Kitchen Stories (2003)
Salmer fra kjøkkenet
ThumbScore
👍 74%audience score Estimated from TMDB user ratings and critic scores, calibrated to Google's former audience score. Google stopped publishing it in 2026.
Critics Score
🎬 83%
(RT: 91%, MC: 75) RT = Rotten Tomatoes (critic reviews). MC = Metacritic (weighted critic average). Critics Score is the average of both.
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Cast
Joachim Calmeyer as Isak Bjørvik
Tomas Norström as Folke Nilsson
Bjørn Floberg as Grant
Reine Brynolfsson as Malmberg
Sverre Anker Ousdal as Dr. Jack Zac. Benjaminsen
Gard B. Eidsvold as Bakkemann
Lennart Jähkel as Green
Leif Andrée as Dr. Ljungberg
Is Kitchen Stories good?
Most people think so. 74% audience score, estimated from 130 TMDB ratings. Critics agree, scoring it 83%.
Overview
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. Wikipedia ↗
