Hodet over vannet (1993)
- Directed by
- Nils Gaup
- Genre
- comedy film, crime film, thriller film, black comedy film
- Country
- Norway
- Runtime
- 1h 31m
- Rated
- 16
- Rating
- 6.0 of 10 from 25 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
A Norwegian comedy thriller about a man whose holiday is disrupted when a dead body appears at his remote lakeside cabin. He and his wife try to hide the body, leading to increasingly chaotic misunderstandings with neighbors and the police.
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What happens
Hodet over vannet is a Norwegian comedy thriller film by director Nils Gaup. It became a big success at the Norwegian box office. In 1993, it was one of the ten most seen films in Norwegian movie theaters. In the year after, 1994, it won the Amanda Award for Best Norwegian Film in Theatrical Release. It is a production of the company Filmkameratene A/S. In 1996, an American remake of the film was released, which starred Cameron Diaz and Harvey Keitel. It was filmed at Yxnøy on Østerøya (East Island) in Sandefjord, Norway. It is inspired by Steven Spielberg's Jaws and various Alfred Hitchcock films. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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