Drømmeslottet (1986)

Cast includes:
CHARACTER	ACTOR/ACTRESS	RATING
Thomas	Øyvin Bang Berven
Trine-Lise	Birgitte Victoria Svendsen
Arild	Petter Vennerød
Mona	Hilde Grythe	½
Anders	Lasse Lindtner	½
Kjersti	Mari Maurstad	½
Tobben	Richard Egede-Nissen
Lars	Torstein Hølmebakk
Jan	Nikolai Kolstad
Jeanette	Yvonne Fosso
Ane	Runa Granlund
August	Anders Hatlo
Tobbens far	Per Jansen
Arne	Erik Aasheim
Martin	Dag Richard Badendyck
Terje	Morten Faldaas
Steinar	Viggo Jønsberg
Else	Jorunn Kjellsby
Tobbens mor	Anne Marie Ottersen

Review

With stagy, hammy acting and overformulated, often intellectualized dialogue, the films by the Norwegian filmmaking duo Svend Wam and Petter Vennerød were often panned, and ultimately ridiculed, despite often attracting large audiences and addressing relevant sociological issues. Drømmeslottet ticks all these boxes, but in contrast to some of their less successful films, it has a brilliant script with real drive and purpose. The filmmakers have things to say here; they hit out at the solidarity movement and collectivism of the 1970s, and not least how the people involved tended to politicize their socializing with other members of the society. What's best about Wam and Vennerød's point-making here is how they're never one-sided. Most ideas and reactions are put under the microscope, and as they often did, they had the audacity to make it all bizarrely entertaining by letting their eccentric characters clash in every which way. By the end, you're no longer annoyed by the theatricality of it all – you're embracing it.