Hawaii, Oslo
Streaming video - 2004
On the hottest day of the year in Oslo, paths cross for a handful of desperate people.. Frode and Milla have their first child but soon learn that he will not live long without an expensive operation which they cannot afford. Bobbie-Pop is a faded singer who tries to commit suicide. Leon is an institutionalized mental patient who hopes to keep a 10-year- old date on his birthday with his teenage sweetheart. Leon's brother, Trygve, gets a weekend leave from prison to be with Leon on his birthday but plans to use the furlough to escape. Overseeing Leon and protecting him is his guardian angel Vidar -- Leon's best buddy at the institution -- who sees things no one else can see, and who may be able to save everyone, except himself.. W...inner of Best Film and Best Screenplay at the Norwegian Amanda Awards. "It deserves all the praise it can get...its performances are uniformly authentic and compelling." – Doug Cummings, FilmJourney.org. "The film is real emotion that comes through the screen into your soul." – C. Dempsey, cinephelia.com
- Subjects
- Genres
- Feature films
- Published
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[San Francisco, California, USA] :
Film Movement
2004.
2018. - Language
- English
- Online Access
- A Kanopy streaming video
Cover Image - Item Description
- Title from title frames.
Film
In Process Record. - Physical Description
- 1 online resource (streaming video file) (121 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
- Playing Time
- 02:00:45
- Format
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- Access
- AVAILABLE FOR USE ONLY BY IOWA CITY AND RESIDENTS OF THE CONTRACTING GOVERNMENTS OF JOHNSON COUNTY, UNIVERSITY HEIGHTS, HILLS, AND LONE TREE (IA).
