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Songs from the Second Floor

Original title: Sånger från andra våningen
  • 20002000
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  • 1h 38m
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Songs from the Second Floor (2000)
ComedyDrama
Where are we humans going? A film poem inspired by the Peruvian poet César Vallejo. We meet people in the city. People trying to communicate, searching compassion and get the connection of s... Read allWhere are we humans going? A film poem inspired by the Peruvian poet César Vallejo. We meet people in the city. People trying to communicate, searching compassion and get the connection of small and large things.Where are we humans going? A film poem inspired by the Peruvian poet César Vallejo. We meet people in the city. People trying to communicate, searching compassion and get the connection of small and large things.
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    • Roy Andersson
    • Roy Andersson
  • Stars
    • Lars Nordh
    • Stefan Larsson
    • Bengt C.W. Carlsson
    • Roy Andersson
    • Roy Andersson
  • Stars
    • Lars Nordh
    • Stefan Larsson
    • Bengt C.W. Carlsson
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    • 112User reviews
    • 43Critic reviews
    • 77Metascore
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    Lars Nordh
    • Kalle
    Stefan Larsson
    • Stefan
    Bengt C.W. Carlsson
    • Lennart
    Torbjörn Fahlström
    • Pelle Wigert
    Sten Andersson
    • Lasse
    Rolando Núñez
    • Immigrant
    • (as Rolando Nunez)
    Lucio Vucina
    • The magician
    Per Jörnelius
    • The sawed man…
    Peter Roth
    • Tomas
    Klas-Gösta Olsson
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    Nils-Åke Eriksson
    • Patient
    Hanna Eriksson
    • Mia
    Tommy Johansson
    • Uffe
    Sture Olsson
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    Fredrik Sjögren
    • TheHanged Russian boy
    Stephen Whitton
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    • Trivia
      Each scene is shot with one take where the camera stands still as the actors embrace the frame (the camera moves once in the entire film, in the railway station scene).
    • Quotes

      Kalle: What can I say? It's not easy being human.

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    Wonderfully darkly funny and incomparably Swedish.
    Possibly incomprehensible to those who have never lived in Sweden, where whole hours somehow manage to lose themselves in a meditative calm that exists nowhere else. Songs from the Second Floor is truly Ingemar Bergman meets Monty Python, as Roy Andersson non too gently deflates the pretentious, the pompous and the self important. The sparse dialogue and hugely tongue-in-cheek solemnity will either offend the spectator to the point of rage, or scratch the itch that nothing else quite reaches. I adored it. Like raw oysters, broccoli or goat milk - you'll either connect with the Roy Andersson brand of iconoclastic insanity and love this one ... or you'll hate it with a passion. There'll be no fence-sitting with this Nordic treasure.
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      • October 6, 2000 (Sweden)
      • Sweden
      • Norway
      • Denmark
      • Swedish
      • Russian
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      • Slite, Gotlands län, Sweden
    • Production companies
      • Arte France Cinéma
      • Canal+
      • Coproduction Office
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    • 1 hour 38 minutes
      • Color
      • Dolby Digital

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