Full Theatrical Trailer For Norwegian Drug Drama THE LAST JOINT VENTURE

Yes, we've been looking forward to this one rather a lot, thanks in no small part to the acting one-two punch of Nicolai Cleve Broche and Kristoffer Joner - two of the very best the region has to offer - in the leads. Set in the end of the hippie era and based on a cult novel The Last Joint Venture casts Broche and Joner as a pair of stoner pot dealers swept up in the wave of harder drugs that burst on to the scene in the seventies. Here's the synopsis:

“Paranoid is when you think someone’s following you, but if you know it, that’s different, right?” says Carl in The Last Joint Venture. The final strains of the hippie decade are fading, and the 80s are looming ahead. Carl (Kristoffer Joner) and Robert (Nicolai Cleve Broch) are two wasters who live in harmony with the world, letting life slide by in an eternal cannabis haze. They earn their keep peddling small batches of hash, and feel they provide an essential supplement to the suffering populace.

Following the worst drought ever in Oslo’s streets, they now face the final score: forty-five keys of prime Nepali hash await distribution – and Carl and Robert are set to make a fortune. Finally they can realise their dream about a commune in the country!

But then Glen (Kåre Conradi) turns up, a financial backer with ambitious, coked-up plans. Carl and Robert are jolted out of the fog, and now have to fight back. Equipped with Afghan coats, a ghettoblaster and a battered Peugeot, they face a breathless, dramatic and hilarious trip through Oslo’s underworld and into the darkest forests of Norway.

The Last Joint Venture is based on Ingvar Ambjørnsens cult slacker novel about the transition from the idyllic 70s to the hardnosed egotism of the yuppie era. The film is directed by Ulrik Imtiaz Rolfsen, the creator of films like Izzat and Varg Veum – Bitter Flowers.

We posted the first teaser a while back and now the full theatrical trailer has arrived. It's an impressive bit of work, too ... the period detail draws you in at first but it quickly becomes clear that this is no nostalgia trip, there's a hard realism to it as well. Check both trailers below the break.