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Original title Kung Fury
Film type Short
Category Fiction
Form Partly animated
Director
Producer
Screenplay
Production country
Production company
Awards

Cast

David Sandberg
Kung Fury

Jorma Taccone
Adolf Hitler

Leopold Nilsson
Hacker Man

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Plot summary

Kung Fury is a Miami Police Department detective and a martial arts master. In the aftermath of the deaths of his colleague cops - at the hand of Adolf Hitler, a.k.a. "Kung Führer" - he...

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Titles

Original title
Swedish release title
International title

Crew

Director
Screenplay
Producer
Director of Photography
Film Editor
Sound Design
Associate Producer
Co-producer
Executive Producer
Production Coordinator
Film Commissioner
Assistant Cameraman
Aerial Photography
Gaffer
Compositor
Assistant Film Editor
Foley Artist
Storyboard
Other Crew

Cast

David Sandberg Kung Fury
Jorma Taccone Adolf Hitler
Leopold Nilsson Hacker Man
Steven Chew Dragon
Andreas Cahling Thor
Hörnqvist Erik Triceracop
Eleni Young Karlsson (as Eleni Young) Barbarianna
Helene Ahlson Katana
Per-Henrik Arvidius Chief
Björn Gustafsson Private Lahmstache
Magnus Betnér Colonel Reichstache
Eos Karlsson Red Ninja
David Hasselhoff Hoff 9000
- Röstskådespelare:
Frank Sanderson Cobra/Dinomite/Triceracop
Yasmina Suhonen Katana
Per-Henrik Arvidius Thor
Hannes Sigrell poliskonstapel

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Plot summary

Kung Fury is a Miami Police Department detective and a martial arts master. In the aftermath of the deaths of his colleague cops - at the hand of Adolf Hitler, a.k.a. "Kung Führer" - he decides to travel back in time from the 1980's to World War II in order to kill the Nazi leader, but an error occurs and the time machine sends him further back to the Viking Age.

Technical specifications

Length in minutes 30 min


Release dates

TV showing 2015-05-28 SVT2 Sweden 30 min
2015-08-05 SVT2 Sweden
Festival showing 2015-10-19 Slottsbiografen Uppsala Sweden 30 min 34:e Uppsala Internationella Kortfilmfestival, 2015.
2015-10-20 Fyrisbiografen Uppsala Sweden 30 min 34:e Uppsala Internationella Kortfilmfestival, 2015. Moving Sweden-paket.
2016-10-26 Fyris Uppsala Sweden 30 min 35:e Uppsala Internationella Kortfilmfestival, 2016.

Awards

The Guldbagge Award Stockholm 2016 Best Short Film
Festival Award Vila do Conde 2015 (bästa eurpeiska kortfilm / Best European Short, Curtas Vila do Conde, Portugal)
Vila do Conde 2015 (publikpris / Audience Award, Curtas Vila do Conde, Portugal)
Venice 2015 (Venice Short Film Nomination for the European Film Awards, Italien)
Newcastle upon Tyne 2015 (publikpris / Audience Award, Cutting Edge Film Festival, Storbritannien)

Holdings Film

The information given here refers to film material in the Swedish Film Institute’s archive. Access to the archive’s stock is given on request, for research, other film archives and rights’ holders. For enquiries please contact filmarkivet@filminstitutet.se

Element type Digitalt visningsmaterial
Carrier type ProRes


Element type Digitalt arkivmaterial
Carrier type MAP


Holdings Posters

Size About 70 x 100 cm
Quantity 2


Holdings Scripts

Script type Dialoglista
Extent 3 s. Tidsangivelser.
Language English


Script type Dialoglista
Extent 4 s.
Language English


Script type För- och eftertexter
Extent 12 s.
Language English


Script type Dialoglista
Extent 17 s. Tidsangivelser.
Language Swedish


Script type Inspelningsmanus
Script title Kung-Fury av David Sandberg.
Extent 26 s.
Language English


Script type Musiklista
Extent 1 s.
Language English



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