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The Bothersome Man

By Jens Lien

2006

Comedy

1h35

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9.0/10

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3.6/5

Press

3.2/5

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Synopsis

Forty-year-old Andreas arrives in a strange city with no memory of how he got there. He is presented with a job, an apartment - even a wife. But before long, Andreas notices that something is wrong. Andreas makes an attempt to escape the city, but he discovers there's no way out. Andreas meets Hugo, who has found a crack in a wall in his cellar. Beautiful music streams out from the crack. Maybe it leads to "the other side"? A new plan for escape is hatched.

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Reviews and Comments

1 reviews
Bill Montgomery
Billrated ★ 10/10
July 23, 2025

What if you went to heaven but hated it? This film puts an afterlife perspective on how social norms can make us feel dissonance with our own values. Everybody else seems to be happy. What's wrong with us? And maybe they're right. But then we catch that glimpse of home.

Casting

Jens Lien

Jens Lien

Director

Trond Fausa Aurvåg

Trond Fausa Aurvåg

Andreas

Petronella Barker

Petronella Barker

Anne Britt

Birgitte Larsen

Birgitte Larsen

Ingeborg

PE

Per Schaaning

Hugo

IV

Ivar Lykke

Kollega 1

SI

Sigve Bøe

Liten mann

HA

Hanne Lindbæk

Vigdis

JO

Johannes Joner

Havard

EL

Ellen Horn

Trulsen

AN

Anders T. Andersen

Harald

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