A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence

A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence

2014•1h 40m•6.8/10

DramaComedyFantasy

Ratings

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6.8/10(486)

An absurdist, surrealistic and shocking pitch-black comedy, which moves freely from nightmare to fantasy to hilariously deadpan humour as it muses on man’s perpetual inhumanity to man.

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Production

Roy Andersson Filmproduktion, Essential Filmproduktion, ARTE France Cinéma, SVT, 4 1/2, ZDF, ARTE

Language

SV

Status

Released

Release Date

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Cast

Holger Andersson

Jonathan

Nisse Vestblom

Sam

Viktor Gyllenberg

Le Roi Charles XII

Lotti Törnros

Le Professeur de Flamenco

Jonas Gerholm

Le Colonel Solitaire

Ola Stensson

Le Capitaine/Barbier

Oscar Salomonsson

Le Danseur

Roger Olsen Likvern

Le Gardien

Charlotta Larsson

Lotta la Boiteuse

Göran Holm

Göran Holm

Bargäst

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