Aberdeen is a 2000 drama film

Drama film

A drama film is a film genre that depends mostly on in-depth development of realistic characters dealing with emotional themes. Dramatic themes such as alcoholism, drug addiction, infidelity, moral dilemmas, racial prejudice, religious intolerance, poverty, class divisions, violence against women...

 directed by Hans Petter Moland

Hans Petter Moland

Hans Petter Moland is a Norwegian film director. Hans Petter was the first born son of Odd Moland and Sigrid Eid Moland, and has a younger brother named Morten Moland. He is a film graduate from Emerson College in the United States. When living in Boston Hans Petter met a college student Elizabeth...

, starring Stellan Skarsgård

Stellan Skarsgård

Stellan John Skarsgård is a Swedish actor, known internationally for his film roles in Angels & Demons, Breaking the Waves, The Hunt for Red October, Ronin, Good Will Hunting, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest, Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End, Dominion: Prequel to the Exorcist,...

, Lena Headey

Lena Headey

Lena Headey is an English actress. Headey's performance in a one-off show when she was 17 caught the attention of a casting agent, who took a photo and asked her to audition and eventually she got a supporting role alongside Jeremy Irons and Ethan Hawke in the 1992 British drama film Waterland and...

 and Charlotte Rampling

Charlotte Rampling

Charlotte Rampling, OBE is an English actress. Her career spans four decades in English-language as well as French and Italian cinema.- Early life :...

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Cast

• Stellan Skarsgård
  Stellan Skarsgård
  Stellan John Skarsgård is a Swedish actor, known internationally for his film roles in Angels & Demons, Breaking the Waves, The Hunt for Red October, Ronin, Good Will Hunting, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest, Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End, Dominion: Prequel to the Exorcist,...
  
   - Tomas Heller
• Jean Anderson
  Jean Anderson
  Jean Anderson was an English actress born in Eastbourne, Sussex. She is best remembered for her television roles as hard-faced matriarch Mary Hammond in the 1970s BBC drama The Brothers and as rebellious aristocrat Lady Jocelyn "Joss" Holbrook in the 1980s Second World War series Tenko .She is...
  
   - Young Kaisa
• Lena Headey
  Lena Headey
  Lena Headey is an English actress. Headey's performance in a one-off show when she was 17 caught the attention of a casting agent, who took a photo and asked her to audition and eventually she got a supporting role alongside Jeremy Irons and Ethan Hawke in the 1992 British drama film Waterland and...
  
   - Kairo 'Kaisa' Heller
• Charlotte Rampling
  Charlotte Rampling
  Charlotte Rampling, OBE is an English actress. Her career spans four decades in English-language as well as French and Italian cinema.- Early life :...
  
   - Helen
• Ian Hart
  Ian Hart
  Ian Hart is an English stage, television and film actor.-Early life:Hart, the grandson of Irish immigrants, was born in Liverpool, Merseyside, England. He is one of three siblings and was brought up in a Roman Catholic family...
  
   - Clive
• Louise Goodall - Sara
• Jason Hetherington
  Jason Hetherington
  Jason Hetherington is an Australian former rugby league footballer of the 1990s and 2000s. He established himself as a hooker, but he started his career off as a five-eighth. Hetherington played club football for the Gold Coast Chargers and the Bulldogs in Australia, winning a premiership with the...
  
   - Perkins
• Kate Lynn Evans - Emily
• John Killoran - Blake
• Fergis McLarnon - Eric
• Anders T. Andersen - Customs Official
• Nina Andresen Borud - Flight Attendant
• Henriette Steenstrup - Car Rental Clerk
• Kari Simonsen
  Kari Simonsen
  Kari Simonsen is a Norwegian actress. She made her professional stage debut at Folketeatret in 1959. She was appointed at Oslo Nye Teater from 1960 to 1972, and at Nationaltheatret from 1974. She has also played for radio and television, and had guest appearances at the revue stages Chat Noir and...
  
   - Waitress
• J.J. Mckeown - Boy at door
• Jan Grønli - Granbakken
• Gard Eidsvold - Disagreeable Man

Trivia

The song Skarsgård hums throughout the movie and eventually is played in the end scene is the Swedish

Sweden

Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....

 song "Balladen om herr Fredrik Åkare och den söta fröken Cecilia Lind" by Cornelis Vreeswijk

Cornelis Vreeswijk

Cornelis Vreeswijk , was a singer-songwriter, poet and actor born in IJmuiden in the Netherlands.He emigrated to Sweden with his parents in 1949 at the age of twelve. He was educated as a social worker and hoped to become a journalist, but became increasingly involved in music, performing at...

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Despite being called "Aberdeen", the film is not set within the Scottish City of Aberdeen

Aberdeen

Aberdeen is Scotland's third most populous city, one of Scotland's 32 local government council areas and the United Kingdom's 25th most populous city, with an official population estimate of ....

, although the North East City has many links with Norway and its heritage. However, the characters are linked by the City.