Falling Sky ( Himmelfall ) ( The Sky Is Falling Down )

Falling Sky (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Himmelfall
Alternate Title: The Sky Is Falling Down
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
Danish ( Subtitles )
English ( Subtitles )
Norwegian ( Dolby Digital 5.1 )
Norwegian ( Subtitles )
Swedish ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
Sweden ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
87 min

Aspect Ratio:
Anamorphic Widescreen (1.85:1)

Special Features:
Cast/Crew Interview(s)
Commentary
Deleted Scenes
Documentary
Interactive Menu
Music Video
Scene Access
Short Film
Trailer(s)

Movie filmed in 2002 and produced in:
Norway ( Scandinavia, Iceland )

Directed By:
Gunnar Vikene

Written By:
Gunnar Vikene
Torun Lian

Actors:
Kristoffer Joner ..... Reidar
Maria Bonnevie ..... Juni
Kim Bodnia ..... Johannes, Psykiater
Hildegun Riise ..... Vigdis, Hjemmehjelpen
Endre Hellestveit ..... Thomas
Kjersti Sandal ..... Siw
Min Min Tun ..... Wong
Gitte Rio Jørgensen ..... Fru Ruud
Stig R. Amdam ..... Policeman #1 (as Stig Amdam)
Janny Hoff Brekke ..... Juni's Mother
Gjert Haga ..... Policeman #3
Jon Ketil Johnsen ..... Sykepleier
Sigurd Aae Klausen ..... Eilert
Petter Width Kristiansen ..... Policman #2
Sverre Rossummoen ..... Juni's father
Bjørn Sundquist

Synopsis:

Gunnar Vikene's dark comedy Himmelfall (Falling Sky) concerns itself with patients and doctors at a mental institution in the days before Christmas. The head psychiatrist (Kim Bodina) is impotent and his wife (Hildegun Riise) is engaged in an affair with a cabbie (Endre Hellestveit). Reidar (Kristoffer Joner) is a patient with a senile mother and a firm belief that a meteor is going to slam into the hospital. He is in love with Juni, another patient whose parents are celebrating the holidays on vacation without her. Complications arise when Juni and the cabbie meet. Falling Sky was screened at the Gothenburg Film Festival.

Reidar is a resident at Solihøgda psychiatric institution. He is expecting the Earth to be hit by a huge meteor any time now, but until then he is busy trying to keep his fellow patient, Juni, from killing herself. And it doesn't happen often. But maybe one is allowed to hope. That when the quarks in the ball are correctly aligned with the quarks in the wall that you throw it at, there won't be a collision. But a moment of harmony when everything is balanced. And that moment could be now.

This product was added to our catalog on Tuesday 13 June, 2006.

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