Pornostjerne?Pornostar? / Porn Star?

Competition Documentaries, Norway 2007, 84 Min., English subtitles

Pornostjerne?

‘Team Rocco’ wears t-shirts sporting the slogan ‘Norwegian Hardcore’, which is to be taken literally. At an age of merely 22, the film group’s name-giver and boss, Thomas ‘Rocco’ Hansen, is Norway’s best-known and most successful porno film actor and producer. Over the course of almost two years, documentary filmmaker John Sullivan accompanied Rocco and his girlfriend Line with a camera: at film shoots in nightclubs and their own flat, on casting tours, at parties and interview dates. In Norway Rocco Hansen has star-appeal. He offers schoolboys and –girls are the opportunity of a career and they see him as a hero, maybe even as a rebel against the establishment. While Rocco is shown autographing girls’ breasts and making a 'guest appearance’ in a respectable TV series, his girlfriend looks back in a surprisingly reflective voiceover commentary that makes the rules of the business transparent even to outsiders.

Director John Sullivan

Screenplay John Sullivan

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