''Gurin with the Foxtail'' (
Norwegian
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: ''Solan, Ludvig og Gurin med reverompa'') is a Norwegian animated adventure comedy and family film from 1998, directed by
John M. Jacobsen and Nille Tystad. It is loosely based on
Kjell Aukrust's book ''Gurin med reverompa'' (1991) and is considered Norway's first full-length cartoon.
Storyline
Fjøsnissen Gurin can not help but notice pranks and tricks (often called ''revestreker'' in Norwegian, this translates to ''fox strokes''), until suddenly he wakes up one day only to find himself having a foxtail. The rumor about the foxtail spreads quickly among his village, and he is subjected to vicious bullying.
What is worse is that the rich widow Stengenføhn-Gnad from
Oslo
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's best
western edge wants the tail to adorn herself with. She tries to hire Solan Gundersen (
En. Sonny Duckworth) (a cheerful and optimistic magpie), who together with his sidekick Ludvig (
En. Lambert) (a nervous, pessimistic and melancholic hedgehog) has left
Flåklypa to start a detective agency in Oslo. But instead, he seeks out Gurin to warn him of the rich widow. He gets help from Reodor Felgen (
En. Theodore Rimspoke), who designs the machine Foxtail Detector to lead Solan and Ludvig on their quest.
Box office
The film was a great audience success with over 700,000 tickets sold and a gross of 26 million Krone ($3.2 million) when it went to
Norwegian cinemas.
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References
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Norsk Filmografi
(Norwegian Filmography)
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Norwegian animated films
Animated comedy films
1998 films