materie 2004* - Norsk filminstitutt

MANN KVINNE KAFFE
MAN WOMAN COFFEE
75 MIN | COLOUR | 1:1,85 | STEREO
DIRECTOR: CARL EUGEN JOHANNESSEN
DIRECTORS OF PHOTOGRAPHY: CARL EUGEN
JOHANNESSEN, ERLEND HAARR ERIKSSON
PRODUCER: ELIN SANDER FOR FILMKOLLEKTIVET AS
RELEASE DATE: NOVEMBER 9. 2007
NORWEGIAN DISTRIBUTOR: ORO FILM AS
CONTACT: FILMKOLLEKTIVET AS, VASKERELVEN 8,
N-5011 BERGEN, TEL: +47 55 32 74 08,
MAIL: elin@filmkollektivet.no, www.filmkollektivet.no
40 NORWEGIAN FILMS 2008
A man has left his wife and two children and crashed his plane into a skyscraper in Milan. A
woman on the pier in Rimini dreams of children, but has lost faith in love. An abandoned
mother of two in Naples wonders whether women's liberation has destroyed the relationship
between man and woman.
On a journey through an Italian landscape marked by disillusion and broken dreams, a
Norwegian man follows the trail from his childhood in a search for love and happiness. Man
Woman Coffee is a poetic road movie about hope, passion and a life that doesn´t always take the
direction we wish for – but also about the art of truly appreciating a cup of freshly ground coffee.
Carl E. Johannessen (born 1963) works as director, editor and scriptwriter in
the newly established Filmkollektivet in Bergen. He is educated in film editing
from the National Norwegian Film School in Lillehammer, and has previously
directed the short films Closer to Hong Kong (1998) and Wild Salmon (2003).
Man Woman Coffee is his feature-length debut.