Aberdeen
Synopsis
A rare UK-Norwegian collaboration, Aberdeen reunites actor Stellan Skarsgard with Hans Petter Moland, the acclaimed writer-director of their much admired 1996 feature Zero Kelvin. An emotional road movie, it co-stars Lena Headey as a young lawyer reluctantly fulfilling her ailing mother's request that she bring her alcoholic father back from Oslo to the Scottish oil industry capital of Aberdeen. Her intention is to enrol him in a rehab programme, but en route they are both forced to re-examine their relationship and the reasons for their trip.
'It's a very tough and exceptionally unsentimental account of the bond that develops between the daughter and the father during their journey,' explains co-producer John McGrath. 'When I read it I loved the characters, the quality of the writing and the fact it was set in Scotland. It felt a very natural co-production project rather than some Euro-pudding and it actually reactivates a long dormant UK-Norway co-production treaty.'
Details
- Year
- 2000
- Type of film
- Features
- Running Time
- 105 mins
- Format
- 35mm
- Director
- Hans Petter Moland
- Producer
- John McGrath
- Co-Producer
- John McGrath
- Executive Producer
- Tom Remlov
- Editor
- Sophie Hesselberg
- Screenwriter
- Hans Petter Moland
- Director of Photography
- Philip Ogaard
- Production Designer
- Janusz Sosnowski
- Music
- Zbigniew Preisner
- Principal Cast
- Ian Hart, Charlotte Rampling, Stellan Skarsgaard, Lena Headey.
Production status
Complete
Please let us know if we need to make any amendments to this Film entry mailing us directly at
Last updated 24th June 2005
