Dead Snow (Død snø)

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Dead Snow
Original title	Død snø
Type	Features
Genre	Comedy
Director	Tommy Wirkola
Short summary	The group of friends had all they would need for a successful Easter vacation; cabin, skis, snowmobile, toboggan, copious amounts of beer and a fertile mix of the sexes. Certainly, none of them had anticipated not returning home alive! However, the Nazi-zombie battalion haunting the mountains surrounding the aptly named Øksfjord (Axefjord) had other plans ...
Summary	1945. Northern Norway is severely stricken by the German invasion, but few places worse than Øksfjord. The German soldiers rape and pillage with sadistic zeal, and ultimately the civilian population has had enough. They attack the occupants armed with any available weapons and an escalating thirst for revenge after years of abuse. Soon they have slaughtered almost everyone, but Colonel Herzog and some of his men escape into the mountains where they freeze to death ... Several years later, eight medical students go for their Easter vacation to the mountains around Øksfjord. They are bringing skis, snowmobile and copious amounts of beer, so expectations are high for a pleasant vacation. Perhaps some of them might even get laid? Sara, who has traveled in advance, is the one most familiar with the mountains. She has picked a different route to the cabin, and none of the others find it strange that she hasn't arrived before them. Maybe she was trapped by the weather and had to dig a snow cave. Certainly, none of them fear that she could be the victim of an inconceivable cruelty hidden in the mountains all these years. That is, until they are visited by a rather shady hiker who tells them the story about the German occupants' cruel fate. Suddenly, the cabin is surrounded by a battalion of German zombie soldiers, eager to rip them apart. A long night is ahead of them. Can anyone survive this painful ordeal? With "Kill Buljo - The Movie", director/scriptwriter Tommy Wirkola, co-writer Stig Frode Henriksen and their able assistants proved that with great enthusiasm in place, you do not necessarily need a big budget to create a phenomenon. The gang returns, once again with a groundbreaking movie in Norwegian cinema: A Nazi-zombie movie. "Dead Snow" features established actors and a very proficient technical crew. The special effects budget alone amounts to $600,000, more than any other Norwegian movie. 475 quarts of blood were used in the scenes where the Nazi-zombie soldiers arise from their graves and attack the non-suspecting medical students on their Easter vacation. The feelgood-Nazi-zombie-splatter-comedy "Dead Snow" is a very different Norwegian horror movie.
Cast	Charlotte Frogner (Hanna) \| Stig Frode Henriksen (Roy) \| Vegar Hoel (Martin) \| Jeppe Beck Laursen (Erlend) \| Evy Kasseth Røsten (Liv) \| Jenny Skavlan (Chris) \| Bjørn Sundquist (The Wanderer) \| Ane Dahl Torp (Sara) \| Lasse Valdal (Vegard)
Screenplay	Stig Frode Henriksen and Tommy Wirkola
D.O.P	Matt Weston
Editor	Martin Stoltz
Composer	Christian Wibe
Scenography	Liv Ask
Producer	Tomas Evjen and Terje Strømstad
Production company	Miho Film AS
Co-producer	Harald Zwart, Espen Horn, Kjetil Omberg
Country of origin	Norway
Release date (national)	2009-01-09
Release date (international)	2009-01-15
Technical information
Format	35mm
Colour	Colour
Length in min's	90
Length in meters	2463
International sales	Elle Driver \| adeline@elledriver.eu
Distributor (Norway only)	Euforia Film AS Nedregt. 5 \| N-0551 Oslo Tel: +47 21 37 99 92 \| Fax: +47 24 20 05 01 kjetil@euforia.no \| www.euforia.no
Festival participation	2009 Sundance International Film Festival Midnight Screenings 2009 Brussels International Fantastic Film Festival, Belgium 2009 CPH:PIX Copenhagen, Denmark 2009 Crossing Europe Flimfestival Linz, Austria 2009 Seattle International Film Festival, USA 2009 Libertas Film Festival Dubrovnik 2009 Karlovy Vary International Film Festival 2009 Grossmann Film & Wine Festival Slovenia 2009 Strasbourg European Fantastic Film Festival 2009 Athens International Film Festival 2009 Reykjavik International Film Festival
Prizes received	2009 Toronto After Dark Film Festival: Audience Award 2009 Strasbourg European Fantastic Film Festival: Audience Award 2009 Night Vision Fantastic Film Festival, Helsinki, Finland: Audience Award 2009 Night Vision Fantastic Film Festival, Helsinki, Finland: Audience Award

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Director biography:
Director Tommy Wirkola Tommy Wirkola, born 1979, is the director and scriptwriter of Dead Snow. From Alta, Northern Norway. Student of media at the Finnmark University College and a student of Film Science at the Lillehammer University College. Bachelor in Film & Television at the Bond University in Australia. Motion picture debut as director/scriptwriter of Kill Buljo - The Movie in 2007 (sold 90.000 movie tickets and 95.000 DVDs), and has also made the short films Stealing Candy and Little Red Riding Hood from the Hood.
Together with Stig Frode Henriksen ha made Project Adonis and The Kill Buljo Show, as well as the TV series The Saga of Kurt Josef Wagle.