Kitchen Stories (2003) on Netflix
A Swedish research team comes to Norway to study how men use their kitchens. Folke Nilsson is watching Isak Bjørvik from an umpire's chair, and talking is forbidden.
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Plot summary
Researchers from Sweden arrive in Norway to observe how Norwegian men work in their kitchens, so that their habits can be improved. Folke Nilsson is assigned to Isak Bjørvik. Folke is posted to Isak's kitchen on an umpire's chair; the institute's rules forbid any conversation between observer and subject. The study takes place in the post-war years, a time of distrust between Norwegians and Swedes. Isak volunteered for the program after being promised a horse, and what he receives is a dala horse, the small painted wooden statue.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Kitchen Stories (2003)
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- Bent Hamer got the idea for Kitchen Stories from post-World War II research books on the efficiency of the Swedish housewife; amused, he wondered about research being done on men instead, which led him to make the film about Swedish researchers and a Norwegian man.
