A Somewhat Gentle Man

Original title: En ganske snill mann

IMDb RATING

6.9/10

7.5K

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Ulrik (Skarsgard) is a gangster who is reluctantly back on the streets following a prison stint. His boss wants him to settle an old score, though Ulrik would rather go about his own business, however mundane.

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Ulrik's released from prison after 12 years for murder. Will he go straight? He gets a room and a job as mechanic. He hooks up with his old gang. His son introduces him as uncle to his pregn... Read allUlrik's released from prison after 12 years for murder. Will he go straight? He gets a room and a job as mechanic. He hooks up with his old gang. His son introduces him as uncle to his pregnant fiancée.Ulrik's released from prison after 12 years for murder. Will he go straight? He gets a room and a job as mechanic. He hooks up with his old gang. His son introduces him as uncle to his pregnant fiancée.

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IMDb RATING

6.9/10

7.5K

YOUR RATING

See production info at IMDbPro

Awards
- 7 wins & 9 nominations total

Trivia
Stellan Skarsgård (Ulrik), Jon Øigarden (Kristian), Anders Baasmo (Scrap Dealer), Jan Gunnar Røise (Geir) & Gard B. Eidsvold (Rolf) all worked together on In Order of Disappearance (2014) as Nils Dickman, Karsten Petterson, Geir. Jappe & Svela respectively.

Connections
Features The Leper (1976)

Soundtracks
Cuban Suger
Written by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Performed by Klazz Brothers & Cuba Percussion

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Featured review

8/10

Complications with women, kids, cars and a violent past

A Kaurismäki-style dark comedy about a man coming out of prison after a 12 year sentence. Stellan Skarsgårds character gets lots of complications, even though most are willing to give the convicted man a lot a chances to begin a new life, with warnings to not ever looking behind at the past.

That is of course impossible, starting over in his old environment of a run down Oslo suburb. Everyone gives him a chance, even the old acquainted mafia-boss, which wants him to kill again. Women of all kinds still finds him attractive, and his old debt to the local mafia-boss makes life more complicated than it should be. Is he ready to kill again?

Hans Petter Moland got lots of praise at Berlin Filmfestival with this worn down comedy. Especially the "sex for food"-scenes with his landlady, being the jealous sister of the mafia-boss, was making a buzz.

The film functions as a nice story, and is good entertainment, but seems to lack a little in the manuscript to make it a classic. The casting is perfect, though, and this film could really have been an instant classic. Still there's scenes that is quite memorable, and there's hope even in a quite hopeless situation. Moland still gives his audience films we remember!