Kill Billy
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Kill Billy |
| Original title | Harold |
| Country of production |
Norway , Sweden |
| original language | Norwegian |
| Publishing year | 2014 |
| length | 88 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 6 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Gunnar Vikene |
| script | Gunnar Vikene |
| production | Maria Ekerhovd |
| camera | Simon Pramsten |
| cut | Frida Eggum Michaelsen |
| occupation | |
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Kill Billy (Original title: Her er Harold ) is a Norwegian - Swedish drama from 2014 based on the novel An Honest Offer (2011) by Frode Grytten . Directed by Gunnar Vikene , who also wrote the script. The film premiered on October 9, 2014 and opened in German cinemas on June 23, 2016.
action
Harold successfully ran a furniture store in Norway for 40 years until IKEA opened a branch right next door. Six months later, he's broke. His wife Marny has dementia and his son Jan has almost no contact with him. He takes his wife to a nursing home, where she dies a short time later. Harold sheds furniture polish in the store, wants to burn the store down and die himself in the process. This fails because the sprinkler system reliably triggers and extinguishes the fire.
Harold packs a few things and drives the old Saab to Jan's house. They drink and do target practice in the basement. Harold has the idea to take revenge on the IKEA founder Kamprad and kidnap him. Jan's wife throws both of them out of the house because she and Jan are separated. Harold took Jan's pistol with him for his project . On departure he gives Jan his mother's jewelry and tells him that she is dead.
On the way to Sweden, Harold falls asleep in the car. The next day, the young woman Ebba finds him. When he tells her about his plan, she offers to show him Kamprad's house, which is guarded by a sharp shepherd dog . Against the dog and against the cold, Harold wraps himself in packaging film . Unfortunately it's not the right house. Ebba lied to him. It is not that easy to get to Kamprad.
When he wanted to drive back to Norway, he stopped on a country road by a broken-down Volvo . Its driver turns out to be a camper bike. Harold kidnaps him first to his hotel room and later to Ebba's mother's trailer . While Harald and Ebba buy something to eat, Kamprad flees, but breaks into the nearby frozen lake. Harold runs onto the ice with his gun and breaks in too. Both of them are up to their arms in cold winter water. Ebba saves them with a sturdy branch.
Back in the caravan and with warm clothes, Harold and Ebba want to shoot a video that they want to give to the media. In it Kamprad is supposed to apologize for the " botch " he sold to his customers. Kamprad gives them tips for the video, but reads another text in which he boasts of 10,000 jobs created. Realizing that the kidnapping was haphazard and aimless, they release Kamprad.
Harold brings Ebba back to her alcoholic mother, who she has taken care of. On the way back to Norway, Harold discovers the IKEA founder in the trunk of his car. Both drive to an IKEA branch, where Kamprad also wants to burn down his building in an attack of sensory crisis . Harold falls into his arms.
He finally wants to make his way back. But his car, which repeatedly had starting problems, refused to work. So he sets off on foot to his son's apartment, who now lives in a high-rise estate . Jan says to him: "Come in, papa!"
reception
The film service believes that Kill Billy is a “ melancholy comedy told with laconic humor and a few dramatic accents”, which entertains mainly “thanks to the precisely used music”.
The film monkey awards 4 out of 5 points and describes Kill Billy as a successful genre mix that satirizes the fight between Sweden and Norway in a loving way .
Web links
- Killbilly in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Film on nb.no at Nasjonalbiblioteket -Filmografie (Norwegian)
- Film on Filmweb.no (Norwegian)
- Film on filmfront.no (Norwegian)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for Kill Billy . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , December 2015 (PDF; test number: 156 256 K).
- ↑ Kjetil Lismoen: Bjørn Sundquist i praktslag i "Her er Harold" ( Norwegian ) Aftenposten . March 8, 2015. Retrieved October 30, 2014.
- ↑ Jon Selas: Filmanmeldelse: "Her er Harold" ( Norwegian ) In: vg.no . Verdens gang . October 29, 2014. Retrieved March 8, 2015.
- ↑ Birger Vestmo : Her er Harold ( Norwegian ) In: p3.no . Film politics . October 29, 2014. Retrieved March 8, 2015.
- ^ Kill Billy - short review . In: Filmdienst.de . Retrieved July 4, 2016.
- ↑ Movie review: KILL BILLY (2016). July 17, 2016, accessed September 21, 2016 .