Austria's Andreas Matt won silver, while Norway's Audun Groenvold trailed by some distance in third.

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Audun Sletten, who is all potential, may well not waste his life, as Albert Finney promises not to do.

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Audun is a working-class Oslo boy, and not without his troubles.

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The Count (magnificently performed by Audun Iversen) is a stoner outfitted by Blades, Cherubino's randiness (gloriously conveyed by Isabel Leonard) also owes something to wacky baccy, and the Countess (Sally Matthews) melts your heart despite wearing an eye-bothering psychedelic gown.

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