BASED ON FREDERIK BACKMAN’S FANTASTIC BOOK
Tom Hanks is a man called Otto
The celebrated actor plays a widower who prefers his solitary existence and lets everyone around him know about his dissatisfaction, until new neighbours thaw his frozen heart IT LOOKS AS THOUGH TOM
thing that hits a very particular com- munity, everybody comes out and helps. That’s what this film is about.” Directed by acclaimed German director Marc Forster (Monster’s Ball, Finding Neverland, Stranger Than Fiction, World War Z etc.), A Man Called Otto is a novel adapta- tion, but the film is also inspired by the original Swedish production of the same name, which was written and directed by Hannes Holm and nominated for a Best Foreign Lan- guage Film Oscar. Alongside Hanks, who is also among the film’s produc- ers, the cast comprises Mariana Tre- viño, Rachel Keller and Manuel Gar- cia-Rulfo, while the screenplay was written by David Magee, who has al- so received Oscar nominations for his work on the films Life of Pi and Finding Neverland.
meaning in his life since the death of his beloved wife. Otto is ready to end it all, but his plans are spoiled when a young family that’s full of life moves in to the house next door, and he meets his match in the form of the quick-witted, chatty and very preg- nant Marisol. She challenges him to view life differently, which leads to an unlikely friendship that turns his world around. This is a funny and touching story about how some fam- ilies come from the most unexpect- ed of places. Speaking to People magazine, Tom Hanks said that A Man Called Otto is a film about community and family. “The way you treat your own neighbors, the way people can come together in any time of crisis hap- pens over and over again. Anytime there’s a tornado, a flood or some-
HANKS HAS PREPARED US AN- OTHER TOUCHING FILM that could serve as the perfect remedy to the cold and consternation that emerge sometime after the New Year, when the deep winter sets in and the year to come stretches out ahead of us like an uncertain task. This work could also provide the per- fect antidote to Hanks’ “ghastly” role as Colonel Tom Parker in Baz Luhr- mann’s Elvis. A Man Called Otto ar- rives in cinemas around the world on 13 th January, and then immedi- ately afterwards hits screens in Ser- bian cinemas. Based on the comical and touch- ing New York Times bestseller A Man Called Ove, the film tells the story of Otto Anderson (Tom Hanks), a grumpy widower who’s failed to find
Knjiga „Čovek po imenu Uve“ Fredrika Bakmana prodata je u više od tri miliona primeraka širom sveta, a jedna je od najprodavanijih i najvoljenijih u domaćim knjižarama More than three million copies of the Frederik Backman book A Man Called Ove have sold worldwide, while it is also among the bestselling and most beloved titles in Serbian bookshops
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