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| Germany Year 00 |
| Original title |
Tyskland år 00 |
| Type |
Shorts |
| Genre |
Comedy |
| Director |
Emil Stang Lund |
| Short summary |
The Norwegian trade union leader Walter Jonsen contemplates his Weltanschauung in the Reichstag before making a public address to the people of Berlin. Celebrated by his German Metal Union colleagues he ends the night being mugged by two prostitutes. An unlikely Samaritan brings him back to life and he rediscovers the joy of helping the little man getting fair pay for his work. |
| Cast |
Emil Stang Lund, Erceg Stipe, Orhan Güner, Tanja Schuh, Dagmar Heser, Elisabeth Blonzen, Cornelius Schwalm, Peter Krüger, Peter Lewan, Konrad Arlt
Gunnar Baginski
Wolfgang Maedge |
| Screenplay |
Emil Stang Lund |
| Based on |
A Story by Emil Stang Lund and Bendik Grossmann |
| D.O.P |
Gaute Gunnari |
| Editor |
Jon Endre Mørk |
| Composer |
Richard Wagner, S. Merethe Mongstad |
| Scenography |
Rashid Abbar |
| Producer |
Emil Stang Lund |
| Production company |
Parabel Film as |
| Co-producer |
Sabina Doerr, 57mm Filmproduktion, Berlin |
| Country of origin |
Norway, Germany |
| Release date (national) |
2001-06 |
| Technical information |
| Format |
35mm |
| Screen ratio |
1:1,85 |
| Colour |
Colour |
| Sound System |
Dolby SRD |
| Length in min's |
10 |
| No. of reels |
1 |
| 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 |
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Director biography:
 The director Emil Stang Lund was born March 27th 1963 in Boston, USA. As a Norwegian-American dual national, Stang Lund is an autodidact and versatile director, screenwriter and sometimes actor, who, since 1982, has held an assortment of jobs within the Norwegian film industry. He won the Prize for Best Director at the Moscow International Film Festival in 1993 for his first feature “Bat Wings. His second feature “Virgins of Riga” (1996) was a comedy on Scandinavian businessmen set in the ex-Soviet Republic of Latvia. He is a passionate lover of epic films hot in the grand 65/70mm, but also finds fulfilment in making short films comedies. His short film “Eye for an Eye” won the Special Award of the Jury in Venice 1998 and Grand Prix of the European Short Film Competition at the Brussels International Thriller, Science Fiction and Fantasy Festival in 1999.
Filmography:
1986: Zinoberveien (short film)
1989: Den nye kapellanen (The New Curate, short film),
Hvitsymre i utslåtten (White Anemone in the Outfield, short film)
1990: Homo Interruptus (short film)
1992: Flaggermusvinger (Bat Wings, feature)
1996: Jomfruene i Riga (Virgins of Riga, feature)
1998: Tann for tann (Eye for an Eye, short film)
2001: Tyskland år 00 (Germany Year 00)
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