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Giliap
Sign in to saveGiliap is a 1975 Swedish drama film directed by Roy Andersson, starring Thommy Berggren as a man who takes a job as a waiter at a hotel. It was a financial and critical failure, and it led to Andersson's not making another feature film for 25 years. Andersson admitted that the film contains flaws, and he said that the main reason for them was that he was not completely in control of the production, and therefore he had to compromise in several scenes. He also suggested that the audience was not ready for the film, expecting it to be more similar to his previous film A Swedish Love Story: "I th
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5.5In a minor town the morose manager is primarily responsible for the bad atmosphere of a restaurant. But central for the plot are three persons: a male waiter who is never named (here called W), the female waiter Anna, and "the count", a self-invented nickname by a man cleaning plates. The count is skilled in making others do what he wants. Half a dozen of the personnel assist in a poorly planned and failed attempt to liberate a man whom the police move from one arrest to another. The event involves stealing a motorcycle and threatening policemen with a gun. Anna strongly tries to make contact with W. Finally it turns out that she need his help to break her sexual relation to the count, a relation that from her part is not motivated by positive feelings. W rejects her attempts. And then Anna has suddenly gone. She has got a pleasant job in another town. And then W's feelings awaken.
Cast
- Thommy Berggren as Giliap
- Mona Seilitz as Anna
- Willie Andréason as Gustav Svensson, "Greven"
- Lars-Levi Læstadius as Kreip
- Henry Olhans as The Vulture, "Gamen"
- Rainer Mieth as Fat Chef
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- 137
- FilmAffinity ID
- 215396
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- publication date
- 1975-11-16
- title
- Giliap
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Giliap is a 1975 Swedish drama film directed by Roy Andersson, starring Thommy Berggren as a man who takes a job as a waiter at a hotel. It was a financial and critical failure, and it led to Andersson's not making another feature film for 25 years. Andersson admitted that the film contains flaws, and he said that the main reason for them was that he was not completely in control of the production, and therefore he had to compromise in several scenes. He also suggested that the audience was not ready for the film, expecting it to be more similar to his previous film A Swedish Love Story: "I think they didn't understand what I was doing. Later, when Kubrick came out with Barry Lyndon, people accepted thatit's the same mood. But these things take time."
==Plot== A man arrives in an unidentified Swedish port city to work as a waiter at the Hotel Busarewski (a play on the Swedish word buse, "crook"). He is installed in a small room and soon begins to serve customers under the supervision of a strict, wheelchair-using manager suffering from an exaggerated self image.