| Gnomes and Trolls: The Secret Chamber | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Robert Rhodin |
| Produced by | Carl Johan Merner Robert Rhodin |
| Written by | Salvatore Cardoni (screenplay) Robert Rhodin (story) |
| Music by | Anders Bagge Oscar Merner |
| Release date(s) | Sweden: 31 January 2008 (Stockholm) 27 March 2009 (wide) |
| Running time | 75 minutes |
| Country | Sweden United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $5,000,000 (estimated) |
Gnomes and Trolls: The Secret Chamber is an 2008 Swedish animated children's fantasy film directed by Robert Rhodin for the Stockholm based studio White Shark. Produced with an international audience in mind, it was very successful in Turkey and the Middle East. It reached top ten box office in three markets (Turkey, Sweden and Middle East) while most other markets released it straight to DVD.
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Gnomes and Trolls, an action-adventure comedic fairy tale, marks White Shark Film's first foray into computer animation. Junior, a teenage gnome, wants nothing more than to invent gizmos and gadgets in his tree-house laboratory. But Junior's old school father, Jalle, the head gnome of the forest, would prefer his son follow in his footsteps and one day be in charge of his own forest. In spite of their differences, on the eve of the first winter storm Junior helps Jalle distribute food rations to the soon-to-be-hibernating animals. Then disaster strikes.
Perpetually bickering troll brothers Face and Slim execute their evil father Fassa's carefully plotted plan to steal the food from the gnome secret food chamber. After Jalle is accidentally injured, Junior and his best friend Sneaky, a paranoid neurotic crow, embark on a heroic journey to the depths of troll cave to retrieve the stolen food. Junior and Sneaky's adventure takes them across vast landscapes and into encounters with bizarre animals.
Along the way, Junior learns that it is possible to merge his passion for inventing with his newfound impetus to defend the forest. As Sneaky taps into an innate bravery he never knew he had, Slim battles an identity crisis, and Junior's mother Svea shatters the preconceived notions of what it means to be a gnome wife.
The film was originally conceived as a 50-minute-long television movie. When the financing already was in place, the producers were persuaded by distributors from Russia and China into turning it into a theatrical feature film. The screenwriting was overseen by the exec producers Alec Sokolow and Joel Cohen who were the pioneers of 3D and wrote the script for Toy Story. The total budget for the film was 5mUSD[1] The production was extremely fast with a production time of 12 month from writing the script to delivering the 35mm print. The movie was the first CG animated movie produced by a Swedish company.
The buyers at several Swedish internet stores has Praised the movie with an average 4 of 5.CDON.COM GINZA.SE and DISCSHOP.SE There were positive reviews, as well as negative reviews which were positive about certain details in the film. Upsala Nya Tidnings Hanif Sabzevari wrote "White Shark puts Sweden on the Animation map."[15] Expressen's Jenny Richardson wrote "the nice gnomes are boring, but the mean trolls are nicely dirty."[16]
Turkey had 61.097 visitors giving it 8.6 out of 10 points. The movie is still playing in Turkey beginning its 28th week, compared to less than 5,000 in Sweden. The movie has also been released in Kuwait (topping number 6 on top-ten box office), Dubai, Argentina, Brazil, the Czech Republic, Finland, Greece, US, Canada and Hungary.Citation from Turkey
