presents
1001 Grams
A FILM BY BENT HAMER
Norway’s Submission to the Academy Awards
Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival 2014
Norway/Germany/France | 93 minutes | 2014 | In Norwegian and French with English
Subtitles
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Opens May 8, 2015 in New York
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Synopsis
When Norwegian scientist Marie attends a seminar in Paris on the actual weight of a kilo, it is
her own measurement of disappointment, grief and, not least, love, that ends up on the scale.
Finally Marie is forced to come to terms with how much a human life truly weighs and which
measurements she intends to live by.
Marie is a scientist who works in the Mass Department of the Norwegian Metrology Service
where her father Ernst is director. Marie's job is to travel around Norway inspecting postal
scales, gas pumps and other types of measuring devices so they can be certified. She has no
children, is stuck in a dead-end marriage, and has a very limited social life outside of work.
When Ernst surprisingly falls ill, Marie is asked to go to Paris to recalibrate the National
Norwegian kilo and take part in an international seminar where colleagues from around the
world discuss new ways of defining the actual weight of a kilo. In Paris she meets Pi, a former
scientist at the esteemed Bureau International des Poids et Mesures (where they keep the
kilogram known as “the mother of all kilos”), and through him the possibility of
love. Together Marie and Pi discover that old body measurements, well outside the precision
level they normally encounter at their respective institutes, have values of their own. When
the night has become morning, the romance between them deepens and reaches its physical
climax through a conversation about measurements that stem from the dimensions of the
human body, like foot, yard, inch, handbreadth and fathom.
As she explores her new possibilities, the film seems to unfurl beautifully, the way the first
real day of summer seems to spill over with promise and renewal.
About the Director
Bent Hamer is known and respected as one of Norway’s leading film directors, and one of the
nation’s true film auteurs. His debut feature Eggs won awards around the world as have his
subsequent critically acclaimed films: Water Easy Reach, Kitchen
Stories, Factotum, O'Horten, and Home for Christmas. Bent Hamer's films have been
screened at over 80 different international film festivals and distributed in more than 40
countries, making Hamer one of the internationally most viewed contemporary Norwegian
directors. His films are widely regarded as both characteristic, peculiar and stylistically
distinctive, yet still warm, caring, amusing and universal in the treatment of their characters
and themes, creating what (by some) has been dubbed a "Hamer-esque universe
Credits
Crew
Directed by…………………………………………………………………….Bent Hamer
Written by…………………………………………………………………...…Bent Hamer
Produced by………………………………………………………………...….Bent Hamer
Cinematography………………………………………………….………… John Christian
Film Editing…………………………………………………………..…….....Anders Refn
Sound………….……………………………..Ad Stoop, Jorg Kidrowski, Erwan Kerzanet
Composer…………………………………………………..……………..John Erik Kaada
Art Direction………………………………..…Astrid Astrup, Tim Pannen, Alain Guffroy
Costume Design……………………………………...……..Anne Pedersen, Olivier Ligen
Make-up Artist…………………………………………...………………………Eva Rygh
Sound Designer…………………………………………………...….Andreas Hildebrandt
Sound Mixer………………………………………..……………………….Petter Fladeby
Line Producer……………………………………………………..Catho Bach Christensen
Cast
Marie…………………………………………………………………...…...Ane Dahl Torp
Pi………………………………………………..………..……………..…Laurent Stocker
Wenche………………………………………………………………..……Hildegun Riise
Ernst Ernst ……………………………………………………………………Stein Winge
Moberg…………………………………………………………..…..Per Christian Ellefsen
Gerard………………………………………………………………….…..Didier Flamand
Customs officer…………………………………………………...……Dinara Droukarova