Kitchen Stories
- Joachim Calmeyer: Isak Bjørvik
- Tomas Norstrom: Folke Nilsson
- Bjørn Floberg: Grant
- Pure Brynolfsson: Malmberg
- Sverre Anker Ousdal: Dr. Benjaminsen
- Leif Andrée: Dr. Ljungberg
- Sverre Anker Ousdal: Dr. Jack Zac. Benjaminsen
- Gard B. Eidsvold: Baker (as Gard Eidsvold )
- Lennart Jähkel: Green
- Trond Brænne: Mayor
- Bjørn Jenseg: caretaker
- January Gunnar Roise: Caretaker Assistant
- Karin Lunden: Swedish escort lady
- Päivi Laakso: Finnish escort lady
Kitchen Stories ( Original title: Salmer fra Kjøkkenet ) is a comedy film by Norwegian director Bent Hamer 's 2003 The director wrote together with Jörgen Bergmark also wrote the screenplay and produced the film. . The main roles were played by Joachim Calmeyer and Tomas Norstrom.
Action
Norway in the 1950s. The Swedish Research Institute for Home and household has already been successfully tested in our country the behavior of housewives in their kitchens and was able to optimize the arrangement of household appliances. Now it comes across in the equipped with right-hand traffic Norway to study the habits of the local bachelors. Each participant will be assigned an observer who henceforth, equipped with high seat and notepad, takes place in the kitchen of the subjects to begin with the records can. Personal contact, speaking and helpful in their daily work is strictly prohibited, so as not to distort the research results.
But this tense situation examined their own valves; the roles are blurred. The end, far from scientific distance, shows two bizarre men who eventually become friends.
Publications
Its premiere the film on January 15, 2003 at the Tromsø Internasjonale Film Festival. Two days later he came in Norwegian cinemas, where he saw 85 182 visitors. Between September 2003 and May 2005 launched Kitchen Stories in several other European countries and was seen at numerous film festivals around the world. The film was a box office earnings of 2.61 million U.S. dollars. 351 235 U.S. dollars which he played in the U.S., where the film on 10 February 2004 started off in theaters.
The German theatrical release was the 5th February 2004. In German-speaking Switzerland, he ran on 4 March 2004 in Austria on January 6, 2005. In October 2004, the film was released on DVD in Germany.
On 18 December 2004, the eponymous play by Hans Petter Blad was premiered at the Deutsches Theater Göttingen. The spectacle will be routed from Theaterverlag Whale Songs, Hamburg.
Reception
"From the surreal satire of social control gradually a gentle study of men's loneliness and from this the beginning of a beautiful friendship grows. "
"In his Norwegian Foreign Language Film Oscar - Post writer-director Bent Hamer tells a simple story of loneliness and friendship, individual differences and universal similarities. Implemented, full of warmth and sympathy, the unusual buddy movie enthusiasts with its main actors Joachim Calmeyer and Tomas Norstrom international festival juries and visitors. Friends of the oblique humor will entertain you in this wise men comedy very well. "
Awards
The film won the Amanda Award, a Norwegian film award, which is awarded annually on the August held Norwegian International Film Festival in Haugesund, for Best film. He was able to prevail against, among others Pål oies Horror Villmarksenter.
In the Nordic Film Days Lübeck in 2003, the film won the Baltic Film Prize. On the Flanders International Film Festival Kitchen Stories received an award in the category Best Screenplay and was nominated for the Golden Trail, the main prize of the festival. On the Copenhagen International Film Festival Bent Hamer won the Golden Swan for Best Director. In the same category, he was honored at the São Paulo International Film Festival. On the Tromsø Internasjonale Film Festival in Norway, the film won the FIPRESCI Prize.
Norway sent the film as a candidate for an Oscar nomination in the category Best Foreign Language Film. The film was nominated but not yet awarded.