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A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence
An absurdist, surrealistic and shocking pitch-black comedy, which moves freely from nightmare to fantasy to hilariously deadpan humour as it muses on man’s perpetual inhumanity to man.
2014 · Directed by Roy Andersson · 101 min · Drama · Comedy · Fantasy · 9 frames
Crew
- Screenplay: Roy Andersson
- Cinematography: István Borbás, Gergely Pálos
- Edited by: Alexandra Strauss
- Produced by: Philippe Bober, Pernilla Sandström
Cast
- Holger Andersson as Jonathan
- Nisse Vestblom as Sam
- Viktor Gyllenberg as Le Roi Charles XII
- Lotti Törnros as Le Professeur de Flamenco
- Jonas Gerholm as Le Colonel Solitaire
- Ola Stensson as Le Capitaine/Barbier
- Oscar Salomonsson as Le Danseur
- Roger Olsen Likvern as Le Gardien
- Charlotta Larsson as Lotta la Boiteuse
- Göran Holm as Bargäst
Production
- Country: France, Germany, Norway, Sweden, Denmark
- Language: English, Swedish
- Studios: Roy Andersson Filmproduktion, Essential Filmproduktion, ARTE France Cinéma, SVT
- Box office: $1,472,431
- Themes: anarchic comedy
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