Sound of Noise is a 2010 Swedish-French comedy-crime film written and directed by Ola Simonsson and Johannes Stjärne Nilsson. It tells the story of a group of musicians who illegally perform music on objects in the various institutions of a city. The film is a follow-up to the 2001 short film Music for One Apartment and Six Drummers, which was made by the same people and followed the same basic concept. The title comes from the Italian futurist Luigi Russolo

Luigi Russolo

Luigi Russolo was an Italian Futurist painter and composer, and the author of the manifesto The Art of Noises . He is often regarded as one of the first noise music experimental composers with his performances of "noise concerts" in 1913-14 and then again after World War I, notably in Paris in 1921...

's 1913 manifesto The Art of Noises

The Art of Noises

The Art of Noises is a Futurist manifesto, written by Luigi Russolo in a 1913 letter to friend and Futurist composer Francesco Balilla Pratella...

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Plot

Anarchistic musicians play in a hospital with a patient as drum, in a bank while shredding banknotes, hanging in power cables, and on the street with road construction machines as instruments.

Cast

• Bengt Nilsson as Amadeus Warnebring
• Sanna Persson
  Sanna Persson
  Sanna Persson , born August 18, 1974, is a Swedish comedian and actor.Sanna Persson began her career as a comedian in a Lund student comedy ensemble...
  
   as Sanna Persson
• Magnus Börjeson as Magnus
• Marcus Haraldson Boij as Marcus
• Fredrik Myhr as Myran
• Anders Vestergård as Anders
• Johannes Björk as Johannes
• Sven Ahlström as Oscar Warnebring
• Ralph Carlsson as Hagman
• Paula McManus as Colette
• Peter Schildt as police commissioner
• Pelle Öhlund as Sanchez
• Dag Malmberg as Levander
• Björn Granath
  Björn Granath
  Björn Gösta Tryggve Granath is a Swedish actor.Granath was born in Örgryte, Gothenburg, Sweden. He has starred in a broad range of films from comedies to dramas. He was active as an actor and director on the Royal Dramatic Theatre in Stockholm between the years 1987-2007...
  
   as hospital director
• Anders Jansson as Bosse

Production

The music was composed for the film by Magnus Börjeson while the story was written. Sound of Noise was initiated by BLISS from France. The film is a coproduction between BLISS and Dfm fiktion. It received ten million kronor

Swedish krona

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 from the Swedish Film Institute

Swedish Film Institute

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. The film was shot in CinemaScope

CinemaScope

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 and filming took place in Malmö

Malmö

Malmö , in the southernmost province of Scania, is the third most populous city in Sweden, after Stockholm and Gothenburg.Malmö is the seat of Malmö Municipality and the capital of Skåne County...

 from 28 July to 1 October 2008.

Release

The film premiered on 18 May 2010 in the International Critic's Week

International Critic's Week

The International Critics' Week , founded in 1962 and organized by the French Syndicate of Cinema Critics, is the oldest parallel competitive section of the Cannes Film Festival. It showcases first and second feature films by directors from all over the world, and has remained true to its tradition...

 of the 63rd Cannes Film Festival

2010 Cannes Film Festival

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. It will be released in Sweden on 25 December through Nordisk Film

Nordisk Film

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. Wild Bunch Distribution

Wild Bunch (film company)

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 released it in France on the 29th of December 2010.

Accolades

Sound of Noise received the Young Critics Award and the Grand Rail d'Or at the International Critic's Week. As the festival run continued, it won the prize for Best Fantastic Film at Fantastic Fest

Fantastic Fest

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 in Austin. It won the Free Spirit Award and the Audience Award at the 2010 Warsaw International Film Festival

Warsaw International Film Festival

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. At the Molodist International Film Festival in Kiev, the film received both the award for Best Full-length Film and the Audience Prize. It won a Best Achievement Guldbagge Award

Guldbagge Award

The Guldbagge Award is an official Swedish film award awarded annually since 1964 by the Swedish Film Institute.-Etymology:Guldbagge is the Swedish name for Cetonia aurata, a beetle also known as rose chafer. The name of the award could also be interpreted as a play on the Swedish word skalbagge,...

for "a virtuous mergence of sound and music".