The Last Joint Venture (2008) ( Den Siste revejakta )

The Last Joint Venture (2008) (Blu-Ray) (*)

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Original Title: Den Siste revejakta
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
Norwegian ( Dolby Digital 5.1 )
Norwegian ( Dolby DTS-HD Master Audio )
Norwegian ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
Norway ( Blu-Ray/Region A/B/C )

Running Time:
84 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (2.35:1)

Special Features:
Alternative Footage
Deleted Scenes
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Teaser(s)
Trailer(s)

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

Directed By:
Ulrik Imtiaz Rolfsen

Written By:
Ingvar Ambjørnsen
Mette M. Bølstad

Actors:
Kristoffer Joner ..... Carl
Bjørn Sundquist ..... Stalin Knudsen
Thomas Bo Larsen ..... Mogens
Nicolai Cleve Broch ..... Robert
Cecilie A. Mosli ..... Torill
Rune Melby ..... Zac
Kåre Conradi ..... Glenn (as Corey Conradi)
Linn Skåber ..... Torill
Gard B. Eidsvold ..... Arild
Paul-Ottar Haga ..... Trønder Ole
Robert Skjærstad ..... Svarten
Emilie K. Beck ..... Betty
Jan Gunnar Røise ..... Espen
Marte Cristensen ..... Siv (as Marte Germaine Christensen)
Øyvind Gran ..... Frank
Torgrim Mellum Stene ..... Entusiast
Hans Henrik Verpe ..... Christian

Synopsis:

The hippie decade is coming to an end, and the eighties are approaching fast. Carl and Robert are two slacker characters who live in harmony with the world around them, and let life pass them by in a perpetual hash high. They earn a little dough on minor sales of pot, in their own opinion providing essential stimulus to a suffering population. After the worst drought of all times in the streets of Oslo, they are now ready for their last great scoop. Their dream of a hippie community in the countryside will finally become a reality! Enter Glenn, a financial backer with ambitious yuppie plans. Carl and Robert awake from their hazy harmony, and are forced to fight back. They're about to enter a wild, dramatic and hysterically funny trip through the Oslo underworld and all the way to Finnskogen.

1979 is ending, the 80's are approaching rapidly. Carl and Robert two slacker best friends who smoke hashish as a way of cheerful living - have been peddling hashish for a decade, hitting an all time high with this last batch: 45 Kilos of pure, high grade Nepalese Hashish destined for the draught-dry Oslo streets. In their own eyes they are not criminals they simply provide the life-essential drug to a suffering population. But then Glenn comes along, their friend and ambitious financial-backer-destined-to-be-a-yuppie. He has plans to make this deal even bigger than they have been led to believe. Following the delivery of the hashish, the police are on their tail for heroin-smuggling a fact they cannot explain as they both hate heroin and would never touch the drug. Finally they both awake from their self-induced haze, and fight back in a hilarious, suspenseful and dramatic ending. It's the end of the 70's. The hippie era is fading, and the yuppie era is dawning in the distant future. Carl is pushing hashish to the free spirits in town, and believes his illegal activities constitute a kind of mission. Carl's needs are not many, and he is happy as long as everything stays the way it's always been. The greater his shock and despair when his best mate Robert one day finds the woman of his life, and claims that pushing hashish may not necessarily be a future oriented occupation. The film aims at projecting a clear image of a society, of a way of thinking, and of a transformation, which serve as a backdrop for a universal story about friendship, love, and assuming responsibility for oneself and others. The script, based on Ingvar Ambjørnsen's cult slacker novel, is a dark comedy story with a crooked view on the époque where the dreamy 70s met the hard 80s.

This product was added to our catalog on Wednesday 21 December, 2011.

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