40-year-old Elling, sensitive, would-be poet, is sent to live in a state institution when his mother, who has sheltered him his entire life, dies. There he meets Kjell Bjarne, a gentle giant and female-obsessed virgin, also in his 40s.

• Maipo Film
• Per Christian Ellefsen
• Sven Nordin
• Marit Pia Jacobsen
• Jørgen Langhelle
• Per Christensen
• Hilde Olausson
• Ola Otnes
• Eli Anne Linnestad