Tale, 17, leads a theatre group of teenagers, who are planning to set up a play by the famous Norwegian writer Jon Fosse. A professional actor, in the middle of a life crisis, agrees to direct them. With certain conditions. He decides to cast the local hero, a great soccer player and a fucking moron, as the main male actor. The group soon discovers that the director’s ambitions make the teenagers lives a living hell.
About the film
Details
- Running time
- 1 hr. 33 min.
- Country, year
- Norway, 2014
- Genre
- Drama, Comedy
- Language
- Norwegian
- Subtitles
- Lithuanian, English
- Age rating
- N/A
Credits
- Director
- Stian Kristiansen
- Screenplay
- Stian Kristiansen, Kamilla Krogsveen
- Cinematography
- Trond Tønder
- Music
- Jan Frode Johannessen
- Cast
- Eili Harboe, Øyvind Larsen Runestad, Kristoffer Joner, Johanna Knudsen Rostad, Rolf Kristian Larsen
- More information
- www.imdb.com
Festivals and awards
- Grand Prix for Best Feature
- unknown - 1
- unknown - 1
Director
Stian Kristiansen
Stian Kristiansen, born in 1972, studied directing and television production at Stavanger University College before he was accepted for the directing programme at the Norwegian Film School, graduating in 2006. In his younger years Kristiansen worked as an actor at Rogaland Theater for several years and also acted in a few films. He directed several short films, such as Blindsight (2000), Kiss Me God Damn It! (2002), Bad Investment (2004) and Hidden (2006), before he made his feature film debut with the youth drama The Man Who Loved Yngve in 2008, which was a huge box office success and won many awards. He directed the sequel to it, I Travel Alone, in 2011. Both films were screened in Scanorama.
