Project Detail

Aberdeen

Synopsis

A rare UK-Norwegian collaboration, Aberdeen reunites actor Stellan Skarsgard with Hans Petter Moland, the acclaimed writer-director of their much admired 1996 feature Zero Kelvin. An emotional road movie, it co-stars Lena Headey as a young lawyer reluctantly fulfilling her ailing mother's request that she bring her alcoholic father back from Oslo to the Scottish oil industry capital of Aberdeen. Her intention is to enrol him in a rehab programme, but en route they are both forced to re-examine their relationship and the reasons for their trip.

'It's a very tough and exceptionally unsentimental account of the bond that develops between the daughter and the father during their journey,' explains co-producer John McGrath. 'When I read it I loved the characters, the quality of the writing and the fact it was set in Scotland. It felt a very natural co-production project rather than some Euro-pudding and it actually reactivates a long dormant UK-Norway co-production treaty.'

Details

Year: 2000
Type of project: Features
Running time: 105 mins
Format: 35mm
Director: Hans Petter Moland
Producer: John McGrath
Co-Producer: John McGrath
Executive Producer: Tom Remlov
Editor: Sophie Hesselberg
Screenwriter: Hans Petter Moland
Director of Photography: Philip Ogaard
Production Designer: Janusz Sosnowski
Composer: Zbigniew Preisner
Principal cast: Ian Hart, Charlotte Rampling, Stellan Skarsgaard, Lena Headey.

Genre

Scottish Drama

Production Status

Complete

Production Company

Freeway Films

67 George Street
Edinburgh EH2 2JG
UK

T 00 44 (0) 131 225 3200

Sales Company

Trust Film Sales

T 00 45 3686 8788

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