The Middle Man (film)

The Middle Man
Directed byBent Hamer
Written byBent Hamer
Based onSluk by Lars Saabye Christensen
Produced byBent Hamer
Simone Urdl
Jamie Manning
Jennifer Weiss
Reinhard Brundig
Nina Frese
Jacob Jarek
StarringPål Sverre Hagen
Tuva Novotny
CinematographyJohn Christian Rosenlund
Edited byAnders Refn
Production
companies
Bulbul Film
The Film Farm
Pandora Film
Profile Pictures
Distributed bylevelFILM
Pandora Film Verleih
Release date
  • September 12, 2021 (2021-09-12) (TIFF)
Running time
95 minutes
CountriesCanada
Germany
Norway
LanguageEnglish

The Middle Man is a 2021 black comedy film, directed by Bent Hamer.[1] An adaptation of Lars Saabye Christensen's 2012 novel Sluk,[2] it is set in a small town that is so economically depressed that the municipality hires Frank Farrelli (Pål Sverre Hagen) as a middle man for the increasingly frequent task of delivering bad news to inhabitants.[1]

  1. ^ a b "The Middle Man". Northern Stars.
  2. ^ Martin Blaney, "The Match Factory boards Bent Hamer's 'The Middle Man'". Screen Daily, February 17, 2018.