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O´HORTEN
| | DIRECTOR | Bent Hamer | | YEAR | 2008 | | STATUS | completed | | SYNOPSIS | After fourty years of dutiful service as a train engineer, 67-year-old Odd Horten is forced to retire. His orderly, solitary existence is about to give way to a future of absurd adventures and quirky encounters. And maybe even a new dog and an old love!...////
Odd Horten has driven the same train route every day for so long that the rest of his life has become a routine of comfortable rituals. But the time has come for the 67-year-old engineer to retire after forty years of dutiful service. His orderly, solitary existence is about to give way to a future of perplexing questions. How could Horten get himself in such an awkward situation when he should be celebrating his retirement? Will Horten ever travel by plane? Will he finally sell his prized boat? How does Horten end up in a pair of women's red high-heeled shoes? Will he survive a nighttime drive with a blindfolded man at the wheel? The only thing for certain is that Horten is first in line for some absurd abventures and quirky encounters. And maybe even a new dog and an old love!
The film draws a melancholy and humorous portrait of an aging man in situations most people probably will not get into, but hopefully will recognize. | | LENGTH | 90 min. | | FORMAT | 35mm, 1:1,85, Dolby SRD | | CAST | Bard Owe (Odd Horten), Espen Skjønberg (Trygve Sissener), Ghita Nørby (Mrs. Thogersen), Bjørn Floberg (Flo), Henny Moan (Svea), Bjarte Hjelmeland (train Conductor), Kai Remlov (Steiner Sissener) | | SHOOTING LOCATION | Norway | | ORIGINAL LANGUAGE | norwegian | | CO PRODUCTION WITH | BulBul Film (Norway) in co-production with Pandora Film Produktion (Germany) & ZDF/ARTE, Memento Films Production (France) & Arte France Cinema, Scanbox Films | | SUPPORTED BY | Norwegian Film Fund | | WORLD SALES | The Match Factory | | FESTIVALS AWARDS | Cannes Un Certain Regards 2008 | | GERMAN DISTRIBUTOR | Pandora Film Verleih | | SOUNDTRACK AVAILABLE | yes | | DVD VIDEO AVAILABLE | yes | | LINKS | --- | | PRODUCERS | Bent Hamer (producer), Karl Baumgartner, Christoph Friedel (co-producers), Alexandre Mallet-Guy (co-producer), Jim Frazee, Mads Peter Ole Olsen (executive producers) | | WRITERS | Bent Hamer | | DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY | John Christian Rosenlund | | EDITING | Pal Gengenbach | | CASTING | --- | | PRODUCTION | Catho Bach Christensen (prod. manager), Nikolai Frobenius (consultant), Svend Abrahamsen (consultant) | | SOUND | Morten Solum | | ART DIRECTION | Kalli Juliusson (art director), Anders Lunde (props) | | COSTUMES | Anne Pedersen | | MAKE UP HAIR | Eva Rygh Holstein | | MUSIC | Kaada | | BACK |
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