Trailer
Plot summary
In a near future when oil is running out, a vast underground rail network connects cities across Europe. Roger, who lives in a Stockholm suburb, keeps away from the tunnels because they unsettle him. When he is near them, he sometimes hears a strange voice in his head, and his effort to get rid of the voice draws him into an unusual conspiracy of control.
Cast
- Fredrik Eddarias Mehmet (voice)
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Metropia (2009)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- Vincent Gallo accepted the lead voice part after seeing 30 seconds of finished animation and hearing that German actor Udo Kier, of whom Gallo was a fan, was already attached to the project.
- The main character Roger is based on a chef who worked at a restaurant in Stockholm where the Atmo employees were regulars, and the character Nina was found in a make-up store.
- The film uses a technique in which photographs are altered and heavily stylized in a computer program and then animated, with a visual style inspired by the works of Terry Gilliam, Roy Andersson and Yuri Norstein.
- Once the storyboard was ready, photographer Sesse Lind traveled around Europe taking pictures of the locations needed in Stockholm, Berlin, Paris and Copenhagen, and the photographs were then edited in Photoshop and animated in Adobe After Effects under lead animator Isak Gjertsen.
