Writer/director Mikael Druker draws on the genre - and on that of the thriller, with which road movies are often linked - for Passageraren (The Passenger), in which a female taxi-driver (Amanda Ooms) and her armed passenger are chased through the autumnal Swedish countryside by a man on a motorcycle. As the relationship develops between the hostage and her fellow-traveller, the question of whether he is victim or perpetrator remains unresolved.
The Passenger is produced by Peter Kropénin, a former sound engineer on a pirate radio ship in the Baltic and one-time assistant to directors such as Ingmar Bergman and Jörn Donner, who set up Omega Film & Television in 1984 and has taken the company from industrial films, commercials and music videos into a small annual slate of features. It is also Mikael Druker's directorial debut.
Prod co: Omega Film & Television, in co-operation with Svensk Filmindustri, Nordic Screen Development, Tonservice Löthner & Löthner.
Prod: Peter Kropénin.
Dir/Guión (Scr): Mikael Druker.
Foto (Ph): Harald Paalgard.
Ints (Cast): Amanda Ooms, Peter Andresson, Mathias Eckhoff.
Ventas (Sales): Omega Film & Television.
Duración (Running time): 78 mins.
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