O'Horten / written, directed and produced by Bent Hamer.

Format:

Video

Contributor:

Hamer, Bent, 1956- director, producer.

Sony Pictures Classics (Firm), production company.

Series:

Academic Video Online

Language:

Norwegian

Subjects (All):

Railroad conductors.

Retirement age.

Retirement.

Pipe smokers.

Genre:

Fiction films.

Feature films.

Comedy films.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (90 minutes)

Place of Publication:

[New York, New York] : Sony Pictures Classics, [2009]

Language Note:

In Norwegian.

System Details:

data file

Summary:

The moment the train leaves the station without engineer Odd Horten (Bard Owe) aboard, he realizes the path ahead is a journey without printed timetables and well-known stations. Horten has been forced to retire after 40 years of traveling a very stable rail, and the platform does not feel like a safe place anymore. His orderly, solitary existence is about to give way to a future of unlikely adventures and puzzling dilemmas: will Horten ever travel by plane? Will he finally sell his prized boat? How does Horten end up in a pair of women's red high-heeled shoes? Will he survive a nighttime drive with a blindfolded man at the wheel? O'HORTEN is Bent Hamer's wonderfully skewed view on the human condition, and gives us that somewhat absurdist vision with great warmth, a little melancholy and universal appeal.

Participant:

Bard Owe, Espen Skjonberg, Ghita Norby, Henny Moan, Bjorn Floberg.

Notes:

Title from resource description page (viewed December 08, 2016).

Won 2008 Cannes Film Festival, Palm Dog - Jury Prize

OCLC:

971298036