"The X Files" Død Kalm (1995)

Director:

Rob Bowman

Writers:

Chris Carter (creator)
Howard Gordon (teleplay) ...

TV Series:

"The X Files" (1993)

Original Air Date:

10 March 1995 (Season 2, Episode 19)

Genre:

Drama | Horror | Mystery | Sci-Fi | Thriller

Plot:

When some people on a ship are rescued, it is discovered that they are aging and later, dying. Mulder takes it upon himself to investigate the ship, which he believes has been the target of Philadelphia Experiments.

Plot Keywords:

Intentional Mistranslation | Abandoned Ship | FBI | FBI Agent | Alien

Cast

David Duchovny	...	Fox Mulder
Gillian Anderson	...	Dana Scully
John Savage	...	Henry Trondheim
David Cubitt	...	Captain Barclay
Vladimir Kulich	...	Olafsson
Stephen Dimopoulos	...	Ionesco
Claire Riley	...	Dr. Lascos
Robert Metcalfe	...	Nurse
Dmitry Chepovetsky	...	Lt. Richard Harper

Runtime:

Argentina:60 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English | Norwegian

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

Sound Mix:

Stereo

Certification:

Argentina:13

Company:

20th Century Fox Television

Trivia:

The title "Død Kalm" is probably meant to resemble Norwegian for "Dead Calm" (referring to the movie Dead Calm (1989)) but it's gibberish. While the word "død" actually means dead, "kalm" is not a Norwegian word. The literal translation would be "Dødelig ro" (a deadly calm), whereas the proper translation (a quiet sea without waves) would be "Vindstille" or "Blikkstille". And in any case for a Norwegian title only the first letter is capitalized (Død kalm).

Goofs:

Crew or equipment visible: As the camera is fixed on Henry Trondheim drowning, the cameraman's hand is visible passing upwards on the left side of the screen as if treading water.

I'm Norwegian and I needed to read the translation!

I should probably complain on more things than the Norwegian, but I must say it was awful. it started out well, with the guy at the bar. Hi's six words sounded very authentic, but the rest was almost laughable. I don't think you have to be Skandinavion to realize how bad the Norwegian is in this episode is. It sounded more like a mixture of Icelandic, Danish and Swedich, pretty much everything but Norwegian. Halvorsen and Olafsson were impossible for me to understand, I actually had to read the subtitles to understand what the conversation was about. Henry Trondheim's Norwegian was bad, but at least I understood him. And PS; Tronheim is a city in Norway and I doubt you would ever find it as a persons last name.

Also if you read the IMDb trivia for this episode you'll see how meaningless the title of this episode is. Only word that meant sense was DØD which translates DEAD. KALM isn't even a word, but I think they believed it meant CALM. but then again what is DEAD CALM supposed to mean? Otherwise the story wasn't really that special either, one of the least interesting so far. And it lost it's "fright factor" very early on. The previous episode with all the zoo animals, had more tension and atmosphere than this one. I give this episode a 6/10.