Mar 16, 2001
89 min
Full-HD

Elling (2001)

40-year-old Elling, sensitive, would-be poet, is sent to live in a state institution when his mother, who has sheltered him his entire life, dies. There he meets Kjell Bjarne, a gentle giant and female-obsessed virgin, also in his 40s.

Category

Comedy Drama

Country

Norway

Companies

Maipo Film

Per Christian Ellefsen

Elling

Sven Nordin

Kjell Bjarne

Marit Pia Jacobsen

Reidun Nordsletten

Jørgen Langhelle

Frank Åsli

Per Christensen

Alfons Jørgensen

Hilde Olausson

Gunn

Ola Otnes

Hauger

Eli Anne Linnestad

Johanne

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