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Actors: Anni-Kristiina Jusso, Mikal Gaup, Mikael Persbrandt, Björn Sundquist, Michael Nyqvist
Synopsis: Norwegian director Nils Gaup takes the helm for this sweeping Nordic epic tracing the struggle of the indigenous Sami people against the Swedish exploiters who reap the profits of their misery and desperation. Swedish entrepreneur Ruth (Mikael Persbrandt) is the proprietor of a Kautokeino trading Read More
Actors: Björn Sundquist, Gard Eidsvold, Hildegun Riise
Actors: Aksel Hennie, Laila Goody, Fridtjov Saheim, Marit A. Andreassen, Björn Sundquist
Synopsis: Jonny Vang is a comedy about longtime friends involved in a love triangle. Jonny (Aksel Hennie), Tuva (Laila Goody), and Magnus (Fridtjov Saheim) were all close friends as children. Now that they have grown, Tuva and Magnus are married and have a son. Magnus' recent behavior leads Tuva to believe Read More
Actors: Reidar Sorensen, Gaute Skjegstad, Trond Hovik, Laila Goody, Stig Henrik Hoff
Synopsis: In this crime drama from Norway that's laced with dark comedy, a young woman with Down's syndrome is found raped and murdered in a small working-class town, and a detective from Oslo is brought in to investigate. The key suspects are two brothers; one of them is found dead, drowned in a nearby Read More
Actors: Robert Skjærstad, Björn Sundquist, Andrine Saether, Trond Hovik
Synopsis: Following up on his popular debut Junk Mail, Pal Sletaune spins this deadpan comedy about bullies and victims, fast food, and death metal. Jan Robert Skjaerstad is a nebbish blithely optimistic would-be lunch counter restaurateur fending off his sleazy landlord and his bullying passive-aggressive Read More
Actors: Gisken Armand, Per Egil Aske, Kristin Kajander
Synopsis: Berit Nesheim directs this Norwegian thriller about a woman who discovers a corpse in a river and does not report it. ~ Jonathan Crow, All Movie Guide Read More
Actors: Björn Sundquist, Petronella Barker, Nils Ole Oftebro, Kai Remlov, Hege Schoyen
Synopsis: Based on a short story by noted Norwegian writer Oystein Lonn, Thranes Metode/Thrane's Method concerns the slowly developing attraction between two people living in the same apartment building. Thrane (Bjorn Sundquist) has money but no job, and has spent much of his life drifting from one place to Read More
Actors: Kjersti Elvik, Lasse Lolsrud, Anne Ryg, Björn Sundquist, Nils Ole Oftebro
Synopsis: Carl Jorgen Kionig directed this Norwegian police thriller, winner of the Norwegian Amanda award for the year's best film. Axel Hellstenius' screenplay is adapted from a novel by Norway's justice minister Anne Holt. Lesbian policewoman Hanne Wilhelmsen (Kjersti Elvik), who has a live-in lover Read More
Synopsis: A Scandinavian youth listens in awe as his grandfather tells him the light-hearted tale of a vagabond who wanders into a troubled post-WW II Lapp town and is mistakenly welcomed as a government minister. According to the happy townsfolk, the fellow has come to oversee reconstruction and to help Read More
Actors: Marie Theisen, Björn Sundquist
Synopsis: Set in Norway during the 1950s, this dark comedy chronicles the coming-of-age of a rebellious daughter of a rural priest who was born and raised in a repressive tiny village. The problem is that moody Maria is terribly aware of her burgeoning sexuality. At times not succumbing to the insistent Read More
Synopsis: Two Norwegian boys come of age in this dark drama with comic and tragic elements. The film is set in the 1960's. Naive Otto Olsen is the 16-year old son of working class parents. He is externally a very quiet boy, but internally something else abides. Otto is on a soccer team, but he is always on Read More
Synopsis: This Scandinavian tragedy is based on a novel by Knut Hamsun and centers on the reminiscences of Lt. Thomas Glahn, a big-game hunter, as he reflects upon the woman who continues to haunt him even though he has "quite forgotten" her. The story jumps back four years. It is summer in an isolated Read More
Actors: Stellan Skarsgård, Garb B. Eidsvold, Björn Sundquist, Camilla Martens
Synopsis: A sort of Arctic existentialist drama, this Norwegian film was mostly shot in bleak conditions on a frigid island off the northern Scandanavian coast. It is based on a novel about a poet in Oslo in the 1920s, Henrik Larsen (Garb B. Eidsvold). He wants to marry Gertrude (Camilla Martens), but she Read More
Actors: Ingvild Holm, Bjorn Willberg Andersen, Björn Sundquist, Liv Ullmann, Bibi Andersson
Synopsis: This artistically produced Swedish philosophical drama, filmed in black-and-white, is adapted from Strindberg's 1902 play. Using a combination of Biblical reference, classic mythology, and poetry it depicts God's daughter as she reflects upon the state of humanity. Agnes descends from Heaven to Read More
Synopsis: After a series of ever more daring raids on laboratories and farms to rescue what they believe are mistreated animals, a radical commune of animal liberationists find themselves under a vicious attack by the very groups they had expected the least trouble from: other (more moderate) animal Read More
Actors: Bjørn Floberg, Marie Richardson, Jarl Kulle, Ole Ernst, Kjersti Holmen
Synopsis: Ove Rolandsen (Bjørn Floberg) is preoccupied with getting ahead in the world, and having a bit of fun while he does that. It's 1903, and he works as a telegraph operator in a town on the northern coast of Norway. He'd also like to marry Elise (Marie Richardson), the daughter of a local factory Read More
Actors: Stian Smestad, Gabriel Byrne, Louisa Haigh, Trond Peter Stamso Munch, Björn Sundquist
Synopsis: Based on the novel Haakon Haakonsen, Shipwrecked is a family film about a cabin boy (Stian Smestad) whose ship is hit by a hurricane just before it is about to be ambushed by pirates. The boy and his stowaway friend wash up on a South Seas island which happens to be where the pirates' treasure is Read More
Actors: Björn Sundquist
Synopsis: Based on the evidence of this and similar Scandinavian films, one would have imagined that the majority of their filmmakers would enter the ancient debate on the inherent goodness or lack of it in mankind on the side of those who find humanity inherently lacking. In the story, Robert is an elderly Read More
Synopsis: In this teen melodrama, to boys figure out that the principal of a reform school is using his well-connected youths to run a drug ring. He's also taking undue advantage of many of the teenaged girls committed to his care. One of them falls in love with a girl the principal has raped, and the boys Read More
Actors: Michael Kitchen, Björn Sundquist, Marika Lagercrantz
Synopsis: In this action drama, after putting in a full shift, two deep sea divers return to the deep to perform a quick repair to a piece of equipment and wind up trapped 100 yards below the surface for hours, and before long they are cut off from the lines which connect them to the surface. Frantic Read More
Actors: Espen Skjønberg, Per Jansen
Synopsis: Old Martin (Espen Skjonberg) is haunted by his past, and he has a lot to be haunted by. When he was a young man (Nicolay Lange-Nielsen) his uncle gave him the money to set up business in the wilds of western Norway as a horse trader. His uncle also entrusted a girl, Anna (Camilla Strom Henriksen) Read More
Actors: Bentein Baardson, Petronella Barker, Alphonsia Emmanuel, Per Jansen, Sven Wollter
Synopsis: Allan (Bentein Baardson) and Lisa (Petronella Barker) flee the war-torn city of Sweetwater with their young son for the safety of the municipal dump in this sleepy war drama. They join other displaced survivors who were driven from their homes. After Lisa gives birth to another child and Allan has Read More
Actors: Björn Sundquist, Sverre Anker Ousdal, Inger Lise Rypdal, Finn Kvalem
Actors: Sverre Anker Ousdal, Ewa Carlsson, Ellen Horn, Toralv Maurstad, Jack Fjeldstad
Synopsis: A Norwegian doctor is pursued by NATO agents when he uncovers evidence of a radiation leak in this political exploitation thriller. He is chased by police in cahoots with the military who want to silence him from revealing the fact that a ship in the Arctic Circle is doomed to radioactive Read More
Synopsis: This gripping psychological drama/mystery from Norway is based on the true story of two resistance members who were accused of murdering two old Jewish brothers, Rakel and Jacob Feldmann who were trying to escape Nazi-controlled Norway during WW II. The trial took place after the war, and Read More
Actors: Stein Bjorn, Björn Sundquist, Arja Saijonmaa, Sven Wollter, Anitta Suikkari
Synopsis: This is a tale that has an epic scope in scenery -- the northern snow-covered lands of coastal Norway -- and is dramatized by moments of tumultuous stormy weather. But the focus is on Heikki (Stein Bjorn) a young man who is inspired by the northern lights to take a horse-drawn sled and make his Read More
Actors: Terje Kristiansen, Vibeke Lökkeberg, Tonje Kamilla Kristiansen, Eva von Hanno, Klaus Hagerup
Synopsis: Terje Kristiansen wrote, directed, starred, and produced this run-of-the-mill tragi-comedy about Arne (Kristiansen) a twice-married, once-divorced father of various children who cannot adequately handle anything more serious than a hangnail. He is flummoxed by any real trouble at home or at work Read More
Actors: Björn Sundquist, Reidun Nortvedt, Trini Lund, Bjørn Floberg
Synopsis: Kronprinsen is a talky, specialized political drama about Roald (Bjorn Sundquist), a young man stuck in the wrong place at the wrong time. Roald is politically ambitious but he does not have enough real-world savvy to protect himself from the shark-infested waters around him. After all, he has Read More
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