Lilyhammer
| Lilyhammer | |
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Lilyhammer poster
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| Genre |
Crime Comedy-drama |
| Created by | Anne Bjørnstad Eilif Skodvin |
| Written by | Anne Bjørnstad Eilif Skodvin Steven Van Zandt |
| Directed by | Simen Alsvik Geir Henning Hopland Lisa Marie Gamlem Ole Endresen Øystein Karlsen Tuva Novotny Steven Van Zandt |
| Starring |
Steven Van Zandt Trond Fausa Aurvåg Steinar Sagen Marian Saastad Ottesen Sven Nordin Kyrre Hellum Anne Krigsvoll |
| Opening theme | "Lilyhammer" |
| Composer(s) | Frans Bak |
| Country of origin | Norway |
| Original language(s) | English Norwegian |
| No. of seasons | 3 |
| No. of episodes | 24 (list of episodes) |
| Production | |
| Executive producer(s) | Steven Van Zandt Lasse Hallberg |
| Producer(s) | Agnete Thuland Trond Berg-Nilsen Anders Tangen |
| Location(s) |
Lillehammer New York metro area Rio de Janeiro |
| Cinematography | Johan-Fredrik Bødtker Jakob Ingimundarson |
| Running time | 43-58 minutes |
| Production company(s) | Rubicon TV Renegade TV |
| Distributor |
NRK (Norway) Netflix (United States) Red Arrow International (Worldwide) |
| Release | |
| Original network |
NRK1 Netflix |
| Picture format | 1080i (16:9 HDTV) |
| Audio format | Dolby Digital 5.1 |
| First shown in | Norway |
| Original release | 25 January 2012 – 17 December 2014 |
| External links | |
| Website | |
Lilyhammer is a Norwegian-American television series, starring Steven Van Zandt, about a fictional "former" New York-based gangster, Frank "The Fixer" Tagliano, trying to start a new life in isolated Lillehammer, Norway. The first season premiered on Norwegian NRK1 on 25 January 2012 with a record audience of 998,000 viewers (one fifth of Norway's population), and premiered on Netflix in North America on 6 February 2012, with all eight episodes available in full for streaming on the service.Lilyhammer was promoted as "the first time Netflix offered exclusive content". The spelling of the series title alludes to Lily—Tagliano's dog—killed in the first episode during an attempt on Tagliano's life, and the way Frank and some other anglophones pronounce the town's name. The series produced three seasons, with the so far final episode airing 17 December 2014. On 22 July 2015, Steven van Zandt posted on Twitter that the series had been cancelled, and the following day Netflix confirmed that they were pulling out of the series. NRK, which owns the rights to the series, remained optimistic that a deal could be made with another company for a fourth season.
Frank Tagliano (Steven Van Zandt), a former underboss in an American Mafia crime family, is placed in the Federal Witness Protection Program after testifying in a trial against Aldo Delucci (Thomas Grube), the new Mafia head who had ordered a hit on him after succeeding his recently deceased brother, Sally Boy Delucci. Frank requests that he be relocated to Lillehammer, where he believes no one will look for him. His new identity is Norwegian-American immigrant Giovanni "Johnny" Henriksen. On a train journey from Oslo to Lillehammer, Johnny impresses teacher Sigrid Haugli (Marian Saastad Ottesen), her son Jonas (Mikael Aksnes-Pehrson), and a man who later turns out to be a civil supervisor. Johnny befriends the Hauglis after doing them a favor, and sometime later, after he and Sigrid spend the night together, Sigrid learns she is pregnant with his twins.
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