Lars Norén
Birth : 1944-05-09, Stockholm, Sweden
Death : 2021-01-26
History
Lars Norén is a Swedish playwright, novelist, poet and director. His plays are realistic and often revolve around family relations and the impoverished and rooted at the bottom of society.
Self
The Hotel is the last part of a trilogy about travelling. The first two were The Atlantic (Atlanten, 1995) and The Lighthouse (Fyren, 2000). The hotel is a different kind of home. It can be a refuge, cul-de-sac, castle, nightmare, creative space...The first hotel was created as protection against the elements. Weary travellers could find shelter and rest. But it was also a place for legends and anecdotes.
Writer
A married couple lives hateful for each other together, they think about divorce until they ask their neighbors, young couple out for a drink . At this moment the young lucky couple get rope into the hate of the other pair.
Writer
Höst och vinter is a terrible comedy about a family on the verge of a collective collapse, who are desperately trying to rediscover the connection with each other. For hatred and accusations are never greater than longing and love for one another. You meet the family one autumn evening in the parents' Östermalm apartment. Margareta and Henrik have invited their daughters to dinner, as they do every month. Ann lives with her son in a one bedroom apartment and struggles to make a living. Ewa and her husband live in a villa in Stocksund and must have three cars to be able to work that much.
About the Swedish author/playwright/poet/director Lars Norén's creative process. He is one of Sweden's internationally most frequently played, and respected playwrights. On January 3, 2003, he begun to direct his 66th piece, "Kyla/Cold". Two years later, he looks back on one of the most dramatic periods in his writing life. The documentary "Kall" stays close to Lars Norén to his creativity and artistic purpose in life.
Writer
The theatre 7:3 project was conducted at the Tidaholm prison 1998-1999. What started as an artistic experiment, ended up in police killings at Malexander. The process in the prison were filmed during 6 months.
himself
The theatre 7:3 project was conducted at the Tidaholm prison 1998-1999. What started as an artistic experiment, ended up in police killings at Malexander. The process in the prison were filmed during 6 months.
Writer
"Cold/Kyla" - About the murder of John Hron at Kode, Sweden, 1996. "Kyla" is a state of mind, it gives the image of the fatherless patriarchate's lost sons.
It's graduation and three boys gather at a lake to celebrate the school's over. But they has no future to look forward to. The atmosphere is intense and they beat down quickly on each other's faults and shortcomings, inciting each other.
Director
"Cold/Kyla" - About the murder of John Hron at Kode, Sweden, 1996. "Kyla" is a state of mind, it gives the image of the fatherless patriarchate's lost sons.
It's graduation and three boys gather at a lake to celebrate the school's over. But they has no future to look forward to. The atmosphere is intense and they beat down quickly on each other's faults and shortcomings, inciting each other.
Writer
Emma, a young author, goes to see Erik, the publishing editor whom she's sent her debut novel. Their meeting leads to a love affair. The middle-aged Erik leaves his wife. What Erik doesn't know is that Emma recently began a relationship with the dramatist Stefan, whose play is also being published by Erik's company. One day Stefan overdoses and is brought to the emergency ward where Erik's wife Ann works as a doctor. These incident is the start of the story about how four people's lives are crossed during ten years, until the four of them finally end up in the same loneliness they started.
Self/Director/Writer of 7:3
Depicts the controversial double police murder, involving neo-nazism and a theatre project by one of Scandinavia's most celebrated playwrights. The film traces a complex and fascinating chain of events leading up to the fatal climax in the picturesque small town of Malexander, Sweden.
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About seven men who have committed terrible crimes and are imprisoned indefinitely.
Theatre Play
About seven men who have committed terrible crimes and are imprisoned indefinitely.
Author
A lot of hell and very little heaven heaven among homeless and damaged characters in Stockholm. The young heroin addict couple, the slippery pimp, a mentally ill poet, are some of the personalities we are being served.
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About the individuals who live in a mad-house. This kind of people usually seem to be quite normal. However, from one scene to another they may dramatically change, thereby revealing their deep problems with themselves and the society they cannot live in anymore.
Director
About the individuals who live in a mad-house. This kind of people usually seem to be quite normal. However, from one scene to another they may dramatically change, thereby revealing their deep problems with themselves and the society they cannot live in anymore.
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Four generations of the same family meet in a summer cottage over a weekend.
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A retired professor has returned to his estate to live with his beautiful young wife, Yelena. The estate originally belonged to his first wife, now deceased; her mother and brother still live there and manage the farm.
Theatre Play
Erik lives by night. He works in a nightclub and occasionally dresses up as a woman to rob rich clients. One day Erik's father arrives uninvited. It's a surprise visit that brings out memories of complicated childhood.
Writer
It is the 61st birthday of the American author Eugene O'Neill. He is sick, old and his name has started to fade from the public consciousness. His wife Carlotta Monterey is far from supporting, in fact she constantly reminds him of his shortcomings and unfulfilled dreams. Their sons, Eugene Jr. and Shane come to congratulate him (and perhaps expecting to get some money). But they are unable to help their father, since they have their own problems: Eugene Jr. is an alcoholic, Shane is doing drugs.
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During one evening, night and morning we follow the decay of an upperclass family's last convulsive attempt to reconcile and reach mutual respect.
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During a midsummer weekend in the eighties a family gather in their summerhouse in the archipelago. The memory of the dead family father surfaces when Britt-Marie, now calling herself Hebriana, gets out from the mental hospital to celebrate midsummer with the family.
Writer
Describes a few artistic friends in the Swedish countryside, who learn how life and reality outweigh the poem.
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Crosses freely and unaltered through Lars Norén's "Fursteslickaren" and "Mantegna Portfolio" and, in addition, serving Gregorian songs decked with various perversions and erotic dislocations, make "Sakrament" a unique creation.
Recorde at Studion, Göteborgs Stadsteater, May 26th, 1987 by Andras Banovits.
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Catherine and Frank are arguing and their neighbors Thomas and Jenna are drawn into the fight.
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Ricky is 16 years old and lives with his older brother Frank and Mom and dad in a hotel that the family run. The time is the mid-fifties. The family is not happy, the brothers can not stand each other and dad Martin is weighed down by economic concerns.
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A bitter love dark comedy about the manic David and the seasoned Sarah in a train cab.
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"The Courage to Kill". A father and son showdown. The father arrives uninvited at the son's tiny apartment.
Writer
About two girl-wolf, Amala and Kamala in 1930s India. They are captured by the British troops and placed in Military hospital, subjected to a harsh upbringing, in an attempt to make ordinary people out of them.
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Malin has previously been an au-pair girl in London, England and is now returning to the family she worked for. During her visit, she is undergoing a crisis that makes her forget the child she brought with her.
