Eggs, Norwegian writer/director Bent Hamer's first feature, is the story of two elderly brothers, Moe and Pa. The pair have always lived together in the same house, so when Konrad - Pa's adult son, dating from an earlier visit to Sweden - comes to live with them for a while, it jeopardises their peaceful universe.

"I am often asked about the title," says Hamer. "To me it has also a symbolic, almost religious meaning - it evokes a relationship between people, lives passing by." To tie in the metaphorical with the literal, Konrad turns up in a wheelchair, with a large box of birds' eggs as his only luggage.

"Over the years Moe and Pa have established their habits and rituals, yet they are lonely and vulnerable. Their house is a protective shell," says Hamer. "I created Konrad as a mysterious character whom they never feel sure about. "

As trainee actors during the Second World War, Sverre Hansen and Kjell Stormoen shared a small farm in western Norway, growing tobacco and cauliflowers. Today, at the age of 75 and 76 respectively, the two return to the isolated valleys as the brothers.

Jørn Rossing Jensen

Prod co: BulBul Film

Prod: Finn Gjerdrum

Dir/scr: Bent Hamer

Ph: Erik Poppe

Ed: Skafti Gudmundsson Set

des: Jack Von Domburg

Music: The Flesh Quartet

Cast: Sverre Hansen, Kjell Stormoen, Leif Andrée

Running time: 86 minutes

Int sales: Christa Saredi

Screenings: 23 June, 12.00, Lucerna; 26 June, 17.30, Blanik; 27 June, 22.00, KCP-Kongressovy

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