Thomas Nordseth-Tiller

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Shooting of the film "Max Manus" in Oslo

Thomas Nordseth-Tiller (born November 27, 1980 in Lørenskog , Norway ; † May 12, 2009 in Oslo ) was a Norwegian screenwriter .

life and work

Thomas Nordseth-Tiller studied production, film directing and screenwriting in Oslo, at Edith Cowan University in Perth and at the Academy of Art University in San Francisco and graduated with a bachelor's degree. As early as in San Francisco, he had submitted the draft of a script as an exam paper that dealt with the resistance against the German occupation of Norway in World War II . The leading head of a sabotage group known at the time as Oslogjengen (Oslobande) was Max Manus . Thomas Nordseth-Tiller developed the script based on the books by Max Manus, Det vil helst gå godt and Det blir alvor .

Back in Norway, Thomas Nordseth-Tiller submitted a script entitled Vi vil oss et land to the Kosmorama Film Festival 2006 in Trondheim . The jury, including Liv Ullmann and the writer Erlend Loe , awarded Thomas Nordseth-Tiller the first prize of 100,000 crowns . Nordseth-Tiller then agreed with the respected Norwegian producer John M. Jacobsen , who had produced films such as Pathfinder and Head Over Water , to film the script and increasingly put the plot around the central character Max Manus. After the Norwegian Film Fund had agreed to support it at the end of 2007, Jacobsen was able to provide a film budget of 55 million crowns (6.25 million euros). It was the highest budget that had ever been allowed for a Norwegian film.

In the meantime, Thomas Nordseth-Tiller made short films and commercials, where he was responsible for the script and direction.

Shooting of the film “ Max Manus ” began in February 2008. Thomas Nordseth-Tiller accompanied the film in all of its phases as a co-producer. The film premiered on December 19, 2008 in Oslo. King Harald V and Gunnar Sønsteby , next to Max Manus another leading figure in the Norwegian resistance, were also present. By May 2009 the film had seen 1.2 million visitors in Norway.

He was only diagnosed with cancer a few months before his death. Before being admitted to the hospital, Nordseth-Tiller worked on another script about the Norwegian resistance in World War II . He dealt with the role of the communist leader Asbjørn Sunde , who had founded the so-called Osvald group . Like the group around Max Manus, the latter was also involved in acts of sabotage. The basis for the script was Sundes' autobiography Menn i mørket (Men in the Dark) , published in 1947 .

Thomas Nordseth-Tiller died of cancer on May 12, 2009 at the age of 28. John M. Jacobsen, who had produced Max Manus with Nordseth-Tiller , learned of his death in Stockholm, where the film had its Swedish premiere for the general public that day. Before that, Max Manus was shown only once at the opening of the Norwegian Film Days in Sweden.

Awards

At the Norwegian International Film Festival in Haugesund in August 2009 , Thomas Nordseth-Tiller was posthumously awarded the Amanda Award for the screenplay for Max Manus .

literature

  • Thomas Nordseth-Tiller and Arnfinn Moland: Max Manus - Film og virkelighet . Orion Forlag, Oslo 2008 ISBN 978-82-458-0879-7

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Portrait of Thomas Nordseth-Tiller in Norske Dramatikerforbundet
  2. ^ Marit C. Anderssen: Så manus bli film. In: Romerikes Blad . April 15, 2008, accessed April 16, 2008 (Norwegian, interview with Thomas Nordseth-Tiller).
  3. ↑ Cast of the film Max Manus on Fandango.com
  4. ^ Culture: "Max Manus" på svenska biografer. Page no longer available , search in web archives: Official Norwegian website for Sweden of April 30, 2009@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.norge.se
  5. ↑ Amanda Awards 2009 ( Memento of the original from July 19, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.filmweb.no
personal data
SURNAME Nordseth-Tiller, Thomas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Norwegian screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH November 27, 1980
PLACE OF BIRTH Lørenskog , Norway
DATE OF DEATH May 12, 2009
Place of death Oslo , Norway