The Talented Susanne Bier

May 13, 2011

The Danish director Susanne Bier is an interesting and very talented movie maker. As we all know, her In a Better World won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 2011. So far she has made 11 movies, the most well-known are the romantic comedy The One and Only (1999),  Brothers (2004), and [...]

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I Am Dina (DVD) – Norwegian movie

May 12, 2011

I Am Dina, based on Norwegian writer Herbjorg Wassmo’s brilliant novel Dina’s Book, is a haunting, breathtaking and engaging story about a young girl in Northern Norway during the 1860s who killed her mother in a accident when she was five years old. Her father (Bjorn Floberg) blamed her for his wife’s death, and she [...]

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Do you fear trolls? The Troll Hunter movie

May 10, 2011

The Troll Hunter is a scary, intriguing and interesting new Norwegian mockumentary. Something bad is happening in Norway, and again it seems to be those blasted trolls. So now it’s time for all good Norwegians to meet up and go hunting the buggers. Andre Ovredal’s The Troll Hunter is funny and scary, and for the [...]

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The Lake of the Damned (De dødes tjern) DVD

May 10, 2011

This is a classic Norwegian crime fiction movie, based on a novel by Norwegian author André Bjerke, writing as Bernhard Borge (the novel is not translated to English – but see De dodes tjern. The Dead Man’s Pond). It is a psychological thriller about six students that travel out into a cabin in a desolate [...]

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Commander Hamilton – DVD

May 6, 2011

Commander Hamilton is a movie based on the series of books by Swedish writer Jan Guillou about Carl Hamilton – Coq Rouge (see also the Knight Templar). This series topped the bestseller lists in all the Scandinavian countries. Commander Hamilton is an action-packed suspense thriller, starring Peter Stormare (Fargo, Nacho Libre) as the Swedish 007, [...]

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ScandiMovie news – May 2011

May 3, 2011

Two Scandinavian movies have received awards at the 10th Tribeca film festival (a festival co-founded by Robert de Niro). On Friday April 28th, New York Times reported that the award for best screenplay went to Norwegian Jannicke Systad Jacobsen: The award for best screenplay went to Jannicke Systad Jabobsen for “Turn Me On, Goddammit,” a [...]

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Kitchen Stories (DVD)

May 2, 2011

Some tales are just strange. Some are strange but very entertaining. This one is strange, very entertaining and exceedingly funny in a quiet charming way. The story begins with a group of Swedish researchers (are they working for IKEA?), on a special mission: They are sent to the cold and frozen wilderness of Norway to [...]

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The Hypnotist will be directed by Lasse Hallstrom

April 26, 2011

More good news for fans of great Scandinavian crime fiction! The Hypnotist – the long-awaited, bestselling Swedish crime fiction thriller by Lars Kepler – will be filmed. And Lasse Hellström (Dear John, Chocolat, My Life as a Dog, ABBA The Movie, and many more) will return to the Swedish cinema after more than two decades [...]

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