Norsknett

Norske filmer

I Norsk 111 i dag skal vi snakke om filmer i Norge.  Her er trailere til to nye norske filmer:  "Max Manus" som har premiere 19. desember og "Kurt blir grusom" som hadde premiere 31. oktober.

Norwegian Film Awards

Below is a list of the winners of the Norwegian film awards that were given out tonight in Haugesund as part of the Norwegian Film Festival.  The big winners were "Kautokeino-opprøret" with 5 awards and "Mannen som elsket Yngve" with 4.  Read the full article from NRK or view the photo series.

The trailers for both of these films are also online in the quicktime video format.  Click on "liten (little) / medium / stor (large) / fullskjerm (full-screen).  The trailers are excellent, but be patient since they take several seconds to load.

Kautokeino-opprøret: Norwegian site (Filmweb) / trailer / photos
Mannen som elsket Yngve: Norwegian site (Filmweb) / trailer / photos

The film awards are called "amandapriser, and according to the Film Festival website, are named for a woman described in the song "Amanda fra Haugesund."  The real history of Amanda is apparently unclear, but she supposedly lived in Haugesund during the 1920s and served drinks to the fishermen.

Amandaprisene 2008

Beste norske kinofilm: Mannen som elsket Yngve, produsent Yngve Sæther, Motlys

Beste barne- og ungdomsfilm: Mannen som elsket Yngve, regi Stian Kristiansen

Folkets Amanda: Kautokeino-opprøret, regi Nils Gaup

Årets utenlandske kinofilm: There Will Be Blood, regi Paul Thomas Anderson, distributør Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures

Beste regi: Stian Kristiansen, Mannen som elsket Yngve

Beste kvinnelige skuespiller: Anni-Kristiina Juuso, Kautokeino-opprøret

Beste mannlige skuespiller: Trond Espen Seim, Varg Veum - Falne engler

Beste kvinnelige birolle: Ane Dahl Torp, Lønsj

Beste mannlige birolle: Espen Skjønberg, O'Horten

Beste filmmanus: Thomas Moldestad og Siv Rajendram Eliassen, Varg Veum - Falne engler

Beste foto: Philip Øgaard, Kautokeino-opprøret

Beste scenografi: Karl K. Juliusson, Kautokeino-opprøret

Beste musikk: Mari Boine, Svein Schultz, Herman Rundberg, Kautokeino-opprøret

Beste klipp: Vidar Flataukan, Mannen som elsket Yngve

Beste lyddesign: Petter Fladeby, O'Horten

Beste dokumentar: Blod & ære, regi Håvard Bustnes, produsent Dag Hoel for Faction Film AS

Beste kortfilm: Varde, regi Hanne Larsen, produsent Mona Steffensen for Original Film AS

Amandakomiteens Gullklapper: Fotograf John Christian Rosenlund

Amandakomiteens Ærespris: Regissør Knut Erik Jensen

Premier of "Kurt blir grusom"

(Dan grew his own mustache for his Kurt video
in Intermediate Norwegian at St. Olaf.)

In our third-semester Norwegian courses at St. Olaf College, we have used the children's novel Kurt quo vadis by Erlend Loe as a supplement to the textbook Stein på stein. The students love the characters, the use of language, and the humor in the book, and everyone can identify with Kurt's struggle to find a job that makes him feel important and equal to his wife, who is an architect, and to their friends, who are doctors, lawyers, teachers, etc.

At the end of the semester, we always have the students divide up into groups and create a video based on two of the chapters from the book. On the last two days of class, we watch the videos to review the main events in the book, share our work with one another, and celebrate the end of the semester. Those days are a highlight for everyone, students and teachers alike.

Two years ago, inspired by inquiries from campus security about what our students were doing using the dormitory vacuums outside, my colleague Marte and I wrote a parodi of the Kurt story and showed it to the students on the last day.

Kurt blir grusom på film (Source: Aftenposten, Dag Kjørholt, 06.05.08)
For the past two years, there has been an animated film in the works that is based on two of the books in the Kurt series, Kurt blir grusom and Kurt quo vadis. Currently several well-known Norwegian actors and comedians are doing the final recordings of the voices for the Kurt characters, and recently they met with the press to discuss the film, which is scheduled for release on Oct. 31, 2008. See the article from Aftenposten above and the trailer from YouTube