Cabin Fever (2000 film)
Encyclopedia
Cabin Fever is a 2000 Norwegian
drama film
written and directed by Mona J. Hoel, starring Svein Scharffenberg and Gørild Mauseth
. It was the first attempt in Norway at a Dogme
film. The film portrays an extended family vacationing together in a cabin in the mountains, and the internal conflicts that emerge.
Norway
Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...
drama film
Drama film
A drama film is a film genre that depends mostly on in-depth development of realistic characters dealing with emotional themes. Dramatic themes such as alcoholism, drug addiction, infidelity, moral dilemmas, racial prejudice, religious intolerance, poverty, class divisions, violence against women...
written and directed by Mona J. Hoel, starring Svein Scharffenberg and Gørild Mauseth
Gørild Mauseth
Gørild Mauseth is a Norwegian actress. After graduating from the Norwegian National Academy of Theatre, she has worked at both Den Nationale Scene and Nationaltheatret . She is best known for her movie and television roles, that include "Deadline Torp" and Når mørket er forbi...
. It was the first attempt in Norway at a Dogme
Dogme 95
Dogme 95 was an avant-garde filmmaking movement started in 1995 by the Danish directors Lars von Trier and Thomas Vinterberg, who created the "Dogme 95 Manifesto" and the "Vow of Chastity". These were rules to create filmmaking based on the traditional values of story, acting, and theme, and...
film. The film portrays an extended family vacationing together in a cabin in the mountains, and the internal conflicts that emerge.
External links
- Cabin Fever at the Norwegian Film Institute