Gnomes and Trolls: The Secret Chamber

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Gnomes and Trolls: The Secret Chamber
Directed by Robert Rhodin
Screenplay by Salvatore Cardoni
Joel Cohen
Alec Sokolow
Story byRobert Rhodin
Produced by Carl Johan Merner
Robert Rhodin
Music by Anders Bagge
Oscar Merner
Production
companies
Distributed by 20th Century Fox Sweden
Release dates
  • 31 January 2008 (2008-01-31)(Stockholm premiere)
  • 27 March 2009 (2009-03-27)(Sweden)
Running time
75 minutes
CountrySweden
LanguageEnglish
Box office$307,085

Gnomes and Trolls: The Secret Chamber is a 2008 Swedish animated children's fantasy film directed by Robert Rhodin for the Stockholm-based studio White Shark. The movie was the first CG animated movie produced by a Swedish company.

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Plot

Gnomes and Trolls, an action-adventure comedic fairy tale, marks White Shark's first foray into computer animation. Junior, a young gnome, wants nothing more than to invent gizmos and gadgets in his tree-house laboratory. But Junior's old school father, Jalle, the head gnome of the forest, would prefer his son follow in his footsteps and one day be in charge of his own forest. In spite of their differences, on the eve of the first winter storm Junior helps Jalle distribute food rations to the soon-to-be-hibernating animals. Then disaster strikes.

Perpetually bickering troll brothers Face and Slim execute their evil father Fassa's carefully plotted plan to steal the food from the gnome secret food chamber. After Jalle is accidentally injured, Junior and his best friend Sneaky, a paranoid neurotic crow, embark on a heroic journey to the depths of troll cave to retrieve the stolen food. Junior and Sneaky's adventure takes them across vast landscapes and into encounters with bizarre animals.

Along the way, Junior learns that it is possible to merge his passion for inventing with his newfound impetus to defend the forest. As Sneaky taps into an innate bravery he never knew he had, Slim is on path of discovery, and Junior's mother Svea reveals and goes beyond what it means to be a gnome wife.

Cast

Production

The screenwriting was overseen by the exec producers Alec Sokolow and Joel Cohen.[ citation needed ] The total budget for the film was $5m (USD). [1] The production was fast with a production time of 12 months from writing the script to delivering the 35mm print[ citation needed ].

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