OKKAR EIGIN OSLÓ
Our Own Oslo
by Reynir Lyngdal
Iceland 2011

Scene from OKKAR EIGIN OSLÓ

On a business trip to Oslo, the smart engineer Harald is witness to a heated argument in the foyer of the hotel during a break in the conference. The concierge does not believe that the two women, who are complaining that they are “thrown out everywhere”, are hotel guests at all. Then the blonde one of the pair suffers a sudden attack of faintness and is sick all over Harald's white business shirt. Harald accompanies her with her dark-haired colleague to their hotel room and places her in a stable recovery position. Her friend, Vilborg is her name, thanks him. With his good manners, he declines her offer to pay the cleaning bill for his shirt. She asks him what his room number is  - and with a dinner date, a romance begins between a single mother with a 12-year-old son and the smart “Mr. Fix It”, as she will later call him. Harald is a well-meaning but naïve person who always wants to please every one. Of course he has found just the right person in this woman, who seems to be permanently wound up. She lurches from one mess to the next. First her car is towed away from in front of the hotel. Then she loses her job at the Bank of Iceland because she has given herself a rather large credit. So her motto is: first to scream and run away from things. Harald's offer to go with him to his summer house on Iceland seems just the right thing. But this is just the beginning of their problems. Vilborg would like to bring her son, Kolbeinn with her. He in turn cannot stand Harald and arranges for his father, Palmi to turn up as well at the cottage in the wonderful Icelandic landscape by the sea. In a few days the harvest festival is going to take place, and it is important to Harald, in his capacity as chairman of SAHOO, the Icelandic summer house association (a job that he takes seriously, right down to the caretaker details) that this goes well. But until then, all kinds of old and new relationship problems and awkward alliances of the summer guests in the cottage have to be discussed, argued about, cried over and resolved before a happy-end is reached after all, in this intelligently and entertainingly staged comedy full of black humour and witty dialogue, which has already become the cinema hit of the year in Iceland.



- Opening Film -

- International Premiere at the festival -

Mannheim Screening Dates

Heidelberg Screening Dates