- HD 1080
- Runtime: 89m.
- Status: Released
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- Languages: no
- Country: Norway
- Director: Petter Næss
- Stars: Per Christian Ellefsen, Sven Nordin, Marit Pia Jacobsen, Jørgen Langhelle, Per Christensen
- keywords: mentally disabled, based on novel or book, male friendship, loss of virginity, poetry reading, male virgin, neurotic, oslo, norway
- Production_studio: Maipo Film
- Slogan: They're packed and ready for the greatest adventure of their lives. All they have to do is get out of the house.
- The Elling is featured in the top rankings of 2001
- #17 in Top Comedy Movies of 2001
- #50 in Top Drama Movies of 2001
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.
