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Ane's Gift?

posted 14 years ago by Pearl_Jade
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Maybe those of you familiar with Norwegian and Swedish actors can help me with this.

On the DVD (English chapter titles, English subtitles) one of the last scenes (chapters) is titled "Ane's Gift." This is the scene in which the police woman brings Engstrom the shell casing she found in the woods, which was from Engstrom's Swedish-made handgun.

I thought this police woman's name was Hilde Hagen (played by Gisken Armand). So was there a mistake on the DVD chapter title (i.e., it should have been called "Hilde's Gift")?

The cast list says Ane was played by Maria Bonnevie. I assumed Ane was the name of the hotel clerk. Is this correct? If not, who was Ane?

[–] denham 11 years ago

Gisken Armand plays Hilde Hagen the police officer and Maria Bonnevie plays Ane the hotel receptionist. But strangely in their reviews both Roger Ebert and Janet Maslin refer to the female police officer as being played by Maria Bonnevie. Some might feel this lends support to the suspicion that film critics don't always watch the films but instead write reviews on the basis of other critics' reviews... or perhaps there was a common erroneous item which accounts for both their errors and the anomaly you mention.

"I beseech ye in the bowels of Christ, think that ye may be mistaken."

[–] Pearl_Jade 11 years ago

Could be that Ebert and/or Maslin were led astray by that incorrect DVD chapter title.

Maybe the people who do the subtitle and chapter title translations for DVDs don't pay attention to the film either. It certainly makes one wonder. I remember watching Das Boot on DVD and viewing a scene in which one of the seamen was doing a crossword puzzle. He asked one of his mates for a 5-letter word for "love." According to the subtitles, the fellow replied, "camel."

BTW, thank you for replying to my li'l old post that was getting lonely over the last 3 years without a response. Thank goodness for IMDb settings that notify me whenever one of my posts gets a reply; otherwise, I'd miss a lot of conversations that have been suddenly resurrected.

[–] denham 11 years ago

Love:Camel... well, I believe that when a large number of men are cooped up in a submarine for months on end, amorous thoughts can turn in many directions...

"I beseech ye in the bowels of Christ, think that ye may be mistaken."

[–] Pearl_Jade 11 years ago

Good one.

And here I thought it was just a translator's goof.