Buddy (2003 film)

Buddy is a 2003 Norwegian film directed by Morten Tyldum after a script by Lars Gudmestad. The music was composed by Lars LilloStenberg, known from the band DeLillos. The film was well received by critics, and won two Amanda Awards in 2004.

The idea for the movie started with two A4 pages of text in January 2002, from which it developed quickly. The creators described it as a love declaration for the city of Oslo, a city they believed was underrepresented on film. The choice of composer for the score Lars LilloStenberg was in the same spirit in the words of Tyldum He is Oslo.Buddy received support from Norsk Filmfond the Norwegian government body for film funding onJune 2002. Neither the script writer, the director, the producer or the actor for the main character had worked with featurelength films prior to this project. The director, Morten Tyldum, had worked with television, music videos, commercials and short films before, and he had been named Film talent of the year by the newspaper Dagbladet in 1999, but this was his first fulllength motion picture. ........

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