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Director:

Roy Andersson

Writer:

Roy Andersson (writer)

Contact:

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Release Date:

6 October 2000 (Sweden) more

Genre:

Drama more

Plot:

A film poem inspired by the Peruvian poet César Vallejo. A story about our need for love, our confusion... more | add synopsis

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Awards:

9 wins & 3 nominations more

NewsDesk:

Underrated Films Celebrated
 (From WENN. 23 April 2001)

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Haunting more (94 total)


Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)
Lars Nordh ... Kalle
Stefan Larsson ... Stefan
Bengt C.W. Carlsson ... Lennart
Torbjörn Fahlström ... Pelle Wigert
Sten Andersson ... Lasse
Rolando Núñez ... The foreigner (as Rolandp Nunez)
Lucio Vucina ... The magician
Per Jörnelius ... The sawed man
Peter Roth ... Tomas
Klas-Gösta Olsson ... The speechwriter (as Klas Gosta Olsson)
Nils-Åke Eriksson ... Patient
Hanna Eriksson ... Mia
Tommy Johansson ... Uffe
Sture Olsson ... Sven
Fredrik Sjögren ... The Russian boy
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Additional Details

Also Known As:

Sange fra anden sal (Denmark)
Sanger fra andre etasje (Norway)
Songs from the Second Floor (International: English title)
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Runtime:

98 min

Language:

Swedish

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.66 : 1 more

Sound Mix:

Dolby SR


Fun Stuff

Trivia:

It took director Roy Andersson four years to complete this film. more

Quotes:

Business Man: We have already sacrificed our youth. Can we do more? more

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Referenced in Blodigt jävla helvete (2008) more


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36 out of 38 people found the following comment useful.
Haunting, 16 March 2004
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Author: bartman_9 from Belgium

A magician screws up and saws a volunteer from the audience in half. A man is trying to claim insurance from the shop he burnt down himself, while outside a procession of flagellants whip themselves into a frenzy. The city is plagued by an enormous traffic jam because for some inexplicable reason, everybody seems to be heading in the same direction.

In a series of loosely connected, beautifully shot, meticulously framed and brilliantly designed tableaux vivants, director Roy Anderson gives his unique vision on Western civilization, a vision that is often angry, absurd, dark, surreal and hilariously funny. It is set in a gray, sombre, anonymous city filled with grey sombre anonymous people who are all lonely, frustrated and searching in vain for salvation in a cold and uncaring universe. If there is a better metaphor for Mankind at the end of the twentieth century - or the beginning of the twenty-first - than this movie's final image I have not seen it.

'It's not easy being human' says one of the characters in this movie. No, but it's movies like these that make it worthwhile.

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