materie 2004* - Norsk filminstitutt

THRILLER | 78 MIN | COLOUR | SCOPE |
4 REELS | DOLBY SR•D
DIRECTOR: PATRIK SYVERSEN
SCREENPLAY: NINI BULL ROBSAHM, PATRIK SYVERSEN
DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY: HÅVARD BYRKJELAND
PRODUCER: TORLEIF HAUGE FOR FENDER FILM AS
CAST: HENRIETTE BRUSGAARD, NINI BULL ROBSAHM, LASSE
VALDAL, JØRN- BJØRN FULLER-GEE
RELEASE DATE: JANUARY 11, 2008
NORWEGIAN DISTRIBUTOR: EUFORIA
CONTACT: FENDER FILM AS, KONGLEVEIEN 18, N-0875 OSLO
TEL: +47 90 10 80 80,
MAIL: torleif@fenderfilm.no, www.fenderfilm.no
26 NORWEGIAN FILMS 2008
ROVDYR
BACKWOODS
The summer of 1974. Four young people; Camilla, her boyfriend Roger and the siblings Mia and
Jørgen, are on their way to a relaxing long weekend in the woods. They drive through the wilderness,
it's a long car ride, and tensions between the four of them are surfacing. During a break
at a remote roadside café, the four youngsters provoke some of the locals.When leaving the café,
the gang picks up an unknown hich hiker. They have not been driving very far when the hitch hiker
wants them to pull over. She appears to be frightened. There's somebody out there. Somebody
who is after them. Suddenly, the four of them are knocked unconscious, and carried off. Soon after,
they wake up deep inside the forest. There's no one in sight. Then they hear the sound of a
hunting horn. Someone's conducting a gruesome chase. And they are the prey.
Backwoods is Patrik Syversen's feature film debut. He is a typical film fanatic,
and loves horror film just as much as character drama. He combines the two in
this character-driven horror film. He graduated from Oslo Film and TV
Academy, and has formerly made the novella film Elsewhere, among others, in
collaboration with Nini Bull Robsahm.