Wednesday, August 02, 2006

Movie Stars

Most of you have heard me say random things about movies I've watched and translated at work, so this entry is to tell you about some of them...

The other day I noticed that two characters looked rather similar and hey both are Swedish, check it out.

Graveyard Island (Kyrkogårdsön) - Sweden, 2004
This is an action movie set in the 80s and these kids try to figure out what is going on the island, in the abandoned fort across the lake. There's Russians, spies and secrets...


This is Henrik and Oskar. Sorry it's so small, it's the biggest photo I could find. Visit their website and watch the trailer and look at photos, you might need to learn some Swedish first though.

Franz and the Maestro (BLAND TISTLAR) - Sweden, 2006
Not one of my favourite movies, watching it, I almost fell asleep...at work.. Anyway, the animation is hilarious and it's in Swedish, which automatically makes it funny. It's about Franz who wants to play an instrument but his dad, the Maestro at a band camp. Things sort of happen.
This is Franz.

Doesn't he look like Oskar?

And just for the sake of animation:


Other movies...Der Raeuber Hotzenplotz



Just finished this one this morning. It's about 2 kids getting back Grandmother's coffee grinder.

That's all for now. When I remember some more movies I'll share them with you. Perhaps next week will feature some Danish movies.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

is there a reason that kid is wearing a giant ring?

-inna

Anonymous said...

i hope they got their grandfather's coffee grinder back quickly!!! COFFEE!!!!

Anonymous said...

wow.