3 Movies Starring Joachim Calmeyer

On the Threshold

On the Threshold

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1985-08-10

Languages:

Norwegian

Countries:

Norway

Runtime:

90 min

IMDB Ratings:

(30 Reviews)

Director:

Leif Erlsboe

Genres:

Drama

Fullplot:

Kitchen Stories

Kitchen Stories

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2003-01-17

Languages:

Norwegian, Swedish

Countries:

Norway, Sweden

Runtime:

95 min

Rated:

PG

IMDB Ratings:

7.3 (6757 Reviews)

Director:

Bent Hamer

Genres:

ComedyDrama

Fullplot:

In post war Sweden it was discovered that every year, an average housewife walks the equivalent number of miles as the distance between Stockholm and Congo, while preparing her family meals. So the Home Research Institute sent out eighteen observers to a rural district of Norway to map out the kitchen routines of single men. The researchers were on twenty-four-hour call, and sat in special strategically placed chairs in each kitchen. Furthermore, under no circumstances were the researchers to be spoken to, or included in the kitchen activities.

Home for Christmas

Home for Christmas

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2010-11-12

Languages:

Norwegian, English, Serbian, French

Countries:

Norway, Sweden, Germany

Runtime:

90 min

IMDB Ratings:

6.2 (753 Reviews)

Director:

Bent Hamer

Genres:

ComedyDrama

Cast:

Writer:

Bent Hamer

Levi Henriksen (contributing writer)

Fullplot:

Following a prologue set in war-torn former Yugoslavia, the film follows several different Christmas celebrations in the small Norwegian town of Skogli. Paul is a thirty-three-year-old laborer who marches into his doctor's office demanding a prescription, then proceeds to lay bare all his woes. The doctor is beleaguered by his own marital and financial difficulties (he's left his upset wife to work emergency calls on Christmas Eve). There's also an elderly man preparing an esoteric ritual, a vagrant who runs into an old flame, a middle-aged couple in the throes of passion, a boy hopelessly in love with his Muslim neighbor and a young èmigrè couple whose car breaks down as the woman goes into labor.

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