Zero Kelvin | |
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Directed by | Hans Petter Moland |
Produced by | Esben Høilund Carlsen |
Written by | Lars Bill Lundholm |
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Music by | Terje Rypdal |
Cinematography | Philip Øgaard |
Edited by | Einar Egeland |
Release date
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1995 |
Running time
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118 min (113 min in USA) |
Country | Norway |
Language | Norwegian |
Zero Kelvin (Norwegian: Kjærlighetens kjøtere) is a 1995 Norwegian film starring Stellan Skarsgård, an actor known to English-speaking audiences from his roles in such films as Good Will Hunting.
In 1920s Oslo, Henrik Larsen (Gard B. Eidsvold), an aspiring poet, leaves his girlfriend (Camilla Martens) to spend a year as a trapper in Greenland, where he is teamed with a sailor (Stellan Skarsgård) and a scientist (Bjørn Sundquist). The men are trapped in a tiny hut, as the arctic winter sets in, and a complex and intense love/hate relationship develops between the poet and the sailor - both who are more similar to one another than either would like to admit. Their conflict plays out in isolation amidst stunningly bleak arctic scenery, filmed in Svalbard.