Mannen som elsket Yngve (The Man Who Loved Yngve) is a Norwegian film released on 15 February 2008. It is based on a book of the same name by Stavanger

Stavanger

Stavanger is a city and municipality in the county of Rogaland, Norway.Stavanger municipality has a population of 126,469. There are 197,852 people living in the Stavanger conurbation, making Stavanger the fourth largest city, but the third largest urban area, in Norway...

 author Tore Renberg

Tore Renberg

Tore Renberg made his literary debut in 1995 with the collection of short prose Sovende floke for which he won the prestigious Tarjei Vesaas' Debutant Prize. Since then he has written several novels and children's books, one collection of prose and made one book of collages...

. It received critical acclaim as one of the best Norwegian movies of the year.

Plot

In 1989, and in the shadow of the collapse of Communism in Europe, a group of young rural Norwegians form a band. Preparations for their first gig are derailed when the lead singer, Jarle, is smitten by a new arrival, Yngve. Confused and not completely in touch with his own emotions, Jarle neglects his band, his mother and his girlfriend to spend more time with his new crush. At a party after the concert, he lashes out at Yngve but also admits he loves him. Yngve becomes depressed and flees to a bridge with the intention of committing suicide, but decides not to. He ends up in a mental hospital, and stays there until Jarle sees him again, few weeks after the incident.

Production details

• Production Company: Motlys A/S
• Producer: Yngve Sæther
• Writer: Tore Renberg
  Tore Renberg
  Tore Renberg made his literary debut in 1995 with the collection of short prose Sovende floke for which he won the prestigious Tarjei Vesaas' Debutant Prize. Since then he has written several novels and children's books, one collection of prose and made one book of collages...
  
  
• Distributor: Sandrew Metronome
  Sandrew Metronome
  Sandrew Metronome is a Scandinavian film distributor. It is one of the biggest distributor companies in the Nordic countries. It is owned by the Anders Sandrew Foundation and the Norwegian Schibsted group....
  
  
• Filming start date: 12.02.07
• Filming end date 30.03.07
• Director: Stian Kristiansen
• Music: Kaada and Geir Zahl
  Geir Zahl
  Geir Zahl is a Norwegian musician. He is known for playing guitar in the Norwegian rock group Kaizers Orchestra. The band was founded by Geir Zahl and Janove Ottesen who had both played together in some other bands, namely Blod, snått & juling and gnom...
  
  
• Budget: 15.5 million NKR
  Norwegian krone
  The krone is the currency of Norway and its dependent territories. The plural form is kroner . It is subdivided into 100 øre. The ISO 4217 code is NOK, although the common local abbreviation is kr. The name translates into English as "crown"...
  
  

Cast

• Jarle - Rolf Kristian Larsen
  Rolf Kristian Larsen
  Rolf Kristian Larsen is an actor from Stavanger in Norway.He portrayed the character "Morten-Tobias" in the Norwegian film "Fritt Vilt" in 2006. He also starred in the film "Mannen som elsket Yngve" , released in February 2008...
  
  
• Helge - Arthur Berning
• Yngve - Ole Christoffer Ertvaag
• Katrine - Ida Elise Broch
• Oljeungen - Erlend Stene
• Jarle's father - Jørgen Langhelle
  Jørgen Langhelle
  Jørgen Langhelle is an Award-winning leading Norwegian actor of stage, screen and television.Langhelle has starred in the two successful Norwegian mini-series Deadline Torp and Torpedo , as well as starring in such movies as Kristin Lavransdatter , Elling , I Am Dina , Tyven, tyven , Ulvesommer ...
  
  
• Andreas - Knut Sverdrup Kleppestø