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

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.

fast-pacedfunnytensedarkly comiccleversuspensefullightheartedquirky

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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