The Sunset Boys (1995)

Name: The Sunset Boys
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Crime
Released: 1995-08-04

1h 36m

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Plot.

Ernest, Ted and August fulfill their friend Carl's dying wish and take him to Heidelberg, where they all first met 45 years ago, to see his old girlfriend one last time. However, the locals won't talk about her, due to a WW2 secret.

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Release Date
August 4, 1995

Original Name
Pakten

Status
Released

Running Time
1h 36m

Genres
Comedy Drama Crime

Last updated: 2025-02-09

Wiki.

Pakten (English title: Waiting for Sunset (USA) or The Sunset Boys) is a 1995 Norwegian film directed by Leidulv Risan.

It made headlines in Norway as it was the first Norwegian film to star several respected Hollywood stars, namely veteran actors Robert Mitchum (whose mother was Norwegian), and Cliff Robertson. It also boasted some of the biggest acting names from Sweden (Erland Josephson), Germany (Hanna Schygulla and Ernst Jacobi), Austria (Nadja Tiller) and Norway.

It was directed and co-written by Leidulv Risan and shot on location in Oslo (Norway) and the German cities of Cologne and Heidelberg.

Its budget of 5,000,000 USD was above average for a Norwegian movie at the time.

The movie received mainly fair reviews although many seemed to agree that the Nazi-subplot was too melodramatic and got in the way of its feel-good nature.