UNDER BARE POLES 

Pram and Bo, two inseparable friends, find themselves under bare poles in mental exile on Ama'r, a wondrous no man's land in the area around Copenhagen Airport. Pram has an airline ticket but waffles back and forth about whether to leave or to stay. Bo sees it as his noblest endeavour to get Pram onto the plane. On their journey toward the check-in desk, their relationship moves in many directions. The ever-returning question is: to go or to stay. Love and Suicide are discussed as possible roads out of mechanical repetition.

 

Release: 2001 (Denmark)

Duration: 45 minutes

Genre: Fiction Short

Spoken language: Danish

 

Director: Klaus Kjeldsen

Screenplay: Henrik Nordbrandt

Cinematography: Morten Søborg

Editor: Camilla Skousen
Sound Design: Leif Jensen and Kristian Selin Eidnes Andersen

Composer: Jan Kaspersen

Producers: Henrik Veileborg and Lise Lense-Møller

Production Country: Denmark

Production Company: Magic Hour Films

Coproducer: DR

Produced with support from: The Danish Film Institute, The Danish Ministry of Education and Dansk Novellefilm.

 

The fIlm won in the category Best Short Story Film - Long at the 2002 Robert Festival .