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Bent Hamer is a Director, Scriptwriter and Producer Norvegien born on 18 december 1956 at Sandefjord (Norvege)
Bent Hamer is a film director, writer and producer, born in Sandefjord, Norway in 1956.
In April 2004, Bent Hamer started shooting Factotum based on the novel of the same name by US poet and writer Charles Bukowski. The screenplay was written by Hamer and Jim Stark (Mystery Train, Cold Fever), who produced the film together with Christine Walker (American Splendor). The film premiered at the Kosmorama Film Festival in Trondheim, Norway, on 2005-04-12.
Hamer is the owner and founder of the BulBul Film Association, established in Oslo in 1994.
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Bent Hamer
Biography
Hamer studied film theory and literature at the University of Stockholm and the Stockholm Film School. In addition to his feature films, he has written and directed a number of short films and documentaries. His first film, Eggs, premiered at the 1995 Cannes Film Festival where it was shown in the Directors' Fortnight section. That same year, it was shown in competition at the 19th Moscow International Film Festival where it won the award for Best First Film; it also received the FIPRESCI Prize at the 1995 Toronto Film Festival. His 2003 film Kitchen Stories screened at many international festivals and was the Norwegian submission for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.In April 2004, Bent Hamer started shooting Factotum based on the novel of the same name by US poet and writer Charles Bukowski. The screenplay was written by Hamer and Jim Stark (Mystery Train, Cold Fever), who produced the film together with Christine Walker (American Splendor). The film premiered at the Kosmorama Film Festival in Trondheim, Norway, on 2005-04-12.
Hamer is the owner and founder of the BulBul Film Association, established in Oslo in 1994.
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Filmography of Bent Hamer (7 films)
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1001 Grams (2014)
, 1h33Directed by Bent Hamer
Origin Norvege
Genres Drama
Actors Ane Dahl Torp, Laurent Stocker, Didier Flamand, Dinara Droukarova, Sabine Pakora, Peter Hudson
Rating62%
Marie, en instance de divorce, travaille comme son père à l'institut de métrologie norvégien. Elle regarde défiler sa vie sans avoir de prise sur elle.
Home for Christmas (2010)
, 1h30Directed by Bent Hamer
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Themes Christmas films
Actors Trond Fausa Aurvåg, Patrick Mölleken, Nina Zanjani
Rating60%
Une petite ville de Norvège, le soir de Noël. Plusieurs personnages d’âge et d’horizons différents vont se croiser alors qu’ils essaient de regagner leur maison. Home for Christmas nous conte leur histoire entre humour et mélancolie, solitude et tendresse.
Home for Christmas (2010)
, 1h30Directed by Bent Hamer
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Actors Trond Fausa Aurvåg, Nina Zanjani
Rating60%
Dans une petite ville de Norvège, plusieurs personnages vont se croiser alors qu'ils rentrent chez eux le soir de Noël.
O'Horten (2007)
, 1h30Directed by Bent Hamer
Origin Norvege
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Actors Baard Owe, Espen Skjønberg, Ghita Nørby, Henny Moan, Bjørn Floberg, Lars Øyno
Rating66%
Odd Horten is an overly cautious 67-year-old man about to retire after forty years as a train driver on the route between Oslo and Bergen. As he awakes, he goes through a meticulous daily routine, as he prepares for his second-to-last time driving the train to Bergen. When he gets there, he makes small talk with Svea, who owns the boarding house where he stays when there and whom he now may never see again.
Factotum (2005)
, 1h34Directed by Bent Hamer
Origin Norvege
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romance
Themes Films about alcoholism, Films about writers, Medical-themed films, Films about drugs
Actors Matt Dillon, Lili Taylor, Marisa Tomei, Fisher Stevens, Didier Flamand, Adrienne Shelly
Rating65%
Bukowski's picaresque novel, also titled Factotum, was published in 1975. The book and the film both center on the character of Henry Chinaski, Bukowski’s alter ego, who appears in much of his fiction. Although events in the book take place in Los Angeles in the 1940s, the setting of the film is contemporary.
Kitchen Stories (2003)
, 1h35Directed by Bent Hamer
Origin Norvege
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Action
Themes Cooking films
Actors Bjørn Floberg, Reine Brynolfsson, Sverre Anker Ousdal, Leif Andrée, Lennart Jähkel, Trond Brænne
Rating72%
Swedish efficiency researchers come to Norway for a study of Norwegian men, to optimize their use of their kitchen. Folke Nilsson (Tomas Norström) is assigned to study the habits of Isak Bjørvik (Joachim Calmeyer). By the rules of the research institute, Folke has to sit on an umpire's chair in Isak's kitchen and observe him from there, but never talk to him. Isak stops using his kitchen and observes Folke through a hole in the ceiling instead. However, the two lonely men slowly overcome the initial post-war Norwegian-Swede distrust and become friends.
Eggs (1995)
, 1h26Directed by Bent Hamer
Origin Norvege
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Actors Leif Andrée
Rating66%
Two old brothers, Moe and Pa, have lived together for their whole life and are content with their daily and weekly routine. This is disturbed later by the arrival of Pa's grown-up and disabled son Konrad, whose existence (due to a two-day trip of Pa to Småland, the only time Pa and Moe were separated) was unknown to Moe. The weirdness of Konrad and the jealousy of Moe and Konrad then disturb the routine, and Moe leaves home in the end.
Scriptwriter
1001 Grams (2014)
, 1h33Directed by Bent Hamer
Origin Norvege
Genres Drama
Actors Ane Dahl Torp, Laurent Stocker, Didier Flamand, Dinara Droukarova, Sabine Pakora, Peter Hudson
Roles Writer
Rating62%
Marie, en instance de divorce, travaille comme son père à l'institut de métrologie norvégien. Elle regarde défiler sa vie sans avoir de prise sur elle.
Home for Christmas (2010)
, 1h30Directed by Bent Hamer
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Themes Christmas films
Actors Trond Fausa Aurvåg, Patrick Mölleken, Nina Zanjani
Rating60%
Une petite ville de Norvège, le soir de Noël. Plusieurs personnages d’âge et d’horizons différents vont se croiser alors qu’ils essaient de regagner leur maison. Home for Christmas nous conte leur histoire entre humour et mélancolie, solitude et tendresse.
Home for Christmas (2010)
, 1h30Directed by Bent Hamer
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Actors Trond Fausa Aurvåg, Nina Zanjani
Rating60%
Dans une petite ville de Norvège, plusieurs personnages vont se croiser alors qu'ils rentrent chez eux le soir de Noël.
O'Horten (2007)
, 1h30Directed by Bent Hamer
Origin Norvege
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Actors Baard Owe, Espen Skjønberg, Ghita Nørby, Henny Moan, Bjørn Floberg, Lars Øyno
Rating66%
Odd Horten is an overly cautious 67-year-old man about to retire after forty years as a train driver on the route between Oslo and Bergen. As he awakes, he goes through a meticulous daily routine, as he prepares for his second-to-last time driving the train to Bergen. When he gets there, he makes small talk with Svea, who owns the boarding house where he stays when there and whom he now may never see again.
Factotum (2005)
, 1h34Directed by Bent Hamer
Origin Norvege
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romance
Themes Films about alcoholism, Films about writers, Medical-themed films, Films about drugs
Actors Matt Dillon, Lili Taylor, Marisa Tomei, Fisher Stevens, Didier Flamand, Adrienne Shelly
Roles Writer
Rating65%
Bukowski's picaresque novel, also titled Factotum, was published in 1975. The book and the film both center on the character of Henry Chinaski, Bukowski’s alter ego, who appears in much of his fiction. Although events in the book take place in Los Angeles in the 1940s, the setting of the film is contemporary.
Kitchen Stories (2003)
, 1h35Directed by Bent Hamer
Origin Norvege
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Action
Themes Cooking films
Actors Bjørn Floberg, Reine Brynolfsson, Sverre Anker Ousdal, Leif Andrée, Lennart Jähkel, Trond Brænne
Rating72%
Swedish efficiency researchers come to Norway for a study of Norwegian men, to optimize their use of their kitchen. Folke Nilsson (Tomas Norström) is assigned to study the habits of Isak Bjørvik (Joachim Calmeyer). By the rules of the research institute, Folke has to sit on an umpire's chair in Isak's kitchen and observe him from there, but never talk to him. Isak stops using his kitchen and observes Folke through a hole in the ceiling instead. However, the two lonely men slowly overcome the initial post-war Norwegian-Swede distrust and become friends.
Eggs (1995)
, 1h26Directed by Bent Hamer
Origin Norvege
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Actors Leif Andrée
Roles Writer
Rating66%
Two old brothers, Moe and Pa, have lived together for their whole life and are content with their daily and weekly routine. This is disturbed later by the arrival of Pa's grown-up and disabled son Konrad, whose existence (due to a two-day trip of Pa to Småland, the only time Pa and Moe were separated) was unknown to Moe. The weirdness of Konrad and the jealousy of Moe and Konrad then disturb the routine, and Moe leaves home in the end.
Producer
1001 Grams (2014)
, 1h33Directed by Bent Hamer
Origin Norvege
Genres Drama
Actors Ane Dahl Torp, Laurent Stocker, Didier Flamand, Dinara Droukarova, Sabine Pakora, Peter Hudson
Roles Producer
Rating62%
Marie, en instance de divorce, travaille comme son père à l'institut de métrologie norvégien. Elle regarde défiler sa vie sans avoir de prise sur elle.