Odd Little Man

Odd Little Man
Odd Little Man
Directed by	Stein Leikanger
Written by	Stein Leikanger ; Odd Børretzen
Cinematography	John Christian Rosenlund
Edited by	Sophie Hesselberg
Music by	Randall Meyers
Production; companies	Egmont Entertainment A/S; Nordic Screen Production AS
Distributed by	Park Junior ; Egmont Entertainment; Egmont Film
Release date	1 September 2000;
Running time	88 minutes
Country	Norway
Language	Norwegian
Box office	$0.3 million

Odd Little Man (Norwegian title: Da jeg traff Jesus... med sprettert) is a Norwegian family movie from 2000, directed by Stein Leikanger, based on one of the biographic memoirs of Odd Børretzen. The title of the movie is a Norwegian pun: the first part of the Norwegian title means "When I met Jesus", and the second part means "...with a slingshot", thus changing the meaning of the title to "When I hit Jesus ... with a slingshot", as the word 'traff' can mean 'hit' or 'met' depending on the context. The English titles makes use of the coincidence that Børretzen's Norwegian first name has another meaning in English.

This movie was a critical failure^[2] but became the Norwegian entry to the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 2001.

References

↑ Buddrus, Petra (1 September 2000). "Norway finally gets local hit". Screen International. p. 31.
1 2 Buddrus, Petra (29 September 2000). "Faithless falters against other local product". Screen International. p. 31. Retrieved 26 April 2024.

External links

Odd Little Man at IMDb

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[1] Buddrus, Petra (1 September 2000). "Norway finally gets local hit". Screen International. p. 31.

[gross-2] 1 2 Buddrus, Petra (29 September 2000). "Faithless falters against other local product". Screen International. p. 31. Retrieved 26 April 2024.

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