Two Norwegian boys come of age in this dark drama with comic and tragic elements. Read More »
Tag Archives: Norway
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 »
Edvard Munch (1974) Peter Watkins, Geir Westby, Gro Fraas, Kerstii Allum
Following a rough chronology from 1884 to 1894, when Norwegian artist Edvard Munch began expressionism Read More »
Jackpot (2011) Magnus Martens, Kyrre Hellum, Mads Ousdal, Henrik Mestad
Terrified and bloody, Oscar Svendsen awakes clinched to a shotgun in a strippers joint. Read More »
Bridal Procession In Hardanger (1926) Rasmus Breistein, Aase Bye, Gunhild Schytte-Jacobsen, Henry Gleditsch
Based on the novel “Marit Skjølte” by Kristofer Janson, this Norwegian silent movie tells the story of young Marit and her love Read More »
Next Door (2005) Pål Sletaune, Kristoffer Joner, Cecilie A. Mosli, Julia Schacht
A psychological thriller, where the main character, John, have recently been dumped by his girlfriend, Ingrid. Read More »
Death is a Caress (1949) Edith Carlmar, Claus Wiese, Bjørg Riiser-Larsen, Eva Bergh
The story of a working man,who’s got a gorgeous fiancée but who falls for a rich older woman — who turns out to be a femme fatale. Read More »
The Greatest Gamble (1967) Knut Bohwim, Gard Øyen, Carl Henrik Størmer, Sverre Anker Ousdal
A young Norwegian man joins the Nazi-collaborating Quisling movement in order to relay information to the resistance. Read More »
Lake of the Dead (1958) Kåre Bergstrøm, André Bjerke, Bjørg Engh, Henki Kolstad
A group of friends travel to a cabin in the Norwegian forest. It’s a rumor that at night a crazy man can be heard screaming at a lake nearby the cabin. Read More »
The Look of Silence (2014) Joshua Oppenheimer, Adi Rukun, M.Y. Basrun, Amir Hasan, Documentary, Biography, History
An Indonesian man with a communist background named Ramli was brutally murdered when the “Communist” purge occurred in 1965. Read More »
Hamsun (1996) Jan Troell, Max von Sydow, Ghita Nørby, Anette Hoff, Biography, Drama, War
Knut Hamsun is Norway’s most famous and respected writer. Ever since he was young he’s despised the English because of the starvation that they caused Norway through WWI. Read More »
Wives (1975) Anja Breien, Anne Marie Ottersen, Katja Medbøe, Frøydis Armand, Comedy, Drama
Though they were friends in school, the three women in this movie have not kept in touch. When they meet at an alumni meeting, they go off on a three-day jaunt together. Read More »
Høyere enn himmelen / Beyond the Sky (1993) Berit Nesheim
Based upon the novel by Klaus Hagerup, we follow the grumpy 12 year old Mari, without any friends, not at all content with her body or her family. Read More »