The old sea-captain retires, but the next day German WWII occupation of Norway begins. He then kisses his wife good-bye and is off to Army HQ. Read More »
Tag Archives: Norway
In the Presence of a Clown AKA Larmar och gör sig till (1997) Ingmar Bergman, Börje Ahlstedt, Marie Richardson, Erland Josephson
Inventor Carl Åkerblom is a rosy-cheeked 54 year-old admirer of Franz Schubert – and a patient in the psychiatric ward Read More »
Cold Light AKA Kaldaljós (2004) Hilmar Oddsson, Ingvar Eggert Sigurðsson, Unnur Ösp Stefánsdóttir, Ruth Olafsdottir
A 40-year-old is hiding in a self-made prison of mundane life. Read More »
Blind Spot (2018) Blindsone – Tuva Novotny
BLIND SPOT is a story about the grey zones in mental illness; the blind spots hard to discover Read More »
Valley of Shadows AKA Skyggenes dal (2017) Jonas Matzow Gulbrandsen, Adam Ekeli, Kathrine Fagerland, John Olav Nilsen
Between the sea and the mountains in a small village in Norway, Aslak (6) lives with his mother Astrid. Read More »
De blå ulvene / Blue Wolves (1993) Morten Kolstad, Håvard Bakke, Tommy Karlsen, Viggo Jønsberg
This time Pelle’s father joins an activist group and Pelle has to face up to his father. Read More »
Cross My Heart And Hope To Die (1994) Marius Holst, Martin Dahl Garfalk, Trond Halbo, Jan Devo Kornstad
Two Norwegian boys come of age in this dark drama with comic and tragic elements. Read More »
Two Suspicious People (1950) Tancred Ibsen, Peter Lindgren, Ivar Svendsen, Britta Lech-Hanssen
The movie is based on a documentary-crime novel by author Gunnar Larsen written in 1933, which in turn was based on a true story that shocked Norway. Read More »
Victoria (2013) Torun Lian, Iben Akerlie, Jakob Oftebro, Bill Skarsgård
A dramatizing of Knut Hamsun’s famous novel from 1898, Victoria, which is about the tragic Read More »
Blind (2014) Eskil Vogt, Ellen Dorrit Petersen, Henrik Rafaelsen, Vera Vitali
Ingrid is blind. She lives with her husband Morten. As soon as he is out of the house, she sits at the window with a cup of tea Read More »