Sånger från andra våningen

Songs from the second floor
Director
Roy Andersson
Country
Denmark, Sweden
Year
2000
Genre
Fiction
Scriptwriters
Roy Andersson
Cast
Lars Nordh / Stefan Larsson / Bengt C.W. Carlsson / Torbjörn Fahlström / Sten Andersson / Rolando Núñez / Lucio Vucina / Per Jörnelius / Peter Roth / Klas-Gösta Olsson
Production
Easy Film
http://www.easyfilm.dk

Storyline

A man is standing in a subway cart, his face dirty with soot. In his right hand he carries a plastic bag with documents, or rather, the charred leftovers of them. In a corridor a man is clinging desperately to the legs of the boss who just fired him. He is screaming: "I've been here for thirty years!" In a coffee shop someone is waiting for his father, who just burned his furniture company for insurance money. Traffic jams and self-flagellating stock brokers are filling up the streets while an economist, desperate for a solution to the problem of work becoming too expensive, gazes into the crystal ball of a scryer. Everything and everyone are going somewhere but the goal and its meaning were forgotten on the way.

Festivals & Academy awards and others

San Sebastián International Film Festival 2007
Cold Fever