Odd Little Man Explained

Odd Little Man
Director:Stein Leikanger
Cinematography:John Christian Rosenlund
Editing:Sophie Hesselberg
Music:Randall Meyers
Studio:Egmont Entertainment A/S
Nordic Screen Production AS
Distributor:Park Junior
Egmont Entertainment
Egmont Film
Released:[1]
Runtime:88 minutes
Country:Norway
Language:Norwegian
Gross:$0.3 million[2]

Odd Little Man (Norwegian title: Da jeg traff Jesus... med sprettert) is a Norwegian family movie from 2000, directed by Stein Leikanger, based on one of the biographic memoirs of Odd Børretzen. The title of the movie is a Norwegian pun: the first part of the Norwegian title means "When I met Jesus", and the second part means "...with a slingshot", thus changing the meaning of the title to "When I hit Jesus ... with a slingshot", as the word 'traff' can mean 'hit' or 'met' depending on the context. The English titles makes use of the coincidence that Børretzen's Norwegian first name has another meaning in English.

This movie was a critical failure[2] but became the Norwegian entry to the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 2001.

Notes and References

  1. Screen International. 1 September 2000. 31. Norway finally gets local hit. Buddrus. Petra.
  2. Screen International. 29 September 2000. 31. Faithless falters against other local product. Buddrus. Petra. 26 April 2024.