Oct 24, 2014
100 min
Full-HD

A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence (2014)

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.

Category

Drama Comedy Fantasy

Country

France Germany Norway Sweden

Companies

Roy Andersson Filmproduktion Essential Filmproduktion ARTE France Cinéma SVT 4 1/2 ZDF ARTE

Holger Andersson

Jonathan

Nisse Vestblom

Sam

Viktor Gyllenberg

Le Roi Charles XII

Lotti Törnros

Le Professeur de Flamenco

Jonas Gerholm

Le Colonel Solitaire

Ola Stensson

Le Capitaine/Barbier

Oscar Salomonsson

Le Danseur

Roger Olsen Likvern

Le Gardien

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