His short films have participated at, and garnered awards from, several international festivals, His film "Vanished" (2001) won the Director's Award for Best Short at the San Jose International Film Festival in 2002. He is currently developing his first feature project at the Norwegian production company Tordenfilm, which he co-owns.
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