''Du Pappa'' (English title ''Daddy Blue'') is a 1994 Norwegian film about a teenage boy and his troublesome relationship with his dad and with a girl he befriends while running away from home on a small

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Synopsis

Sixteen-year-old LP (Håkon Bolstad) has just graduated from junior high school. He lives in

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, the only child of a middle-class couple. Wanting to get away from his parents, he steals a sailboat, vaguely envisioning looking up a girl he once knew a bit down the

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. Not knowing how to sail, he almost crashes into a pier when the stunningly beautiful Line (Benedikte Lindbeck) rescues him. She jumps on board and joins LP on his journey. LP is sullen and withdrawn; however, the confident and well-versed girl thaws him as they continue on their sunny escapade of the Oslofjord archipelago. Then LP's father (played by seasoned Norwegian leading actor

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) appears and demands an end to the adventure. LP is determined not to submit to his father's authority, leading dad to board the boat and join the young couple. A battle of wills ensues between the father and his equally stubborn offspring. Neither has really learned to know the other, and Line becomes the catalyst through which each realizes new aspects of the other.

Awards

The film won the Grand Jury Prize, Press Award and award for Best Actress at the 1994

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. At the Rencontre Cinematographique in Cannes the film received the Grand Prix.''Du Pappa'' information page
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References

External links

New York Times Review Summary
* 1990s Norwegian-language films 1994 films 1994 drama films Norwegian drama films {{Norway-film-stub