Forty-year-old Andreas arrives in a strange city with no memory of how he got there. He is presented with a job, an apartment – even a wife. But before long, Andreas notices that something is wrong. Andreas makes an attempt to escape the city, but he discovers there’s no way out. Andreas meets Hugo, who has found a crack in a wall in his cellar. Beautiful music streams out from the crack. Maybe it leads to “the other side”? A new plan for escape is hatched.

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Den brysomme mannen (2006)
  • Rating: (5,587 votes)
  • Runtime:95 minutes
  • Director: Jens Lien
  • Countries:Norway, Iceland
  • Actors:
    Andreas
    Trond Fausa Aurvaag
    Anne Britt
    Petronella Barker
    Hugo
    Per Schaaning
    Ingeborg
    Birgitte Larsen
    Håvard
    Johannes Joner
    Trulsen
    Ellen Horn
    Harald
    Anders T. Andersen
    Liten Mann
    Sigve Bøe
    Vigdis
    Hanne Lindbæk
    Kollega 1
    Ivar Lykke
  • Genres:Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
  • Producers:
    Carina Brattvik
    line producer  
    Bent Hamer
    consulting producer  
    Júlíus Kemp
    co-producer  
    Jørgen Storm Rosenberg
    executive producer  
    Jørgen Storm Rosenberg
    producer  
    Eric Vogel
    associate producer  
    Ingvar Þórðarson
    co-producer  
  • Plot: Forty-year-old Andreas arrives in a strange city with no memory of how he got there. He is presented with a job, an apartment - even a wife. But before long, Andreas notices that something is wrong. Andreas makes an attempt to escape the city, but he discovers there's no way out. Andreas meets Hugo, who has found a crack in a wall in his cellar. Beautiful music streams out from the crack. Maybe it leads to "the other side"? A new plan for escape is hatched. Written by Tordenfilm AS
Den brysomme mannen
  • User's comment:Superb and imaginative film with a singular vision by bobcrayhon

    One of the best films I've seen in a long time, precise in its vision, and beautiful and highly imaginative in its realization. I can't say much without giving it away, and I don't recommend you actually read that much about this movie before seeing--just see it.

    But ah, one must come up with ten lines of text to have a review listed on IMDb. Conundrum. What can I do? Tell you about the film? Nope. Can't do it. I think I enjoyed this movie precisely because saw it with no preconceptions. Please you do the same.

    I suppose this can be said: the acting is excellent and understated, and what I have come to love about foreign movies is that the movies are actually about the MOVIES, not the stars.


  • Also known as: No(r)way of Life (Belgium - English title), No(r)way of Life (Netherlands - informal literal title), The Bothersome Man (Canada - festival title, English title), The Bothersome Man (International - English title), Неуместный человек (Russia), A kiállhatatlan (Hungary), Anderland (Germany), El hombre disconforme (Argentina - festival title), El inadaptado (Argentina), Enas diaforetikos anthropos (Greece - transliterated ISO-LATIN-1 title), Klopotliwy czlowiek (Poland), Norway of Life (France), O Homem que Incomoda (Brazil - festival title), Tüütu mees (Estonia), Vandræðamaðurinn (Iceland),

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