Morgan Palsson: World Reporter ( Morgan Pålsson - Världsreporter )

Morgan Palsson: World Reporter (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Morgan Pålsson - Världsreporter
Language Selections:
Danish ( Subtitles )
English ( Subtitles )
Finnish ( Subtitles )
Norwegian ( Subtitles )
Swedish ( Dolby Digital 5.1 )
Swedish ( Subtitles )

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

Running Time:
84 min

Aspect Ratio:
Anamorphic Widescreen (1.85:1)

Special Features:
Commentary
Featurette
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Storyboards

Movie filmed in 2008 and produced in:
Sweden ( Scandinavia, Iceland )

Directed By:
Fredrik Boklund

Written By:
Wiktor Ericsson
Anders Jansson

Actors:
Anders Jansson ..... Morgan Pålsson
Johan Wester ..... Robert Flycht
Karim Rasheed ..... Mohammed
Suzanne Reuter ..... Eva
Rolf Skoglund ..... Stig
Camilla Frey ..... Åse Seierland
Elisabeth Lahr ..... Marit
Fredrik Dolk ..... Sven
Thomas Ungewitter ..... Owe
Riadh Ahmad ..... Fajr Al-Zowari
Said Legue ..... Al-Benan
Falih Hassan Shamkhi ..... King Hajib II
Ian Heathcote ..... British news anchor
Tom Gleason ..... American news anchor
Meysam Abbas ..... Arabic news anchor

Synopsis:

Morgan Pålsson is a self absorbed Swedish television journalist (yes, it's redundant) with a knack for getting himself kicked from the frying pan, directly into the fire. The movie opens with Morgan and Robert setting up in Klaipeda, Lithuania on a dock awaiting the arrival of several dignitaries including the Prime Minister of Sweden. Pålsson quickly points out to Flycht that while he's a strict company man Flycht is a mere freelancer, therefore Flycht gets to carry the gear. Pålsson, trying to figure out where they are, mentions that the name of the town sounds like a venereal disease. Then, in Clouseau-esque fashion, Pålsson trips the Lithuanian President with his microphone cable, mispronounces his name and announces that they're reporting live from chlamydia. Instead of being fired, which the manager of the SVT network would never do to his friend, Pålsson and Flycht, who were supposed to get a long-term assignment in Washington DC, are sent to the small North African country of Maboto to cover the local government's switch from a monarchy to a democracy. The storyline actually offers some rather complex twists with the introduction of a megalomaniacal Afghani terrorist leader who comes to Maboto to steal plutonium from a forgotten military base in the Maboto desert to make into briefcase-sized dirty bombs. The terrorist not only engineers his own, supposed, assasination but also a faux military coup on the Mabotoan government, in order to camouflage his operation. Now enter Morgan's arch nemesis, female reporter Åse Seierland (Camilla Frey), and her gibberish speaking camera-person, Marit (Elisabeth Lar). Åse has everything that Morgan doesn't like intelligence, looks, charisma, talent and a good sense of journalistic precognition. Of course, what Morgan lacks in skills he more than makes up for in over-inflated ego and disastrous ignorance. The competition between these two, completely engineered by Pålsson, winds up being one of the most interesting and funny aspects of the entire movie. It comes in a close second to the running theme of Pålsson and Flycht's awkward and almost, but not quite, intimate friendship. There are more than a few scenes in which the director cleverly creates a huge amount of almost homosexual tension between Flycht and Pålsson that lead to a colossal number of laughs and eventually becomes part of the main character's personal growth.

This product was added to our catalog on Wednesday 25 March, 2009.

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