Tuba Atlantic
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Tuba Atlantic |
| Original title | Tuba Atlantic |
| Country of production | Norway |
| original language | Norwegian |
| Publishing year | 2010 |
| length | 25 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Hallvar Witzø |
| script | Linn-Jeanethe Kyed |
| production | Gudrun Austli |
| music | Nils Økland |
| camera | Karl Erik Brøndbo |
| cut | Vesa happonen |
| occupation | |
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Tuba Atlantic is a Norwegian short film tragic comedy directed by Hallvar Witzø in 2010.
action
The 70-year-old fisherman Oskar learns from his doctor that he only has six days to live. He decides to spend the time at home. He tries to reach his brother in New Jersey , but the number is out of date. Shortly afterwards, the young Inger knocks on his door and introduces herself to him as his "death angel" from the Christian Jesus Club, who is to accompany him on his last journey. Oskar refuses her attention and devotes himself to shooting seagulls. Only when she manages to kill a seagull with a Sunday shot is Inger allowed to stay. She meticulously crosses out the various stages of his path to death in a notebook, as it is her third attempt to accompany a person until the end of his life - the other two survived. Inger bridges the "anger" phase by giving Oskar a sleeping pill that lets him sleep through the whole day. The very next day he went back to hunting gulls and blew up some of them with a fish that had been provided with dynamite. Although Inger is repulsed by his behavior and wants to leave, she stays.
In later phases of his path to death, Oskar mentions his brother Jon in America. Neither of them have been in contact for 30 years because of an inheritance dispute. Now he would like to talk to him again, but the phone number is no longer busy. One last chance is an oversized tuba that he built with Jon when he was a child and whose tone should also be heard in America with the west wind. Neither of them had ever tested their invention. When the west wind comes up, Oskar and Inger make the tuba sound. The resulting sound wave is gigantic, it fetches the seagulls from the sky, bursts all windows in the hospital and pulls cattle into the sea even on distant islands. The sound wave finally reaches America, where Jon realizes the cause. He uses the radio to ask his brother to turn on his phone so they can both talk on the phone. Oskar hears him on the radio and dies shortly afterwards. Inger he inherited his rifle before. The young woman removes the last phase of death in her notebook. Shortly afterwards, when seagull droppings land on her handle, she picks up her rifle and starts shooting at the birds.
production
Tuba Atlantic was made as Hallvar Witzø's graduation film at the Norwegian film school Den norske filmskolen in Lillehammer . The state television broadcaster NRK2 first showed the film in August 2010.
Awards (selection)
At the Student Academy Awards , the film won the gold medal for Best Foreign Language Film. The film received the Don Quixote Prize at the Krakow Film Festival and the Prix des Médiathèques at the Festival du Court-Métrage de Clermont-Ferrand .
Tuba Atlantic was nominated for an Oscar in the category Best Short Film in 2012 . It was only after the Oscar ceremony that it became known that the film had already shown on Norwegian television in 2010, which is why it should not have entered the Oscar race. The nomination was therefore subsequently deemed invalid in July 2012.
Web links
- Tuba Atlantic in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Norway’s Oscar film candidate "should never have been nominated" . newsinenglish.no, February 29, 2012.
- ↑ Information according to http://awardsdatabase.oscars.org