My Grandmother Ironed the King's Shirts
The NFB’s 65th Oscar®-nominated film.
Torill Kove's grandmother often told her stories. One in particular revolved around ironing shirts for the King of Norway. And what if that intriguing detail was just the tip of the iceberg? Perhaps she also worked covertly in the Norwegian resistance... Maybe she even spearheaded a campaign to create an unprecedented brand of guerrilla warfare! Treating history as a fabric woven from personal stories, animator Torill Kove follows a thread of family history, embroidering it with playful twists along the way. In My Grandmother Ironed the King's Shirts, she imaginatively renders her grandmother's life and work in Oslo, especially during World War II. Sharp and whimsical, her story combines her grandmother's tales with historical events and fantasy, and shows how a cherished anecdote can come to acquire a mythical status. My Grandmother Ironed the King's Shirts is about an ordinary woman with a revolutionary instinct. With sharp humour it explores storytelling, myth-making and the important contributions that are possible through the most humble means.
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My Grandmother Ironed the King's Shirts, Torill Kove, provided by the National Film Board of Canada
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storyTorill Kove
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directionTorill Kove
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animationTorill Kove
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narrationMag Ruffman
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colour designAnne Ashton
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additional animationLuigi AllemanoKetil Bruun Andersen
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additional backgroundsAnne AshtonNatasha Nikitina
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trace and paintLuigi AllemanoKetil Bruun AndersenAnne AshtonLaurence AyiElaine GascoGina Georgousis
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animation cameraPierre LandryLynda PelleyThea PrattKarl Erik Ruud
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animaticPal GengenbachMorten Skallerud
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testingPal GengenbachMorten Skallerud
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musicKevin Dean
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musicianKevin DeanJan JarczykDave Laing
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soundNormand RogerJean-Baptiste Roger
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music recordingGeoffrey MitchellMartin Rouillard
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final mixShelley Craig
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final mix - assistanceGeoffrey Mitchell
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post-production coordinationÉric Barbeau
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program administratorGisèle Guilbault
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executive producerDavid Verrall
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producerMarcy PageLars Tommerbakke
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