Björn Andrésen
Several friends travel to Sweden to study as anthropologists a summer festival that is held every ninety years in the remote hometown of one of them. What begins as a dream vacation in a place where the sun never sets, gradually turns into a dark nightmare as the mysterious inhabitants invite them to participate in their disturbing festive activities.
The Hotel is the last part of a trilogy about travelling. The first two were The Atlantic (Atlanten, 1995) and The Lighthouse (Fyren, 2000). The hotel is a different kind of home. It can be a refuge, cul-de-sac, castle, nightmare, creative space...The first hotel was created as protection against the elements. Weary travellers could find shelter and rest. But it was also a place for legends and anecdotes.
Wanting to know the ways of people, a pelican turns into a gawky young man who soon learns to speak, thanks to his outstanding talent in imitation. He befriends Emil and Elsa, two children who--unlike adults--see that their new neighbor "Mr Berd" is not human but a big bird wearing a suit. The Pelican Man lands a job at the opera and falls in love with a pretty ballerina, looking so much like a bird herself. Troubles start when adults too find out about "Mr Berd's" ornithological origin.
Lucifer Sensommer Gult og Sort is a Norwegian drama film from 1990 with Björn Andrésen and Annie Krogstad in the lead roles. Directed and screenplay is by Roar Skolmen . Set in late summer along the southern Norwegian coast . A blond Swede goes ashore from a small boat , and joins a handsome Norwegian teenage girl, very young and alluring . The Swede will eventually skip all common sense because of her erotic games . Lucifer was consistently met with bad reviews . VG reviewer slaughtered film and gave the dice one stating " Lucifer Sensommer Gult og Sort is a horrible film . Freezing humorless , ridiculous and pretentious , pompous slimy , kitsch far above the breaking point. A palpable and malignant pedophile tendency does that in addition becomes incredibly angry . "
Whatever became of the actor director Luchino Visconti famously cast as young Tadzio in "Death in Venice"? Documentary filmmaker Etienne Faure goes looking in this short film first presented at Cannes.
On a hot August day, Harry Friberg gets an urgent assignment: to photograph United Air's shining new floatplane at the Lindarängen air harbor in Stockholm. The evening's crayfish party to celebrate the acquisition turns out uniquely unpleasant - and when the manger totals his car, and the chief pilot crashes into the sea after take-off, Harry realizes that a horrible crime has been committed, and it's time to call police commissioner Vesper Johnson.
The feeble-minded Sven's mother dies and he gets work as a farm-hand at the rich, affluent Höglund's farm. He has to work without pay and sleeps together with the cows. He meets the disabled Anna who is the first one to treat him as an adult. One day he has had enough of Höglund's maltreatment and moves in with Anna's family. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.
It is 1957. A young student is unhappy at school, play hooky frequently and devotes himself to his great interest in music. Together with his girlfriend and other friends he lives a bohemian life in anticipation of becoming an adult.
Composer Gustav von Aschenbach, travels to Venice for health reasons. There, he becomes obsessed with the stunning beauty of an adolescent Polish boy named Tadzio who is staying with his family at the same Grand Hôtel des Bains on the Lido as Aschenbach.
The youngsters puppy love is set against a backdrop of adults that struggle with their own lives. Her fathers feeling of misery and failure at work, her aunts unhappiness as an unmarried woman without kids of her own. His father work at the paintshop-business and his worries about the mentally ill grandfather. Against the adults the young couples love is so sweet and sensual, so innocent and beautiful. As a couple in love, they don't care about anything but themselves and seems totally unaware about everything that surrounds them.
In 1971, due to the world premiere of Death in Venice, Italian director Lucino Visconti proclaimed his Tadzio as the world’s most beautiful boy. A shadow that today, 50 years later, weighs Björn Andresen’s life.
