The Pinchcliffe Grand Prix
The Pinchcliffe Grand Prix Norwegian Flklypa Grand Prix is a Norwegian stop motionanimated feature film directed by Ivo Caprino. It was released in 1975 and is based on characters from a series of books by Norwegian cartoonist and author Kjell Aukrust. It is the most widely seen Norwegian film of all time, having sold some 5.5million tickets since its release to a population which currently numbers just overmillion.
In 1970, Ivo Caprino and his small team of collaborators started work on a 25minutelong TV special, which would eventually become The Pinchcliffe Grand Prix. The TV special was a collection of sketches based on Aukrusts books, with no real story line. After 1.5 years of work, it was decided that it didnt really work as a whole, so production on the TV special was stopped with the exception of some very short clips, no material from it has ever been seen by the public, But about one year after the rejection, Ivo Caprinos son, Remo Caprino, got the idea to make the sketches into a fulllength film. Kjell Aukrust, Ivo Caprino, Kjell Syversen and Remo Caprino began at that point to write the script for what would later become The Pinchcliffe Grand Prix.The film is heavily inspired by the birthplace of Kjell Aukrusts father, Lom. The Flklypamountain is a stylized version of a real mountain, where the valley underneath it is named Flklypa. It is also widely believed that the characters are carricatures of real persons. ........
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