FACTOTUM
SYNOPSIS
Henry Chinaski works as a manual laborer in factories and warehouses in order to subsidize a life of drinking, race-track betting, skirt-chasing, and most of all, writing stories that no publisher will touch. Based on the novel by Charles Bukowski, "Factotum" is the story of a man living on the edge, of a writer who is willing to risk everything to make sure that his life is his poetry.
| DIRECTOR | Bent Hamer |
| YEAR | 2005 |
| STATUS | completed |
| FESTIVALS AWARDS | Cannes 2005 "Quinzaine des Réalisateurs" |
| CAST | Matt Dillon Lili Taylor Marisa Tomei Fisher Stevens Didier Flamand |
| CO PRODUCTION WITH | BulBul Film (Norway) StarkSales (USA) Pandora Film (Germany) ZDF/arte Network Movie Mikado Film Canal+ Celluloid Dreams SF Norge Norsk Filmstudio |
| SUPPORTED BY | Norwegian Film Fund Norwegian Film Institute |
| WORLD SALES | Celluloïd Dreams (Paris) |
| GERMAN DISTRIBUTOR | Pandora Film Verleih |
| LENGTH | 93 min |
| FORMAT | colour 35mm 1:1.85 Dolby SRD |
| SHOOTING LOCATION | USA |
| ORIGINAL LANGUAGE | English |
| PRODUCERS | Jim Stark Bent Hamer (producers) Christine Kunewa Walker (executive producer) Rainert Mockert Karl Baumgartner (associate producers) Meinolf Zurhorst Reinhold Elschot Peter Nadermann (associate producers) |
| WRITERS | Bent Hamer Jim Stark(based on the novel by Charles Bukowski) |
| CASTING | |
| DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY | John Christian Rosenlund |
| PRODUCTION MANAGEMENT | Christine Kunewa Walker |
| EDITING | Pål Gengenbach |
| MUSIC | Kristin Asbjørnsen |
| SOUND | Petter Fladeby (sound designer) John L. Sims Jr (sound recordist) |
| ART DIRECTION | Eve Cauley Turner (production designer) |
| COSTUMES | Tere Duncan |
| MAKE UP HAIR | Patricia Regan |
| SOUNDTRACK AVAILABLE | n/s |
| DVD VIDEO AVAILABLE | n/s |
| LINKS | www.factotum-film.de |
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