The Professor and the Story of the Origami Girl

Jun 10, 2005

0h 51m

★ 5.8

Overview

A director feels he is about to lose himself to the market forces and thinks that the only way he can protest is by making a political film. He contacts Thomas Hylland Eriksen, who will become his mouthpiece and articulate what is wrong. But along the way the director becomes distracted by another person, a young, fumbling girl reminiscent of himself.

Genres

Drama

Production Companies

Mikrofilm

Motlys

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Cast

Origamijenta

Henriette Steenstrup

The Director

Jan Gunnar Røise

Thomas Hylland Eriksen

Anders

Thorbjørn Harr

The Sister

Linn Skåber

Eva Larsen

Silje Torp

The Fortune Lady

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