A Somewhat Gentle Man

EEN FILM VAN

HANS PETTER MOLAND

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A SOMEWHAT GENTLE MAN – Hans Petter Moland

PROJECT SUMMARY Een productie van PARADOX Taal NOORS Originele titel EN GANSKE SNILL MANN Lengte 105 MINUTEN Genre COMEDY Land van herkomst NOORWEGEN Filmmaker HANS PETTER MOLAND Hoofdrollen STELLAN SKARSGÅRD, JAN GUNNAR RØISE, BJØRN FLOBERG Releasedatum 9 SEPTEMBER 2010 Awards/nominaties BERLIJN FILM FESTIVAL 2010 GEWONNEN PUBLIEKSPRIJS VAN DE BERLINER MORGENPOST NOMINATIE GOUDEN BEER Kijkwijzer TBA SYNOPSIS Ulrik is een vrij zachtaardige man. Hij heeft een paar mensen vermoord en hij heeft er een paar verminkt. Maar dat hoort bij het vak als je gangster bent. Net als gevangenisstraf.

Nu komt Ulrik, na twaalf jaar, weer vrij. Met tegenzin. Buiten wacht Jensen op hem, een baas die zijn werk serieus neemt. Hij ontfermt zich over zijn mensen en heeft zijn zaakjes graag op orde. Jensen vindt het dan ook belangrijk dat Ulrik zijn rekeningen vereffent en zijn verrader vermoordt.

Ulrik besluit zijn zoon op te zoeken, die inmiddels volwassen is. Een fijne jongen met een opleiding, een vriendin en een toekomst. Zijn vriendin is echter niet zo blij met de komst van haar criminele schoonvader. Daar houdt haar familie niet zo van, zij hebben namelijk wel principes.

Ulrik is een vrij zachtaardige man, maar hoe zachtaardig kan hij zijn?

CREW Director HANS PETTER MOLAND Producer STEIN B. KVAE &FINN GJERDRUM D.O.P. PHILIP ØGAARD Sound MORTEN SOLUM Editor JENS CHRISTIAN FODSTAD Screenwriter KIM FUPZ AAKESON Art Director GERT WIEBE Composer HALFDAN E.

CAST Ulrik STELLAN SKARSGÅRD Rune Jensen BJØRN FLOBERG Rolf GARD B. EIDSVOLD Karen Margrethe JORUNN KJELLSBY Geir JAN GUNNAR RØISE Merete JANNIKE KRUSE Sven BJØRN SUNDQUIST Kristian JON ØIGARDEN Wenche KJERSTI HOLMEN Silje JULIA BACHE-WIIG Samen AKSEL HENNIE Kenny HENRIK MESTAD A SOMEWHAT GENTLE MAN – Hans Petter Moland

DIRECTOR’S STATEMENT

‘We are born. We grow up. We lose our innocence. We do some stupid things. And then we die. As we near the end we try to regain some dignity before it’s too late. We seldom succeed. But we try. And look pathetic while trying. Is that embarrassing? Yes, but it´s quite embarrassing to be a human being. In an age of computer exactness, human error is the only thing messing up the order of things. A SOMEWHAT GENTLE MAN is a film about our painful shortcomings, a tribute to less than perfect sex, and a worldwide campaign against the people of petty exactness that rule the world.’

DIRECTORS BIOGRAPHY

Hans Petter Moland has children and lives with a fellow director. He is born in Oslo, Norway, and grew up on a family farm.

Hans Petter has directed 6 feature films. THE LAST LIEUTENANT (1993), ZERO KELVIN (1995), ABERDEEN (2000), THE BEAUTIFUL COUNTRY (2004), COMRADE PEDERSEN (2006) and A SOMEWHAT GENTLE MAN (2010) – and he holds a BFA in Film from Emerson College (1978). This is his second film in Competition at the Berlin International Film Festival. He participated with THE BEAUTIFUL COUNTRY in 2004.

Hans Petter was an exchange student in Grosse Pointe, Michigan as a sixteen year old, and returned to the US to study film. His first passion in life was ski jumping. After a serious accident he had to give it up, but he remains one of Norway’s most avid ski jumping fans.

FILMOGRAFIE & AWARDS

AWARDS/FESTIVALS COMRADE PEDERSEN Montreal World Film Festival – Best Director Award Lubeck Nordic Film Festival – Best Actress Amanda Awards – Best Actress

THE BEAUTIFUL COUNTRY Berlin International Film Festival – Competition Tribeca Film Festival Amanda Awards – nominated – Best Screenplay and Best Film

European Film Awards – nominated – Best Actor, Stellan Skarsgaard Karlovy Vary – Opening Film, competition, Best Actor Award to Ian Kart Toronto International Film Festival Telluride Film Festival Hamptons International Film Festival – Audience Award – Best Feature Film Milan International Film Festival - Best Screenplay Brussels European Film Festival – Best Screenplay Brussels European Film Festival – Silver Iris Best Actress Lena Headey Camerimage – Bronze Frog Philip Øgaard Lubeck Nordic Film Festival – NDR PRIZE Best Film Rouens Nordic Film Festival – Best Actor Ian Hart Damascus International Film Festival – Golden Prize

A SOMEWHAT GENTLE MAN – Hans Petter Moland

ZERO KELVIN San Sebastian International Film Festival – competition, Special Jury Prize Sidney International Film Festival – Audience Award Copenhagen International Film Festival – ASTA Award Best European Film Rouen Nordic Film Festival – Prix de Jeune Amanda Awards Best Norwegian Film Cancun International Film Festival – Best Director

THE LAST LIEUTENANT Ft. Lauderdale International Film Festival – Best Foreign Film Amanda Awards, Norwegian Film Awards, Best Actor

Arne SKOUEN PRIZE Norwegian Cultural Prize (Awarded every other year to filmmaker for outstanding merit.

CAST

STELLAN SKARSGÅRD

2008 Mama Mia 2008 2007 Pirates of the Caribbean 2003 Dogville 1997 Good Will Hunting 1997 Insomnia 1196 Breaking the Waves

Stellan Skarsgård is a well-known Hollywood actor. He spent sixteen years at The Royal Dramatic Theatre, Stockholm. Has made more than 80 films and collaborated twice before with Hans Petter Moland in ‘Zero Kelvin’ and ‘Aberdeen’.

BJØRN FLOBERG

2008 Varg Veum 2006 Uro 2004 UNO 2002 I am Dina 1997 Insomnia

Bjørn Floberg was educated at Oslo National Academy of Arts. Bjørn has made more than 50 feature films, and is currently employed at the National Theatre in Oslo, Norway. He has also been in several films and TV series abroad.

GARD B. EIDSVOLD

2008 The Last Joint Venture 2007 O’Horten

Gard has acted in a number of successful Norwegian movies and Television miniseries. He made his debut at the National Theatre in Norway in 1989, and has since worked continuously with film and theater. His most recent TV-productions are ‘God natt, elskede’ (2009), ‘Hvaler’ (2009) and ‘Torpedo’ (2007).

A SOMEWHAT GENTLE MAN – Hans Petter Moland

JORUNN KJELLSBY

2008 Manhunt 2004 Cry in the woods 2001 You really got me 2000 Get ready to be Boyzvoiced 1993 Beyond the Sky 1991 Straight from the heart

Jorunn has worked as a professional actress for more than 40 years, and was employed at Det Norske Teater in 1977, where she still works. She has also performed in a number of tv-productions. In 1991, she received the The Norwegian Critics Prize for Theatre ‘Teaterkritikerprisen’ and in 2006 she had the great pleasure of being granted the Honorary Amanda Award.