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Bookmark this pageElling (2001)
Director: Petter Næss
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From Time Out Film Guide
An enormous hit in its native Norway, this ingratiating comedy concerns the stumbling attempts of a couple of paroled loons to negotiate their rehabilitation into the big bad city (Oslo). Elling (Ellefsen) is an officious little mummy's boy with a niggling whine and a weird attachment to government and state; his pal Kjell (Nordin) a well-meaning slob more interested in food and women, though no more knowledgeable of the latter than his troglodyte friend. It's broad, parochial and in the end sentimental, but that's not to say the characters aren't sympathetic as you get to know them. (From a novel by Ingvar Ambjørnsen.Author: NB
Cast & crew
Director: Petter Næss
Producer: Dag Alveberg
Cast: Per Christian Ellefsen, Sven Nordin, Marit Pia Jacobsen, Jørgen Langhelle, Per Christensen, Hilda Olausson, Ola Otnes, Eli-Anne Linnestad full cast
Genre(s): Comedy
Duration: 89 mins
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