Kitchen Stories
Salmer fra kjøkkenet (original)
Swedish efficiency researchers come to Norway for a study of Norwegian men, to optimize their use of their kitchen. Folke Nilsson (Tomas Norström) is assigned to study the habits of Isak Bjørvik (Joachim Calmeyer). By the rules of the research institute, Folke has to sit on an umpire's chair in Isak's kitchen and observe him from there, but never talk to him. Isak stops using his kitchen and observes Folke through a hole in the ceiling instead. However, the two lonely men slowly overcome the initial post-war Norwegian-Swede distrust and become friends.
Starring Joachim Calmeyer, Tomas Norström, Bjørn Floberg, Reine Brynolfsson, Sverre Anker Ousdal, Jan Gunnar Røise, Leif Andrée, Lennart Jähkel
Watch "Kitchen Stories" on Amazon released in 2003. It's a comedy and drama movie, and has a rating of 7.3 out of 10 from Imdb which is usually fine for this kind of movie, and is currently only available for purchase or rent.