Eggs

Norway

1995

87 Min

Color

1.66:1

Norwegian

Currently 3.6/5 Stars.
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CAST Sverre Hansen, Kjell Stormoen, Leif Andrée, Juni Dahr, Ulf Wengård, Trond Høvik, Alf Conrad Olsen, Leif Malmberg, Bjørn Westad, Jon Brattland, Gunnar Engeland

SOUND Per Carleson, Baard H. Ingebretsen

Cannes (Quinzaine des Réalisateurs), Toronto: FIPRESCI Prize, São Paulo (Retrospective), San Sebastián (Cold Fever)

Synopsis

Two brothers in their seventies, Pa and Moe, have lived together all their lives in a little house in the country, the only interruption being when Pa made a weekend trip to Småland on his moped during the second World War. The past returns when his adult son dating from his Swedish visit, Konrad, comes to live with them after his mother has fallen ill. Soon Moe is about to discover that three is indeed a crowd. –IMDb

Director

Bent Hamer

Bent Hamer is a film director, writer and producer, born in Sandefjord, Norway in 1956.

Hamer studied film theory and literature at the University of Stockholm and the Stockholm Film School. In addition to his feature films, he has written and directed a number of short films and documentaries. His first film, Eggs, premiered at the 1995 Cannes Film Festival where it was shown in the Directors’ Fortnight section. That same year, it was shown in competition at the Moscow International Film Festival where it won the award for Best First Film; it also received the FIPRESCI Prize at the 1995 Toronto Film Festival. His 2003 film Kitchen Stories screened at many international festivals and was the Norwegian submission for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.

In April 2004, Bent Hamer started shooting Factotum based on the novel of the same name by US poet and writer Charles Bukowski. The screenplay was written by Hamer and Jim Stark… read more