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Norwegian films:
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Thursday 17. 2.
Prague, Kino Atlas 18:00
Brno, Kino Art 18:45
37 og et halvt/ 37 and a Half
Norway, 2005, 99 min., comedy/drama, norwegian with czech subtitles
Selma is 37-years old, the aging process is running at full speed, and she is definitely not where she should have been in her life: her boyfriend is leaving her, their friends are following him (they were really his friends from the start), she has no kids and no career. But she has a dream, which she has scaled down from becoming the Norwegian Crown Princess to becoming a columnist in the daily Dagbladet. This also seems to become a failure. Then one evening she involuntarily bumps into the two most popular girls from her childhood, "Pretty" Janne and "Perfect" Anna. Back then Selma had to be content with the name "Strange" Selma. But soon she discovers that things have not been going so well for the girls as she imagined, and that people tend to become much more sympathetic as the blows to their faces are distributed a littel more evenly. Together they put into effect a plan to fulfill Selma's dream. But things are definitely not working out the way they had imagined....
Director: Vibeke Idsøe
Writer: Vibeke Idsøe
Cinematography by: Pål Bugge Haagenrud
Original Music by: Bent Åserud, Kjetil Bjerkestrand, Geir Bøhren
Cast: Helén Vikstvedt (Selma), Marit Andreassen, Bernhard Arnø, Dagny Rieber Borgnes, Anders Baasmo Christiansen, Kåre Conradi, Signe Dahl, Anne Ryg (Janne), Ulrikke Hansen Døvigen (Anna), Emilie Falch, Hedda Bjordal Foss, Monica Hjelle, Nora Elisabeth Holte, Svein Roger Karlsen, Frank Kjosås, Ingvild Lindalen, Kjell Trygve Lunde, Fredrik Melbye, Jon Øigarden, Jan Gunnar Røise, Felix Rose, Bertel Roth, Christin Smith, Erik David Thiis-Evensen, Pia Tjelta, Tor Våge, Hosna Arzani
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Friday 18. 2.
Prague, Kino Atlas 18:00
Brno, Kino Art 18:45
Appelsinpiken/ The Orange Girl
Norway/Germany/Spain, 2009, drama, 76 min., czech subtitles
Georg lives with his mother Veronika in Oslo. On his eighteenth birthday, he receives a thick letter from his father, Jan Olav, which his father wrote just before he died, when Georg was only six years old. On the same day, Georg is going to the mountains, equipped with skis and telescope, in order to photograph a rare celestial phenomenon. He is ambivalent concerning his father's lether, and has repressed his memories of him. Still, he brings the letter with him. On the train to the mountains, he meets Stella, of the same age as him. In the letter, his father asks Georg a fundamental existential question: What's the point of living when we're going to die anyway, maybe even when life is at its best? Would you want to be born if you had a choice? But before Georg is allowed to answer, his father wants to tell him a story about the Orange Girl he met in 1982.
Director: Eva Dahr /Mars & Venus (2007)/
Writer: Jostein Gaarder (autor románu), Axel Helgeland
Cinematography by: Harald Gunnar Paalgard
Original Music by: Magnus Beite, Mario Schneider
Cast: Annie Dahr Nygaard, Harald Rosenstrøm, Mikkel Bratt Silset, Emilie K. Beck, Rebekka Karijord, Glenn Erland Tosterud, Johannes Piene Gundersen, Tom Eirik Solheim, Ellen E.T. Jervell, Jakob Skøyen Andersen, Hendrik Annel, Terje Skonseng Naudeer
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Sunday 20. 2.
Prague, Kino Atlas 18:00
Brno, Kino Art 18:45
Ofelas/ Pathfinder
Norway, 1987, 86 min., adventure/action/drama, czech subtitles
"Pathginder" is based on a 12th-century legend. Filled with aciton and drama, it tells the story of a young boy who, having seen his parents and little sister slaughtered by a raiding party of Tsjudes (a much feared tribe from what istoday Northern Russia) is taken prisoner and forced to act as a pathfinder for the raiders. Against all odds, the boy manages to trick his captors and lead them over a cliff to a violent death. "Pathfinder" rates a footnote in film history as it is the first feature production ever to be shot in the Sami language.
Director: Nils Gaup /Kautokeino-opprøret (2008), Tashunga (1996), Head Above Water (1993), Hakon Hakonsen (1990)/
Writer: Nils Gaup
Cinematography by: Erling Thurmann-Andersen
Original Music by: Kjetil Bjerkestrand, Marius Müller, Nils-Aslak Valkeapää
Cast: Svein Scharffenberg, Mikkel Gaup, Ingvald Guttorm, Nils Utsi, Henrik H. Buljo, Nils-Aslak Valkeapää, Helgi Skúlason, Inger Utsi, Knut Walle, John Sigurd Kristensen, Sara Marit Gaup, Anne-Marja Blind, Ellen Anne Buljo, Svein Birger Olsen, Sverre Porsanger
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Saturday 19. 2.
Prague, Kino Atlas 20:00
Brno, Kino Art 21:00
Himmelfall/ Falling Sky
Norway, 2002, 83 min., comedy/drama/family, czech subtitles (for people with hearing impairment)
"We can't save all the planets, but maybe Earth for example?"
It's three days before Christmas at Sollihøgda Psychiatric Hospital. Reidar expects to get hit in the head by a meteor. He wants to save the entire world from this disaster, but most of all he wants to save Juni. Juni is not so sure she wants to be saved, and punches anyone who touches her. Reidar refuses to give up hope, maybe a fist in the nose can also be considered a kind of caress...? They are surrounded by an impotent psychiatrist perpetually on the verge of tears, a virile taxi driver with questionable morals, a senile mother searching for herself, a desperate Burmese seaching for a residency permit, an uninsured gas station, a horny and homesick social worker - and the world's best fireworks!
Director: Gunnar Vikene
Writer: Torun Lian, Gunnar Vikene
Cinematography by: Sjur Aarthun
Original Music by: Reidar Skaar, Stein Berge Svendsen
Cast: Kristoffer Joner, Maria Bonnevie, Kim Bodnia, Hildegun Riisem, Gitte Rio Jorgensen, Endre Hellestveit, Min Min Tun, Kjersti Sandal, Jon Bleiklie Devik, Petter Width Kristiansen, Bjorn Sundquist, Janny Hoff Brekke, Ine Ahnell, Oddbjorn Hesjevoll, Marianne Nilsen, Ljudmil Nikolov, ...
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