O'Horten
By: a Sony Pictures Classics release, Bulbul Film presents a film by Bent Hamer ; produced by Bent Hamer ; written and directed by Bent Hamer
Contributors: Owe, Baard, 1936-; Skjønberg, Espen, 1924-; Nørby, Ghita; Moan, Henny; Floberg, Bjørn, 1947-; Kaada, 1975-; Sony Pictures Classics (Firm); BulBul Film; Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (Firm)
Publisher: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Culver City, Calif
Language: nor
Format: [videorecording] /
Number of pages: 90
ISBN-13: 9781435968868
Subjects: Drama; Pipe smokers; Retirement age; Foreign films; Norwegian Motion pictures; Railroad conductors; Leisure
Description: Odd Horten is a neat, meticulous, pipe-smoking train conductor. He is winding up 40 years of service for the Norwegian railways. He wonders, when a man's life has been determined by timetables and clearly-defined journeys along narrow tracks, how he will now spend his free hours. Horten goes about his final work shifts and then enters into the uncertain world of retirement. He meets the dilemma of buying a new pipe using the same placid curiosity he brings to meeting a stranger who invites him to his home.
Notes: DVD release of the 2007 motion picture.

Special features: interview with director Bent Hamer and composer John Erik Kaada.

Director of photography, John Christian Rosenlund ; editor, Pål Gengenbach ; composer, Kaada.

Bård Owe, Espen Skjønberg, Ghita Nørby, Henny Moan, Bjørn Floberg.

MPAA rating: PG-13; for brief nudity.

DVD ; anamorphic widescreen (1.85:1) presentation ; Dolby digital 5.1 surround.

In Norwegian, with optional subtitles in English or French.