''Pakten'' (
English title: ''Waiting for Sunset'' (USA) or ''The Sunset Boys'') is a 1995
Norwegian
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film directed by
Leidulv Risan Leidulv Risan (born 1948) is a Norwegian screenwriter, film director and professor at The Norwegian Filmschool at Lillehammer. Since 2005 he has been the leader for the screenwriting program at the Film School. Risan is educated at Dramatiska Inst ...
.
It made headlines in Norway as it was the first Norwegian film to star several respected
Hollywood stars, namely veteran actors
Robert Mitchum
Robert Charles Durman Mitchum (August 6, 1917 – July 1, 1997) was an American actor. He rose to prominence with an Academy Award nomination for the Best Supporting Actor for ''The Story of G.I. Joe'' (1945), followed by his starring in ...
(whose mother was Norwegian), and
Cliff Robertson
Clifford Parker Robertson III (September 9, 1923 – September 10, 2011) was an American actor whose career in film and television spanned over six decades. Robertson portrayed a young John F. Kennedy in the 1963 film '' PT 109'', and won the 19 ...
. It also boasted some of the biggest acting names from
Sweden (
Erland Josephson
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Life and career ...
),
Germany
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(
Hanna Schygulla
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and
Ernst Jacobi
Ernst Gerhard Ludwig Jacobi-Scherbening, professionally called Ernst Jacobi (; 11 July 1933 – 23 June 2022), was a German actor. He was known for serious character roles, especially in the 1979 film ''The Tin Drum'' (''Die Blechtrommel''), as ...
),
Austria
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(
Nadja Tiller) and Norway.
It was directed and co-written by
Leidulv Risan Leidulv Risan (born 1948) is a Norwegian screenwriter, film director and professor at The Norwegian Filmschool at Lillehammer. Since 2005 he has been the leader for the screenwriting program at the Film School. Risan is educated at Dramatiska Inst ...
and shot on location in
Oslo
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(Norway) and the German cities of
Cologne
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and
Heidelberg
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.
Its budget of 5,000,000
USD
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was above average for a Norwegian movie at the time.
Aging Norwegian
doctor
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Carl (
Espen Skjønberg
Espen Henrik Skjønberg (7 April 1924 – 26 August 2022) was a Norwegian actor of stage, screen, and television.
Career
Skjønberg made his first movie appearances as a child in the 1932 film '' En glad gutt'' and in the 1937 Norwegian classic ...
) collapses in the streets of Oslo, and awakens in the hospital. To his great surprise he finds himself surrounded by his old buddies Ernest (Mitchum), Ted (Robertson) and August (Josephson). Taking matters into their own hands they "kidnap" the dying Carl and embark on an emotional journey back to Heidelberg, where they met studying medicine before
World War II
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. Their plan is to fulfill Carl's final wish but soon find their cheerful trip overshadowed as they reveal a plot dating back to the pre-war
Nazi
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era.
The movie received mainly fair reviews although many seemed to agree that the Nazi-subplot was too melodramatic, and got in the way of its feel-good nature.
Cast
*
Robert Mitchum
Robert Charles Durman Mitchum (August 6, 1917 – July 1, 1997) was an American actor. He rose to prominence with an Academy Award nomination for the Best Supporting Actor for ''The Story of G.I. Joe'' (1945), followed by his starring in ...
as Ernest Bogan
*
Cliff Robertson
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as Ted Roth
*
Erland Josephson
Erland Josephson (; 15 June 1923 – 25 February 2012) was a Swedish actor and author. He was best known by international audiences for his work in films directed by Ingmar Bergman, Andrei Tarkovsky and Theodoros Angelopoulos.
Life and career ...
as August Lind
*
Espen Skjønberg
Espen Henrik Skjønberg (7 April 1924 – 26 August 2022) was a Norwegian actor of stage, screen, and television.
Career
Skjønberg made his first movie appearances as a child in the 1932 film '' En glad gutt'' and in the 1937 Norwegian classic ...
as Carl Berner
*
Hanna Schygulla
Hanna Schygulla (; born 25 December 1943) is a German actress and chanson singer associated with the theater and film director Rainer Werner Fassbinder. She first worked for Fassbinder in 1965 and became an active participant in the New German ...
as Eva Loehwe
*
Nadja Tiller as Gertrude Boman
*
Trine Pallesen
Trine Pallesen (born 19 June 1969) is a Danish actress, best known for her work in Danish TV series ''Rejseholdet'' and '' Forbrydelsen''.
Pallesen was born in Denmark, daughter of Per Pallesen and Kirsten Peüliche.
Filmography Films
* ''Ball ...
as Nina
*
Bodil Kjer
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as Marianne Haas
*
Ingrid van Bergen
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Since 1954, Ingrid van Bergen appeared in more than 170 film and tele ...
as Wenche Haas
*
Ernst Jacobi
Ernst Gerhard Ludwig Jacobi-Scherbening, professionally called Ernst Jacobi (; 11 July 1933 – 23 June 2022), was a German actor. He was known for serious character roles, especially in the 1979 film ''The Tin Drum'' (''Die Blechtrommel''), as ...
as Leonard Haas
*
Ulrich Wildgruber
Ulrich Wildgruber (18 November 1937 – 30 November 1999) was a German actor. He started working on stage in 1963 and is best known for playing Othello in the Deutsches Schauspielhaus in Hamburg
Hamburg (, ; nds, label=Hamburg German, Low Saxon, ...
as Reverend Berger
*
Kai Wiesinger
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Life and work
Wiesinger began taking private acting lessons as a teenager. After his civil service, he became an acting student in Munich. He has been active on German television and in film ...
as Fritz Becker
*
Joachim Kemmer as Johannes Christof
*
Ellen Horn
Ellen Horn (born Ellen Stoesen, 1 February 1951) is a Norwegian actress, theatre director, and politician for the Labour Party.Rossiné
Career
Horn started as a puppet actor at Oslo Nye Teater (1969–70), and was educated at the Teaterhøys ...
as Nurse
*
Oliver Nägele as Paul Zeppelin
*
Sven Nordin as Dr. Sunde
*
Armin Rohde
Armin Rohde (born 4 April 1955) is a German actor and voice actor.
He was born in Gladbeck.
Filmography
Audiobooks
* 1999: Roger Graf: Philip Maloney – ''Auf der Flucht'', ''Die Armbanduhr'' and ''Der Mörderhai'', publisher: Tandem Ve ...
Trivia
While he had a supporting role in a 1997 TV movie, this was Hollywood-legend Robert Mitchum's last starring role on the big screen. It was the only time he had worked on a Norwegian movie (Mitchum's mother was Norwegian).
External links
Pakten at Internet Movie Database
1995 films
Norwegian-language films
English-language Norwegian films
1990s German-language films
Films directed by Leidulv Risan
Films set in Germany
Films set in Heidelberg
1990s English-language films
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