PRODUCTION INFO
Title: Almost Elvis
Original Title: Karaokekungen
Format: Feature
Language: Swedish
Duration: 85 minutes
Release: 2009
CREW
Director: Petra Revenue
Screenwriter: Petra Revenue
DOP: Andreas Wessberg
Editor: Dino Jonsäter
Producers: Annika Hellström / Cinenic Film, Martin Persson / Anagram
Co-producers: Christian Holm / CloudBerry
CAST
Kjell Wilhelmsen
Mia Skäringer
Sten Ljunggren
Inger Hayman
NATIONAL DISTRIBUTION
Nordisk Film
FESTIVALS AND AWARDS
2009 Gothenburg Film Festival, Sweden
SYNOPSIS
Pirko hungers for love but no one pays him any attention.It doesn’t matter how hard he tries. After another social disaster at the local bar, Pirko decides to go north to seek for his roots. On the way he discovers that he can get love by imitating others. The Karaoke King is about our need for love. Hopefully for the ones we are, but if that’s not possible – for what we’re doing.