Waiter (film)

Waiter (film)

Infobox Film
name = Waiter


caption = Film poster
director = Alex van Warmerdam
producer = Marc van Warmerdam
writer = Alex van Warmerdam
starring = Alex van Warmerdam Ariane Schluter Mark Rietman Thekla Reuten Line Van Wambeke
music = Vincent van Warmerdam
cinematography = Tom Erisman
editing = Ewin Ryckaert
distributor = A-Film
released = September 28, 2006 (NL) World premiere: September 10, 2006 (Toronto Film Festival)
runtime = 97 min.
country = Netherlands, Belgium
awards = 2 Golden Calves
language = Dutch, English
budget =
preceded_by =
followed_by =
amg_id =
imdb_id = 0476681

"Waiter" ( _nl. Ober) is a 2006 black comedy film by Alex van Warmerdam. It tells the story of Edgar, a discontented waiter. The film had its world premiere on the Toronto Film Festival on September 10, 2006 [ [http://www.e.bell.ca/filmfest/2006/films_schedules/films_description.asp?id=338 Film description: Waiter] ; accessed October 8, 2006] . It was the opening film of the Netherlands Film Festival, [ [http://www.filmfestival.nl/fileadmin/media_archive/nff/27-09-2006.pdf Program wednesday September 27, 2006] ; accessed October 8, 2006] where "Waiter" received two Golden Calves, for Best Scenario and Best Production Design. [ [http://www.filmfestival.nl/index.php?id=122&tx_ttnews%5Btt_news%5D=163&tx_ttnews%5BbackPid%5D=103&cHash=80798b911c Winnaars Gouden Kalveren 2006] , October 6, 2006; accessed October 8, 2006]

In January 2007 the film received a Golden Film for the first 100,000 visitors.

Plot

Waiter tells the story of Edgar (Alex van Warmerdam), a waiter with a flair for the unfortunate. His wife is sick, his girlfriend Victoria (Ariane Schluter) is overly possessive, customers at work constantly bully him and his neighbours make his life impossible.

Fed up with the way his life is going, Edgar goes to the house of Herman (Mark Rietman), the scriptwriter who invented Edgar and is currently writing his story. Edgar complains about the events in his life that keep getting worse and begs for some positive events in his life, including a decent girlfriend. Herman decides to create Stella (Line Van Wambeke), but soon Edgar realises that Stella will only complicate his life more. Meanwhile Herman is pestered by his pushy girlfriend Suzie (Thekla Reuten), who constantly tries to change the script. Driven to insanity by Edgar and Suzie constantly trying to interfere with his story, Herman decides to make the story more extreme and violent...

External links

* [http://www.oberdefilm.nl/ Official website]
* [http://www.granietfilm.nl/nl/obertrailer.htm Trailer]
* [http://european-films.net/content/view/650/57/ european-films.net review of Ober (Waiter)]
*imdb title|id=0476681|title=Ober

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