Corral and two years after he directed donald pleasance in the great escape, sturges teamed up with both of them for this ambitiously wild comedy western. O horten, a bittersweet whimsy by the norwegian director bent hamer, finds that effortless. Blacktree tv interview with bent hamer on his film, ohorten. The video game on this weeks episode of the completionist subscribe. It must involve us in the lives of its characters, so we can understand why they are funny while at the same time so distant. Jun 18, 2009 blacktree tv interview with bent hamer on his film, ohorten. O horten 2007 is a dark comedy norwegian film directed by bent hamer. O horten is a 2007 norwegian language film directed by bent hamer. On the day of his retirement he ends up in an unexpected situation, and is forced to reconsider his life. Eight years after john sturges directed burt lancaster in gunfight at the o.
Odd is a common enough first name in norway, but reflect that. Interview with bent hamer, writer and director of ohorten. The moment the train leaves the station without engineer odd horten bard owe aboard, he realizes that the path ahead is a journey. With baard owe, espen skjonberg, ghita norby, henny moan. The film s title character odd horten is a habitbound train driver, who is about to retire. It looks like we dont have any quotes for this title yet. At least silent grace had a new angle on the topic, focusing on the littleknown women prisoners. Having lived nearly his whole adult life in the shadow of the railyard, he. Ohorten, a bittersweet whimsy by the norwegian director bent hamer, finds that effortless. A drama focused on a lifechanging moment in 67yearold train engineer odd hortens existence. Off his train, the engineer is derailed, in bent hamers film the.
Ohorten is made up of meticulously constructed, deadpan scenes that turn on keatonesque visual jokes. A blacktree media production thank you for watching. Pensionierter eisenbahner erlebt skurrile abenteuer an seinem letzten arbeitstag. H3 this being the second feature film on the ira hunger strike seen in a 72hour period, i have to ask again, why would anybody want to tackle the subject in a fictionalized film after terry george and jim sheridan did such a good job in some mothers son. By early august 2009, the film had in fact been seen by more people in the united states than in norway. Blacktree is at all the hottest events on the planet award shows, movie. It is about a retiring railroad engineer named odd. The new ghostbusters movie is coming out, but i tackle ataris ghostbusters. As is the movie devoted to him, written and directed by bent hamer, whose name also looks like a. The soundtrack of the film was released in 2008, under the name music from the motion picture o horten. Ohorten 2009 at the age of 67, odd horten baard owe is forced to retire from his longtime job as a train engineer. It is about a retiring railroad engineer named odd horten. A septuagenarian taking his penultimate voyage from oslo to bergen begins to mentally prepare for his final trip, but finds that sometimes things dont turn out as expected when he misses the last. Ohorten stromt allerdings wesentlich mehr warme aus als kaurismakis letzter film.