You, the Living
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You, the Living is a 2007
Swedish
film written and directed by Roy Andersson
. The film is an exploration on the "grandeur of existence," centered around the lives of an overweight woman, a disgruntled psychiatrist, a heartbroken groupie, a carpenter, a business consultant, an elementary school teacher with emotional issues and her rug-selling husband, among others. The basis for the film is an Old Norse
proverb, "Man is man's delight," taken from the Poetic Edda
poem Hávamál
. The title comes from a quote in Roman Elegies by Goethe
, which appears as a title card in the beginning of the film: "Be pleased then, you, the living, in your delightfully warmed bed, before Lethe
's ice-cold wave will lick your escaping foot."
The film consists of a fluent succession of exactly 50 short sketch
es, most of them with a tragicomic
undertone. The cast is non-professional and alienating techniques such as presenting the characters in grim make-up and having them talk directly to the camera are extensively used. The financing was troublesome and the shooting took three years to finish. The film won the Silver Hugo for Best Direction at the 2007 Chicago International Film Festival
and has received positive reviews. It is the second film of an unfinished trilogy, Songs from the Second Floor
being the first.
The film makes repeated use of distinctive cinematic techniques. One of these is dreams and how they reflect the fears, feelings and desires of the characters. Another is the use of music, in conjunction with dialogues and editing, both as a track and performed on camera. The film starts with a monologue, which ends up being sung to dixieland
jazz music being played by lone musicians, each in a different room in a different part of the city.
The stories in the film include:
The film ends with a montage of different characters who suddenly stop in the middle of everyday chores to look up into the sky. Dixieland music is once again played as the camera is put on the wing of an airplane. A large formation of B-52 bomber planes appear in front of the camera as they fly menacingly in over a large city.
, Roy Andersson accused the responsible consultant of nepotism
, after the consultant instead gave the money to a film directed by his own father-in-law. That film eventually ended up receiving poor reviews. In the end, with eighteen organizations from six different countries involved in financing the production, the total budget landed on slightly over five million euros.
For the casting, Andersson or an assistant approached people on the street and asked them to participate. Amateurs were preferred to professionals, both because the greater selection and the problem of asking renowned actors to take small parts with just a few lines. The sole exception was Bengt C.W. Carlsson, who is a professional actor, in the role of the CEO. Actors from Andersson's previous feature films and commercials were also reused.
The film was shot in Roy Andersson's own studio in Östermalm, Stockholm
. The filming of the scenes took three years to finish. "It is not the shooting itself that takes time, but the work on creating the environments. We built almost all the sets in the studio, even those that took place outdoors. Most of the time we started from Roy's sketches," said Johan Carlsson, production manager. There is one single scene that wasn't shot in studio, featuring a bus shelter in heavy rain. It had to be shot outdoors because of the huge amount of running water. Nothing in the film was made with computer-generated imagery
. The city seen from above in the final shot was a large model built solely for that scene.
The colour scape was designed to not leave too much contrast, which the director believed would create more intensity. Lighting was arranged to leave no shadows: "I want light where people can’t hide in – light without mercy." Andersson is famous for his many takes of each scene, although this time he claimed it went smoother than usual: "max. 40-50 takes and sometimes under ten!"
member Benny Andersson
, who composed the theme for the director's previous film, Songs from the Second Floor
. Benny Andersson was however occupied with the Mamma Mia!
film adaption, and declined. Some of Benny Andersson's music from Songs from the Second Floor was still rearranged and used. Much of the music is played as march music
and traditional jazz
. "I have played this type of music myself and thought it was about time it got featured in a film. Moreover, I am fascinated by the unsuspecting music that existed in the 1930s when Nazism emerged," Andersson explained in an interview.
One melody featured on several occasions is "En liten vit kanin," in English "A Little White Rabbit," a song that was recorded by Edvard Persson
in the 1930s and became very popular in Sweden. Another song used is the religious "Jag har hört om en stad ovan molnen," literally "I Have Heard of a City above the Clouds," originally based on a Russian folk melody and often played at funerals in Sweden. This song was originally planned to be used during the ending sequence, but eventually Andersson decided to use a more energizing jazz tune instead: "I want the audience to leave the theater with a little more lust for opposition." Other songs include the German university song "O alte Burschenherrlichkeit" with Swedish lyrics by August Lindh, and the original song "Motorcykel," performed by Stockholm Classic Jazz Band and with lyrics by Roy Andersson.
, as part of the Un Certain Regard
selection. It subsequently played at several other film festivals, including Toronto International Film Festival
on 7 September 2007 and Chicago International Film Festival
on 8 October 2007, where Roy Andersson was awarded The Silver Hugo for Direction "for his extraordinary, quirky vision and humor."
On 21 September 2007, the film was released in Sweden. It was sold to 50 countries, including the United Kingdom
where it was released on 28 March 2008. On 29 July 2009 it premiered in the United States, limited to Film Forum
in New York City
.
called Andersson "the black diamond of comedy in Swedish film life." Further, he compared the casting in the film to Vittorio De Sica
's Bicycle Thieves
, and the usage of the cast to "a fastidious Samuel Beckett
."
The international response was also positive. it has a 100% "fresh" rating and an average score of 7.7/10 based on 28 reviews at Rotten Tomatoes
. Peter Bradshaw
at The Guardian
gave it 4 out of 5 and called it "the work of a real original – I might almost say a genius. He is radically different from anyone else, with a technical, compositional rigour that puts other movie-makers and visual artists to shame. And he really is funny." US critic Justin Chang was mainly positive in an early Cannes review for Variety
, although he still found that "a certain repetitiveness does eventually seep into the structure, and one could complain that the individual scenes don't ultimately build to anything (or that the arrangement of scenes is fairly arbitrary)."
at the 80th Academy Awards
, but wasn't selected as a nominee.
2007 in film
This is a list of major films released in 2007.-Top grossing films:Please note that following the tradition of the English-language film industry, these are the top grossing films that were first released in the USA in 2007...
Swedish
Cinema of Sweden
Swedish cinema is known as producing many critically acclaimed movies, and during the 20th century was the most prominent of Scandinavia. This is largely due to the popularity and prominence of the directors Ingmar Bergman, Victor Sjöström, and more recently Lasse Hallström and Lukas...
film written and directed by Roy Andersson
Roy Andersson
Roy Andersson is a Swedish film director, best known for his films A Swedish Love Story and Songs from the Second Floor. More than any other, Songs from the Second Floor succeeded in cementing his personal style — a style characterized by long takes, absurdist comedy, stiff caricaturing of...
. The film is an exploration on the "grandeur of existence," centered around the lives of an overweight woman, a disgruntled psychiatrist, a heartbroken groupie, a carpenter, a business consultant, an elementary school teacher with emotional issues and her rug-selling husband, among others. The basis for the film is an Old Norse
Old Norse
Old Norse is a North Germanic language that was spoken by inhabitants of Scandinavia and inhabitants of their overseas settlements during the Viking Age, until about 1300....
proverb, "Man is man's delight," taken from the Poetic Edda
Poetic Edda
The Poetic Edda is a collection of Old Norse poems primarily preserved in the Icelandic mediaeval manuscript Codex Regius. Along with Snorri Sturluson's Prose Edda, the Poetic Edda is the most important extant source on Norse mythology and Germanic heroic legends, and from the early 19th century...
poem Hávamál
Hávamál
Hávamál is presented as a single poem in the Poetic Edda, a collection of Old Norse poems from the Viking age. The poem, itself a combination of different poems, is largely gnomic, presenting advice for living, proper conduct and wisdom....
. The title comes from a quote in Roman Elegies by Goethe
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was a German writer, pictorial artist, biologist, theoretical physicist, and polymath. He is considered the supreme genius of modern German literature. His works span the fields of poetry, drama, prose, philosophy, and science. His Faust has been called the greatest long...
, which appears as a title card in the beginning of the film: "Be pleased then, you, the living, in your delightfully warmed bed, before Lethe
Lethe
In Greek mythology, Lethe was one of the five rivers of Hades. Also known as the Ameles potamos , the Lethe flowed around the cave of Hypnos and through the Underworld, where all those who drank from it experienced complete forgetfulness...
's ice-cold wave will lick your escaping foot."
The film consists of a fluent succession of exactly 50 short sketch
Sketch comedy
A sketch comedy consists of a series of short comedy scenes or vignettes, called "sketches," commonly between one and ten minutes long. Such sketches are performed by a group of comic actors or comedians, either on stage or through an audio and/or visual medium such as broadcasting...
es, most of them with a tragicomic
Tragicomedy
Tragicomedy is fictional work that blends aspects of the genres of tragedy and comedy. In English literature, from Shakespeare's time to the nineteenth century, tragicomedy referred to a serious play with either a happy ending or enough jokes throughout the play to lighten the mood.-Classical...
undertone. The cast is non-professional and alienating techniques such as presenting the characters in grim make-up and having them talk directly to the camera are extensively used. The financing was troublesome and the shooting took three years to finish. The film won the Silver Hugo for Best Direction at the 2007 Chicago International Film Festival
Chicago International Film Festival
The Chicago International Film Festival is an annual film festival held every fall. Founded in 1964, it is the longest-running competitive film festival in North America....
and has received positive reviews. It is the second film of an unfinished trilogy, Songs from the Second Floor
Songs from the Second Floor
Songs from the Second Floor is a 2000 Swedish film written and directed by Roy Andersson. It presents a series of disconnected vignettes that together interrogate aspects of modern life. The film uses many quotations from the work of the Peruvian poet César Vallejo as a recurring motif...
being the first.
Plot
There is no central plot, but some of the vignettes connect loosely. All the stories show the essential humanity of the characters and address themes of life, existence and happiness.The film makes repeated use of distinctive cinematic techniques. One of these is dreams and how they reflect the fears, feelings and desires of the characters. Another is the use of music, in conjunction with dialogues and editing, both as a track and performed on camera. The film starts with a monologue, which ends up being sung to dixieland
Dixieland
Dixieland music, sometimes referred to as Hot jazz, Early Jazz or New Orleans jazz, is a style of jazz music which developed in New Orleans at the start of the 20th century, and was spread to Chicago and New York City by New Orleans bands in the 1910s.Well-known jazz standard songs from the...
jazz music being played by lone musicians, each in a different room in a different part of the city.
The stories in the film include:
- An overweight woman (Elisabeth Helander) laments her life while being completely self-absorbed. Her equally overweight boyfriend (Jugge NohallJugge NohallJugge Nohall, born Mark Erik Jörgen Nohall, September 6, 1964 in Stockholm, is a Swedish singer and artist, who has written a song for the Swedish national final of the Eurovision song contest, participated in two reality shows on Swedish television and worked as a radio talkshow host.- References :...
) tries to comfort her and invites her to dinner. The woman later rejects an admirer in trenchcoat (Jan Wikbladh) who tries to give her a bouquet of flowers. - A carpenter (Leif Larsson) has a dream in which he is condemned and executed for breaking a 200 year old china set while trying to perform the tablecloth trick.
- A pickpocket (Waldemar Nowak) steals the wallet of a high roller (Gunnar Ivarsson) at a fine restaurant before he has paid the bill.
- A psychiatrist (Håkan Angser) has lost faith in people's ability to be happy because of their selfishness. Nowadays he only prescribes pills.
- A business consultant (Olle Olson) gets his hair butchered by an upset barber (Kemal Sener) before attending a meeting where the CEO (Bengt C. W. Carlsson) dies of a heart attack.
- A sousaphone player (Björn Englund) makes money by playing in funerals, including the one of the CEO.
- A girl (Jessika Lundberg) finds her musical idol, Micke Larsson (Eric BäckmanDeathstarsDeathstars is a Swedish band from Stockholm that perform industrial and gothic metal. Formed in 2000, the group are noted for their dark horror-themed lyrics, pessimistic and misanthropic social commentary, distinctive trademark face paint, dark stage uniforms and physical appearances that...
) in a tavern. He invites her and her friend for a drink, but afterwards he gives her false directions for a band rehearsal. Later she retells a dream she had about marrying him and going away together, with people around cheering for them. - A husband and wife (Pär Fredriksson and Jessica Nilsson) allow a fight they had to affect their respective jobs adversely.
The film ends with a montage of different characters who suddenly stop in the middle of everyday chores to look up into the sky. Dixieland music is once again played as the camera is put on the wing of an airplane. A large formation of B-52 bomber planes appear in front of the camera as they fly menacingly in over a large city.
Production
From very early on there was trouble with the financing. Andersson had to make regular visits to a pawn-shop, and several times the team paused the production to make commercials, using the proceeds for the film. After being refused funding from the Swedish Film InstituteSwedish Film Institute
The Swedish Film Institute was founded in 1963 to support and develop the Swedish film industry. The institute is housed in the Filmhuset building located in Gärdet, Östermalm in Stockholm...
, Roy Andersson accused the responsible consultant of nepotism
Nepotism
Nepotism is favoritism granted to relatives regardless of merit. The word nepotism is from the Latin word nepos, nepotis , from which modern Romanian nepot and Italian nipote, "nephew" or "grandchild" are also descended....
, after the consultant instead gave the money to a film directed by his own father-in-law. That film eventually ended up receiving poor reviews. In the end, with eighteen organizations from six different countries involved in financing the production, the total budget landed on slightly over five million euros.
For the casting, Andersson or an assistant approached people on the street and asked them to participate. Amateurs were preferred to professionals, both because the greater selection and the problem of asking renowned actors to take small parts with just a few lines. The sole exception was Bengt C.W. Carlsson, who is a professional actor, in the role of the CEO. Actors from Andersson's previous feature films and commercials were also reused.
The film was shot in Roy Andersson's own studio in Östermalm, Stockholm
Stockholm
Stockholm is the capital and the largest city of Sweden and constitutes the most populated urban area in Scandinavia. Stockholm is the most populous city in Sweden, with a population of 851,155 in the municipality , 1.37 million in the urban area , and around 2.1 million in the metropolitan area...
. The filming of the scenes took three years to finish. "It is not the shooting itself that takes time, but the work on creating the environments. We built almost all the sets in the studio, even those that took place outdoors. Most of the time we started from Roy's sketches," said Johan Carlsson, production manager. There is one single scene that wasn't shot in studio, featuring a bus shelter in heavy rain. It had to be shot outdoors because of the huge amount of running water. Nothing in the film was made with computer-generated imagery
Computer-generated imagery
Computer-generated imagery is the application of the field of computer graphics or, more specifically, 3D computer graphics to special effects in art, video games, films, television programs, commercials, simulators and simulation generally, and printed media...
. The city seen from above in the final shot was a large model built solely for that scene.
The colour scape was designed to not leave too much contrast, which the director believed would create more intensity. Lighting was arranged to leave no shadows: "I want light where people can’t hide in – light without mercy." Andersson is famous for his many takes of each scene, although this time he claimed it went smoother than usual: "max. 40-50 takes and sometimes under ten!"
Soundtrack
For the musical score, Roy Andersson originally approached former ABBAABBA
ABBA was a Swedish pop group formed in Stockholm in 1970 which consisted of Anni-Frid Lyngstad, Björn Ulvaeus, Benny Andersson and Agnetha Fältskog...
member Benny Andersson
Benny Andersson
Göran Bror "Benny" Andersson is a Swedish musician, composer, a former member of the Swedish musical group ABBA , and co-composer of the musicals Chess, Kristina från Duvemåla, and Mamma Mia!...
, who composed the theme for the director's previous film, Songs from the Second Floor
Songs from the Second Floor
Songs from the Second Floor is a 2000 Swedish film written and directed by Roy Andersson. It presents a series of disconnected vignettes that together interrogate aspects of modern life. The film uses many quotations from the work of the Peruvian poet César Vallejo as a recurring motif...
. Benny Andersson was however occupied with the Mamma Mia!
Mamma Mia! (film)
Mamma Mia! is a 2008 musical/romantic comedy film adapted from the 1999 West End/2001 Broadway musical of the same name, based on the songs of successful pop group ABBA, with additional music composed by ABBA member Benny Andersson...
film adaption, and declined. Some of Benny Andersson's music from Songs from the Second Floor was still rearranged and used. Much of the music is played as march music
March (music)
A march, as a musical genre, is a piece of music with a strong regular rhythm which in origin was expressly written for marching to and most frequently performed by a military band. In mood, marches range from the moving death march in Wagner's Götterdämmerung to the brisk military marches of John...
and traditional jazz
Trad jazz
Trad jazz - short for "traditional jazz" - refers to the Dixieland and Ragtime jazz styles of the early 20th century in contrast to any more modern style....
. "I have played this type of music myself and thought it was about time it got featured in a film. Moreover, I am fascinated by the unsuspecting music that existed in the 1930s when Nazism emerged," Andersson explained in an interview.
One melody featured on several occasions is "En liten vit kanin," in English "A Little White Rabbit," a song that was recorded by Edvard Persson
Edvard Persson
Edvard Persson was a Swedish actor and singer.He got his first role in the 1923 silent film Studenterna på Tröstehult. Overall, Persson made 45 feature films, among those were South of the Highway and Kalle på Spången...
in the 1930s and became very popular in Sweden. Another song used is the religious "Jag har hört om en stad ovan molnen," literally "I Have Heard of a City above the Clouds," originally based on a Russian folk melody and often played at funerals in Sweden. This song was originally planned to be used during the ending sequence, but eventually Andersson decided to use a more energizing jazz tune instead: "I want the audience to leave the theater with a little more lust for opposition." Other songs include the German university song "O alte Burschenherrlichkeit" with Swedish lyrics by August Lindh, and the original song "Motorcykel," performed by Stockholm Classic Jazz Band and with lyrics by Roy Andersson.
Release
You, the Living premiered at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival2007 Cannes Film Festival
The 2007 Cannes Film Festival, the sixtieth, ran from 16 to 27 May 2007. Wong Kar-wai's My Blueberry Nights opened the festival, and Denys Arcand's The Age of Ignorance closed...
, as part of the Un Certain Regard
Un Certain Regard
Un Certain Regard is a section of the Cannes Film Festival's Official Selection. It is run at the Salle Debussy, parallel to the competition for the Palme d'Or.This section was introduced in 1978 by Gilles Jacob...
selection. It subsequently played at several other film festivals, including Toronto International Film Festival
Toronto International Film Festival
The Toronto International Film Festival is a publicly-attended film festival held each September in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. In 2010, 339 films from 59 countries were screened at 32 screens in downtown Toronto venues...
on 7 September 2007 and Chicago International Film Festival
Chicago International Film Festival
The Chicago International Film Festival is an annual film festival held every fall. Founded in 1964, it is the longest-running competitive film festival in North America....
on 8 October 2007, where Roy Andersson was awarded The Silver Hugo for Direction "for his extraordinary, quirky vision and humor."
On 21 September 2007, the film was released in Sweden. It was sold to 50 countries, including the United Kingdom
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
where it was released on 28 March 2008. On 29 July 2009 it premiered in the United States, limited to Film Forum
Film Forum
Film Forum is a nonprofit movie theater located at 209 West Houston Street in New York City. It began in 1970 as an alternative screening space for independent films, with 50 folding chairs, one projector and a US$19,000 annual budget. Karen Cooper became director in 1972 and under her leadership,...
in New York City
New York City
New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...
.
Critical reception
The film was well received by Swedish critics, with an aggregate rating of 4.1 out of 5 based on 22 reviews at Kritiker.se, which made it by far the highest rated Swedish film of 2007. Carl-Johan Malmberg at Svenska DagbladetSvenska Dagbladet
Svenska Dagbladet is a daily newspaper in Sweden. The first issue appeared on 18 December 1884. Svenska Dagbladet is published in Stockholm and provides coverage of national and international news as well as local coverage of the Greater Stockholm region...
called Andersson "the black diamond of comedy in Swedish film life." Further, he compared the casting in the film to Vittorio De Sica
Vittorio de Sica
Vittorio De Sica was an Italian director and actor, a leading figure in the neorealist movement....
's Bicycle Thieves
Bicycle Thieves
Bicycle Thieves , also known as The Bicycle Thief, is a 1948 Italian neorealist film directed by Vittorio De Sica. It tells the story of a poor man searching the streets of Rome for his stolen bicycle, which he needs to be able to work. The film is based on the novel of the same name by Luigi...
, and the usage of the cast to "a fastidious Samuel Beckett
Samuel Beckett
Samuel Barclay Beckett was an Irish avant-garde novelist, playwright, theatre director, and poet. He wrote both in English and French. His work offers a bleak, tragicomic outlook on human nature, often coupled with black comedy and gallows humour.Beckett is widely regarded as among the most...
."
The international response was also positive. it has a 100% "fresh" rating and an average score of 7.7/10 based on 28 reviews at Rotten Tomatoes
Rotten Tomatoes
Rotten Tomatoes is a website devoted to reviews, information, and news of films—widely known as a film review aggregator. Its name derives from the cliché of audiences throwing tomatoes and other vegetables at a poor stage performance...
. Peter Bradshaw
Peter Bradshaw
Peter Bradshaw is a British writer and film critic. He was educated at Cambridge University, where he was President of Footlights.Bradshaw is a film critic for The Guardian...
at The Guardian
The Guardian
The Guardian, formerly known as The Manchester Guardian , is a British national daily newspaper in the Berliner format...
gave it 4 out of 5 and called it "the work of a real original – I might almost say a genius. He is radically different from anyone else, with a technical, compositional rigour that puts other movie-makers and visual artists to shame. And he really is funny." US critic Justin Chang was mainly positive in an early Cannes review for Variety
Variety (magazine)
Variety is an American weekly entertainment-trade magazine founded in New York City, New York, in 1905 by Sime Silverman. With the rise of the importance of the motion-picture industry, Daily Variety, a daily edition based in Los Angeles, California, was founded by Silverman in 1933. In 1998, the...
, although he still found that "a certain repetitiveness does eventually seep into the structure, and one could complain that the individual scenes don't ultimately build to anything (or that the arrangement of scenes is fairly arbitrary)."
Awards and nominations
In addition to the awards and nominations, You, the Living was also Sweden's submission for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language FilmAcademy Award for Best Foreign Language Film
The Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film is one of the Academy Awards of Merit, popularly known as the Oscars, handed out annually by the U.S.-based Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences...
at the 80th Academy Awards
80th Academy Awards
The 80th Academy Awards ceremony honored the best films in 2007 and was broadcast from the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, California on ABC beginning at 5:30 p.m. PST/8:30 p.m. EST, February 24, 2008 . During the ceremony, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences presented Academy Awards in 24...
, but wasn't selected as a nominee.
| Award | Category | Name | Outcome |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chicago International Film Festival Chicago International Film Festival The Chicago International Film Festival is an annual film festival held every fall. Founded in 1964, it is the longest-running competitive film festival in North America.... |
Best Director | Roy Andersson | |
| European Film Awards European Film Awards 2007 The 20th Annual European Film Awards took place on December 1, 2007 in Berlin, Germany-European Film of the Year: 4 luni, 3 săptămâni şi 2 zile by Cristian Mungiu/ Auf Der Anderen Seite by Fatih Akin The Last King of Scotland by Kevin Macdonald La Môme by Olivier Dahan Persepolis by Marjane... |
Best Director | Roy Andersson | |
| Fantasporto Fantasporto Fantasporto, also known as Fantas, is an international film festival, annually organized since 1981 in Porto, Portugal. Giving screen space to commercial feature films, auteur films and experimental projects from all over the world, Fantasporto has created enthusiastic audiences, ranging from... |
Directors' Week Award - Best Director | Roy Andersson | |
| Ghent Film Festival | Georges Delerue Prize | Benny Andersson | |
| Grand Prix | |||
| Gothenburg Film Festival Gothenburg Film Festival Göteborg International Film Festival is an annual film festival in Gothenburg, Sweden, launched in 1979. The first year the festival showed 17 films on 3 screens, and had 3 000 visitors. Today, the film festival is the biggest in Scandinavia and takes place 10 days every year between January and... |
Audience Award | Roy Andersson | |
| 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,... s |
Best Film | Pernilla Sandström | |
| Best Director | Roy Andersson | ||
| Best Screenplay | Roy Andersson | ||
| Best Cinematography | Gustav Danielsson | ||
| Nordic Council Nordic Council The Nordic Council is a geo-political, inter-parliamentary forum for co-operation between the Nordic countries. It was established following World War II and its first concrete result was the introduction in 1952 of a common labour market and free movement across borders without passports for the... |
The Nordic Council Film Prize The Nordic Council Film Prize The Nordic Council Film Prize is an annual film prize administered by the Nordic Council. The first award was handed outin 2002 to celebrate the Nordic Council's 50th anniversary. Since 2005 the prize has been annual. One winner is chosen from submissions from the five Nordic countries. In 2008,... |
Roy Andersson, Pernilla Sandström |
External links
- Official website
- "More real than reality" - clip from behind the scenes at YoutubeYouTubeYouTube is a video-sharing website, created by three former PayPal employees in February 2005, on which users can upload, view and share videos....