17 August 2011

The Norwegian International Film Festival Haugesund

Norwegian blond young women great us welcome to the film festival with the Norwegian flag in their arms and dressed in their local traditional clothings.




Two young men taking photos of 

the young women or pretending being journalists?



A statue depicting the Amanda Award in a bigger format.
The name "Amanda" is derived from a song, 
or sea shanty, titled "Amanda fra (from) Haugesund".
Supposedly the song in turn refers to a real woman 
from the 1920s a single mother who made a living 
from selling liquor to sailors during the prohibition period.

The entrance to the Festiviteten, "The Festivity"
where the prize ceremony is held.

Norwegian TV and radio, Norsk rikskringkasting AS

The Norwegian actor Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, being 
a member of the cast in the film Hodejegerne(in English Headhunters). 
In the leading role in this film we also can see Aksel Hennie 
an actor we had the pleasure see "live" at the third 
Norwegian Film Festival in Stockholm in 2009, 
when he and part of the crue introduced the film Max Manus.


This is another very special artist called Hariton Pushwagner.
He is a painter, categorized as pop artist. He has had
a very turbulent life, being a drug addict and having
lived as a homeless among other things.
He was recognized as young but a lot of events in 
his life lead him astray but now he is back and
has had the pleasure being "rediscovered" at the age 
of almost 70, today he is almost 71 years old.
We are great fans of him and I (Gunnar) adopted him as my father,
if only in my imagination. I didn't tell Pushwagner.

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