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What is the true cost of a bargain? Subtotal is a story of an untraditional encounter between a Swedish salesman and a Norwegian couple on their monthly bargain hunting at the border between Norway and Sweden.

Production and distribution

Production Year:
2014
Production country:
Norway
Release date (national):
2014-03-14
Release date (international):
2014-06-03
Production company:
Revenka AS
Producer:
Gudrun Austli
Agnethe Sophie Buus Jensen
Sales agent:
KurzFilmAgentur Hamburg e.V.

Director

  • Gunhild Enger

    Director Gunhild   Enger is a graduate of the Edinburgh College of Art, and has a Master of Film  Directing degree from the School of Film Directing in Gothenburg. She received a BAFTA nomination for her graduation film BARGAIN (2005), and has since screened her films and received awards at festivals all over the world. Her films PREMATURE (2012) and A SIMPLER LIFE  (2013) were both nominated for Norwegian Amanda awards. In 2016 she co-directed the short film THE COMMITTEE, which premiered at the Locarno Film Festival and in 2020 her short film PLAY SCHENGEN was nominated for 5 international festival awards including Chicago, Locarno, Valladolid, El Gouna and Bergen. She also worked with casting on Ruben Östlund's Palme d'Or-winning film The Square (2017). TWO BUDDIES AND A BADGER – THE GREAT BIG BEAST (2020) is Gunhild’s first feature film as director, alongside Rune Spaans.       

    Gunhild Enger

Cast

Sebbe:
Leif Edlund
Hanne:
Hanne Tangen
Kurt:
Kurt Zickfeldt

Awards

2014:
DokuFest - International Documentary and Short Film Festival Kosovo
Best International Short Film

Festivals

2014:
Minimalen Short Film Festival
2014:
International Short Film Festival Hamburg
2014:
The Norwegian Short Film Festival
2014:
DokuFest - International Documentary and Short Film Festival Kosovo
2014:
Encounters Film Festival
2014:
Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival
2014:
BIFF - Bergen International Film Festival
2014:
Riga International Film Festival 2annas
2014:
Femmina International Film Festival
2014:
Nordic Film Days Lübeck
2014:
Leeds International Film Festival
2014:
Aarhus Film Festival
2014:
Sleepwalkers International Student and Short Film Festival
2014:
Kort
2015:
Göteborg International Film Festival
2015:
FEC European Short Film Festival
2015:
Glasgow Short Film Festival
2015:
Go Short International Short Film Festival Nijmegen
2015:
Vienna Independent Shorts
2015:
Vilnius International Short Film Festival
2016:
Brest European Short Film Festival
2017:
Glasgow Short Film Festival
2017:
Vienna Independent Shorts
2020:
Riga International Film Festival

Crew

Director:
Gunhild Enger
Screenplay:
Gunhild Enger
Cinematographer:
Peter Ask
Camera:
Kjetil Fodnes
Editor:
Vårin Andersen
Prop Master:
Thomas Øyjordbakken
Costume Designer:
Ida Wangen
Makeup artist:
Ida Wangen
Sound Design:
Baard Haugan Ingebretsen
Sound Recording:
Andreas Lindberg Svensson
First assistant director:
JC Frugård
Script:
Solveig Karoline Hagelund
Casting:
Liv Mari Mortensen
Stella Casting
Still photographer:
Cecilia Torquato

Technical information

Genre:
Drama
Comedy
Format:
DCP 2k
Screen ratio:
1:1,85
Colour:
Colour
Length in min's:
18'
Language:
Swedish
Norwegian
Subtitles:
English

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