Kitchen Stories

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Movie
German title Kitchen Stories
Original title Salmer from kjøkkenet
Country of production Norway
Sweden
original language Norwegian
Swedish
Publishing year 2003
length 95 minutes
Age rating FSK without age restriction
Rod
Director Bent Hamer
script Bent Hamer
Jörgen Bergmark
production Jörgen Bergmark
Bent Hamer
music Hans Mathisen
camera Philip Øgaard
cut Pål Gengenbach
occupation

Kitchen Stories (Original title: Salmer fra kjøkkenet ) is a comedy film by Norwegian director Bent Hamer from 2003 . The director also wrote the script together with Jörgen Bergmark and produced the film. The main roles were played by Joachim Calmeyer and Tomas Norström .

action

Norway in the 1950s. The Swedish Research Institute for Home and Household has already successfully examined the behavior of housewives in their kitchens in their own country and has thus been able to optimize the arrangement of household appliances. Now it's over to Norway, which has right -hand traffic, to study the habits of the bachelors there. Each participant is assigned an observer, who from now on, equipped with a high seat and notepad, takes a seat in the test person's kitchen in order to be able to start the recordings. Personal contact, speaking and help with daily work are strictly prohibited in order not to falsify the research results.

But this tense situation is looking for its own outlets; the roles are blurred. The ending, far from scientific distance, shows two bizarre men who eventually become friends.

Publications

The film premiered on January 15, 2003 at the Tromsø Internasjonale Film Festival . Two days later it was shown in Norwegian cinemas, where 85,182 visitors saw it. Kitchen Stories was launched in several other European countries between September 2003 and May 2005 and was shown at numerous film festivals around the world. The film had a box office earnings of 2.61 million US dollars . He grossed 351,235 US dollars of this in the USA, where the film opened in theaters on February 10, 2004.

The German theatrical release was on February 5, 2004. In German-speaking Switzerland it was shown on March 4, 2004, in Austria on January 6, 2005. In October 2004, the film was released on DVD in Germany .

On December 18, 2004, the play of the same name by Hans Petter Blad was premiered at the Deutsches Theater Göttingen . The play is published by the theater publisher Whale Songs , Hamburg.

reception

"From the surreal satire about social control gradually grows a gentle study of male loneliness and from this the beginning of a wonderful friendship."

- Berliner Morgenpost

“In his Norwegian Oscar contribution abroad, author and director Bent Hamer tells a simple story of loneliness and friendship, of individual differences and universal similarities. Implemented with warmth and sympathy, the unusual buddy movie with its main actors Joachim Calmeyer and Tomas Norström impressed international festival juries and visitors. Friends of weird humor will have a great time with this clever male comedy. "

- Video Week

Awards

The film won the Amanda Award , a Norwegian film award that is presented annually at the Norwegian International Film Festival in Haugesund in August , in the category of best film . He was able to prevail against Pål Øies horror film Villmark , among others .

At the Nordic Film Days Lübeck in 2003, the film won the Baltic Film Prize . At the Flanders International Film Festival , Kitchen Stories received an award in the Best Screenplay category and a nomination for the Golden Trace, the festival's main prize. Bent Hamer won the Golden Swan for Best Director at the Copenhagen International Film Festival . In the same category he was awarded at the São Paulo International Film Festival . The film won the FIPRESCI award at the Tromsø Internasjonale film festival in Norway .

Norway submitted the film as a nominee for an Oscar nomination for Best Foreign Language Film . The film was neither nominated nor awarded.

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