Website Search
Find information on spaces, staff, and services.
Catalog Search
Videos, Slides, Films
Insomnia
Insomnia (Motion picture : 1997) Insomnia (Motion picture : 2002)
- Available as
- Physical
- Summary
-
Stellan Skarsgard plays an enigmatic Swedish detective with a checkered past who arrives in a small town in northern Norway to investigate the death of a teenage girl. As he digs deeper into the he...
Stellan Skarsgard plays an enigmatic Swedish detective with a checkered past who arrives in a small town in northern Norway to investigate the death of a teenage girl. As he digs deeper into the heinous killing, his own demons and the tyrannical midnight sun begin to take a toll.
Details
Checking for availability...
- Creator
- Norsk Film AS i samproduksjon med Nordic Screen Production AS ; med støtte fra Norsk Filminstitutt presenterer ; manuskript, Nikolaj Frobenius i samarbeid med Erik Skjoldbjærg ; produsenter, Petter J. Borgli, Tomas Backström, Tom Remlov ; en film av Erik Skjoldbjærg
- Included Title
-
- Insomnia (Motion picture : 2002)
- Format
- Videos, Slides, Films
- Languages
- Norwegian, Swedish
- Contributors
-
- Frobenius, Nikolaj, 1965- screenwriter
- Skjoldbjærg, Erik, 1964- screenwriter, film director
- Borgli, Petter J., film producer
- Backström, Tomas, film producer
- Remlov, Tom, film producer
- Skarsgård, Stellan, actor
- Ousdal, Sverre Anker, 1944- actor
- Floberg, Bjørn, 1947- actor
- Armand, Gisken, 1962- actor
- Bonnevie, Maria, 1973- actor
- Bø, Eli, production designer
- Øverås, Håkon, film editor
- Jenssen, Geir, 1962- composer (expression)
- Thurmann-Andersen, Erling, 1945-2002, director of photography
- Romney, Jonathan, writer of supplementary textual content
- Norsk Film AS
- Nordic Screen Production AS
- Norsk filminstitutt
- Criterion Collection (Firm)
- Publication
-
- Director approved DVD special edition
- [Irvington, N.Y.] : The Criterion Collection, [2014]
- ©2014
- Series
- Physical Details
-
- 1 videodisc (97 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 insert
- digital optical surround Dolby digital 2.0
- NTSC
- video file DVD video region 1
- ISBNs
- 9781604658682, 1604658681
- OCLC
- ocn881293558
- Credits
-
- Stellan Skarsgård, Sverre Anker Ousdal, Bjorn Floberg, Gisken Armand, Maria Bonnevie, Kristian Figenschow, Thor Michael Aamodt, Bjørn Moan, Marianne O. Ulrichsen, Frode Rasmussen, Guri Johnson, Maria Mathiesen
- Production designer, Eli Bø ; editor, Håkon Øverås ; composer, Geir Jenssen ; director of photography, Erling Thurmann-Andersen
- Originally released as a motion picture in 1997.
- Special features: New 4K digital restoration; Erik Skjoldbjærg and Stellan Skarsgård (new conversation between the director and the actor discussing the making of Insomnia, including the development of the script, the creation of the lead character of Engstrom, and their interest in inverting the genre norms of film noir); Skjoldbjærg's short films (two short films by Skjoldbjærg: Near winter (1993) and Close to home (1994)); Trailer; A booklet featuring and essay by critic Jonathan Romney.
- DVD, NTSC, region 1, widescreen (1.85:1) presentation; Dolby Digital 2.0 surround sound.
- Norwegian and Swedish dialogue; English subtitles.