I've had the DVD of this Norwegian movie Upperdog for ages and I finally decided to put it in my DVD player today and find out what the story is about! It's actually a very engaging story about siblings who got separated when they were adopted to two different families in Norway. They meet again because the Polish maid in the story is the best friend of one of the siblings and she works for the family of the other sibling who was adopted by a richer family.
The two actors here are quite hot! And I love it that they have many shirtless scenes! More on them in another article. I would definitely recommend this move. You have two Asian characters and one Norwegian and one Polish but 70% of the dialogue is in Norwegian, 30% in English. The story is interesting since it touches on a lot of topics - even the Afghanistan war!
Mads Sjøgård Pettersen was in the movie Upperdog which I just watched today. I enjoyed the movie a lot and Mads plays a very important role in it. He also gets to undress in some scenes and he looked pretty hot and cool. I love how calm his character is considering what the character went through in Afghanistan! I guess real guys just rein in their emotions and keep it all inside!
There are many Asians in Oslo so I am not surprised that in the Norwegian movie Upperdog, two of the main characters looked Asian. One of the female leads was Bang Chau, who played a girl from China who was adopted as a kid and now as an adult, she works as a chef in a Chinese restaurant. Bang plays the role very timidly and quite Asian really, quiet, keeps to herself and not very emotional. I love her character and the way she played!
I assume Agnieszka Grochowska is Polish and not Norwegian because she almost always spoke in English in the Norwegian movie Upperdog. She plays a Polish immigrant working as a maid and her best friend in the movie, played by Bang Chau, turned out to be the half-sister of Hermann Sabado's character, the son of her employers. Both ended up falling in love with each other! The movie is an intimate portrait of four people brought together by fate and Agnieszka is probably the one with the brightest personality among the four characters - even if she plays an immigrant mother who leaves her son in Poland.
