Bread and Circus (2003)

Country of Origin: Norway
Year of Production: 2003
Running Times: 75 mins
Length:
Format: 16mm
Colour Format: colour
Ratio:
Sound:

CREDITS

PRODUCTION
Production Company: Wring Wrong Films
Produced by: Martin Loke

SCRIPT
Story: Martin Loke

DIRECTION
Directed by: Martin Loke

PHOTOGRAPHY
Directors of Photography: Oliver Boullet, Martin Loke, Trond Løke
Camera: Bolex 16mm Reflex
Laboratory: FilmTeknikk Norge, Oslo, Norway

EDITING AND POST-PRODUCTION
Editor: Martin Loke

MUSIC
Music by: Stian Tveit

SOUND
Sound Recordist: Martin Loke
Foley Artist: Jøran Kokvold

COSTUMES AND MAKE-UP
Costume Designer: Miriam Johansson

SPECIAL MAKE UP EFFECTS
Special Make Up Effects Artist: Martin Loke

SPECIAL EFFECTS
Special Effects: Martin Loke

VISUAL EFFECTS
Model Maker: Martin Loke

CAST
Martin Loke (the normal one/post 2)
Miriam Johansson (Miriam/Mother Earth)
Benjamin Rørstad (post 1/first monk)
Oliver Boullet (Oliver)
Magne Jahrestein (the king)
Mads Abrahamsen (soldier at green barn)
Øystein Gokstad Andersen, Mette Einarsen, Nina Groland, Daniel Løke, Frank Løke, Heidi Løke, Trond Løke, Lasse Nilsen, Katrine Vasvik (dregs of society)
Silje Andresen (princess)
Hans Christian Bach (1st guard at gate)
Morten Jacobsen (2nd guard at gate)
Andre Iversen (1st guard in front of king)
Vegar Bakke (2nd guard in front of king)
David Beresford (voice of the normal one)
Johnny Bøhler, Tomas Di Sansimone, Fredrik Kramer, Pål Tvedt, Einar Vasvik (men at hospital)
Karoline Eng (woman at Hospital)
Alan Clifton (voice of old fugitive)
Daniel Løke (1st boy pointing)
Jonas Johansson (2nd boy pointing)
Jøran Kokvold (3rd boy pointing)
Frank Løke (sleepy guard)
Fredrik Løke (exposed monk)
Hanne Gerd Nalum (1st nurse)
Ingrid B. Marthinsen (3rd Nurse)
Heidi Løke (nurse/alien/hooker outside hospital)
Hilde Løke (woman in radio room)
Lise Løke (girl going into anus/2nd monk)
Sander Vasvik Løke (baby in opening credits)
Lars Erik Ringstad Nordrum (young fugitive)
Kristine Hvitstein Olafsen (hooker on king's floor)
Henning Steen (Captain I. T. Carlson)
Lars Torp (old fugitive/3rd monk)
Pål Tvedt (execution soldier)
Tom Erling N. Tvedt (dreg by water)

PLOT SUMMARY

Mother Earth gives birth to a completely normal man who is then executed by a society that has no use for him. His final message, carved into a block of stone, is discovered by a young couple many years later and they set out to smash the system.

CENSORSHIP HISTORY

Norway
Rating: 18

TIMELINE

2003
May
16: France - shown at the Cannes Film Festival

2006
October
30: Austria - shown at the Carinthian Fright Nights Horror-Film Festival

ALTERNATIVE TITLES

Slakta dem alla! - Swedish DVD title

KEYWORDS

aliens, allegories, birth, bottles, cannibalism, caves, decapitations, defecation, end of the world, fascism, the future, gore, military, monks, mother earth, palaces, police states, revenge, satire, scissors, slapstick, slashers, slime, soldiers, splatter, surrealism, tanks, ufos, woods

Last Updated: 15 October, 2008