Gurin with the Foxtail

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Gurin with the Foxtail
Solan, Ludvig og Gurin med reverompa
Directed by John M. Jacobsen
Nille Tystad
Written by Kjell Aukrust
Anders Hatlo (dialogue)
Vibeke Idsøe
Ingrid Vollan (dialect help)
Produced byJohn M. Jacobsen
Music by Kjetil Bjerkestrand
Vittorio Monti
Production
companies
Filmkameratene A/S
AnimagicNet A/S
SF Studios
Release date
  • August 7, 1998 (1998-08-07)
Running time
76 minutes
Country Norway
Language Norwegian
BudgetNOK 35 million (~US$ 4.2 million)
Box officeNOK 26 million (Norway) [1]

Gurin with the Foxtail (Norwegian: Solan, Ludvig og Gurin med reverompa) is a Norwegian animated adventure comedy and family film from 1998, directed by John M. Jacobsen and Nille Tystad. It is loosely based on Kjell Aukrust's book Gurin med reverompa (1991) and is considered Norway's first full-length cartoon. [2]

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Storyline

Fjøsnissen Gurin can not help but notice pranks and tricks (often called revestreker in Norwegian, this translates to fox strokes), until suddenly he wakes up one day only to find himself having a foxtail. The rumor about the foxtail spreads quickly among his village, and he is subjected to vicious bullying.

What is worse is that the rich widow Stengenføhn-Gnad from Oslo's best western edge wants the tail to adorn herself with. She tries to hire Solan Gundersen (En. Sonny Duckworth) (a cheerful and optimistic magpie), who together with his sidekick Ludvig (En. Lambert) (a nervous, pessimistic and melancholic hedgehog) has left Flåklypa to start a detective agency in Oslo. But instead, he seeks out Gurin to warn him of the rich widow. He gets help from Reodor Felgen (En. Theodore Rimspoke), who designs the machine Foxtail Detector to lead Solan and Ludvig on their quest.

Box office

The film was a great audience success with over 700,000 tickets sold and a gross of 26 million Krone ($3.2 million) when it went to Norwegian cinemas. [3] [1]

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