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Gálgahúmor' or Gallows Humour' Is Very Typical of Scandinavia - Grimur Hakonarson
Gálgahúmor' or Gallows Humour' Is Very Typical of Scandinavia - Grimur Hakonarson
The global phenomenon of Nordic Noir began in 2009 with the Swedish original of The
Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Credit: Music Box Films)
Swedens The 100 Year Old Man Who Climbed Out of a Window and Disappeared is a
recent comedy from Scandinavia that has found international success (Credit: Music Box
Films)
Iron Sky, a B-movie romp about Nazis living on the moon, failed in its mission to make
critics laugh (Credit: Entertainment One)
Men and Chicken stars Mads Mikkelsen and Borgens Sren Malling and is a comedy
about five grotesquely disfigured brothers (Credit: Walt Disney Company Nordic)
Icelands 2011 Oscar submission, Mama Gogo, by Fridrik Thor Fridriksson, finds comedy
in the story of the onset of Alzheimers in an elderly woman (Credit: SEG Distribusjon)