Petronella Barker
Biography: Petronella Barker (born 29 October 1965) is a British-born Norwegian actress. She was born in Colchester, England, but grew up in Fredrikstad, Norway. While still studying at the Theatre Academy in Oslo (1985–1988), she had her debut in the Russian-Norwegian co-production Dragens fange (Trees Grow on the Stones Too, 1985). Her breakthrough as a movie actress came with the dystopic Sweetwater (1988), followed by Havet stiger (The Ocean Rises, 1990). In 1990 she made her stage debut as Perdita in Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale at Centralteatret. Since then she has acted in several plays, also for Oslo Nye Teater and The National Theatre. Meanwhile she has continued doing roles both for TV and film, most prominently the movie Thranes metode (Thrane's Method, 1998), and the TV police series Fox Grønland (2001). Description above from the Wikipedia article Petronella Barker, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Birthday: October 29, 1965
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The Bothersome Man
2006-05-26
The Bothersome Man
Overview: Forty-year-old Andreas arrives in a strange city with no memory of how he got there. He is presented with a job, an apartment - even a wife. But before long, Andreas notices that something is wrong. Andreas makes an attempt to escape the city, but he discovers there's no way out. Andreas meets Hugo, who has found a crack in a wall in his cellar. Beautiful music streams out from the crack. Maybe it leads to "the other side"? A new plan for escape is hatched.
Genres: Comedy Drama Fantasy
Original Language: no
Release Date: 2006-05-26
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In Sickness and in Health
1975-05-21
In Sickness and in Health
Overview: A hard-working doctor must also carry the burden of a turbulent home life, due to the expectations of his demanding wife. Part of Thames Televison's Armchair Cinema.
Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-05-21
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Knockback: 2
1985-02-03
Knockback: 2
Overview: Alan and Sylvia fall in love and Alan gains a renewed sense of purpose. He begins to hope for an eventual release on licence. However both he and Sylvia have to face the fact that, for the foreseeable future, they cannot enjoy any physical intimacy. They decide to treat their affair as a long Victorian courtship.
Genres: Drama Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-02-03
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Varg Veum - The Writing on the Wall
2010-08-27
Varg Veum - The Writing on the Wall
Overview: Varg Veum is no longer working as a private investigator. He's got a permanent job as a teacher, and has calmed down his life, enjoying the domestic bliss with his new girlfriend Karin, but the idyll doesn't last long. Veum gets a brutal meeting with the past, when "The Knife" is released from prison, determined to take revenge on those who got him convicted for the murder of a teenage girl.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: no
Release Date: 2010-08-27
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Havet stiger
1990-12-26
Havet stiger
Overview: Set in the future when much of Central Europe has suffered ecological destruction and only small groups of survivors remain, a lost Norwegian reporter stumbles upon one such group and is quickly drawn into a drama involving a beautiful Christian missionary who's being held prisoner.
Genres: Science Fiction Drama
Original Language: no
Release Date: 1990-12-26
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Trees Grow on the Stones Too
1985-09-05
Trees Grow on the Stones Too
Overview: Vikings attack Kuksja's village, and end up bringing him along on their ship because they believe he is good luck. After proving himself in a battle against the dreaded Danes, chief Torir bestows upon him the name of Einar and takes him in as his son. Back home in Norway the men are received as heros, but new trouble arises when Kuksja falls in love with the beautiful Signy, who is already betroth to the vicious Sigurd.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1985-09-05
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Music for Weddings and Funerals
2002-08-22
Music for Weddings and Funerals
Overview: Sara, recently divorced and mourning the loss of her only child, rents her basement to Bogdan, a Serbian musician who brings the whole band along. As she learns more about her ex's infidelity, she wonders if Bogdan's lifestyle may be preferable to the manipulative starkness of her ex that ultimately lead to his murder.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: no
Release Date: 2002-08-22
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Victoria
2013-03-01
Victoria
Overview: A tragic love affair between Victoria and Johannes. She's the daughter of a rich estate owner and he's the son of a poor miller. Despite the deep love between them, her father makes Victoria ditch Johannes for the richer Otto.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: no
Release Date: 2013-03-01
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Hannibal Hopkins & Sir Anthony
2021-03-26
Hannibal Hopkins & Sir Anthony
Overview: Hopkins’ career has spanned several decades, which is why we will also use many interviews that he gave throughout his life, allowing us to put him back into the context of each period and will be helpful in understanding his role in the history of cinema, because he was far from following the trends. He never belonged to any film movement; he is a chameleon that has always preferred natural acting, ‘non-acting’ when method acting was the fashion.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-03-26
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The 7 Deadly Sins
2000-08-11
The 7 Deadly Sins
Overview: Feature film length collection of seven short films about the biblical seven sins by preliminary younger Norwegian directors.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: no
Release Date: 2000-08-11
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Ole Aleksander Filibom-bom-bom
1998-12-25
Ole Aleksander Filibom-bom-bom
Overview: Ole Aleksander leker i gangen, og forstyrrer mor som vasker ved å ringe på døren. Han får sin egen nøkkel, men det byr bare på flere forviklinger. Forteller: Anne-Cath. Vestly.
Genres: Family
Original Language: no
Release Date: 1998-12-25
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Haram
2014-10-03
Haram
Overview: Omar is a mid-level gangster in Oslo. A family secret is revealed when his "dead" sister isn't dead at all. Omar is ordered to find her. Joining him is his cousin and fellow gangster Khuram, and together they face an unknown Norway where his sister Amina has lead a secret and quite successful life.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: no
Release Date: 2014-10-03
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Underdog
2015-03-13
Underdog
Overview: Dino is 23 and dreams of a different life. She has left the mass unemployment of the Swedish provinces in search of happiness in nouveau-riche Oslo just like hundreds of thousands of other young Swedish people. But her new life has reached a deadlock. Dino finds herself stuck in a destructive sprial of temporary jobs, financial difficulties and wild partying. When she starts an extra job as as a housekeeper in a Norwegian middle-class home, she is thrown into a reality very far from her own.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2015-03-13
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Sweetwater
1988-09-14
Sweetwater
Overview: Allan and Lisa 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, looking for a better life on the outskirts of Sweetwater.
Genres: Drama Thriller Science Fiction
Original Language: no
Release Date: 1988-09-14
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A Serious Game
2016-09-09
A Serious Game
Overview: In the 1910s, journalist Arvid Stjärnblom and painter's daughter Lydia Stille fall in love with each other.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2016-09-09
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Dangerous Waters
1995-07-14
Dangerous Waters
Overview: A dangerous criminal, named Falken, robs a bank together with a redneck small-criminal. They have to take a hostage and escape in a racing boat. When the hostage jumps overboard they have to stay at a lighthouse to wait for a boat. Here the conflicts starts.
Genres: Thriller Action Comedy
Original Language: no
Release Date: 1995-07-14
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Fountain of Youth
2017-09-30
Fountain of Youth
Overview: Olav Astrup is a failed entrepreneur in his mid-twenties who has recently been refused contact with his newborn child. Without family or any form of social network, he turns to an eccentric gestalt therapist for guidance, and through their unconventional therapy sessions we get a glimpse into his innermost thoughts and feelings.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: no
Release Date: 2017-09-30
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Hawaii, Oslo
2004-09-24
Hawaii, Oslo
Overview: Hawaii, Oslo is the story of a handful of people who cross each other's path without necessarily knowing each other, during the hottest day of the year, in Oslo. We follow Frode and Milla. They are having their first child, who they are told will not live long. We follow Bobbie-Pop, a faded singer who tries to commit suicide. We follow Leon, an institutionalized kleptomaniac who is loking for Åsa, to whom he has a ten year old deal to get married. We meet Leon's brother, Trygve, who fetches Leon at the institution to celebrate his birthday, but who himself has plans to use his leave from prison to run away. And most of all we meet the angel Vidar, Leon's best buddy at the institution, who sees things no one else can see, and who may be able to save everyone - except himself?
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: no
Release Date: 2004-09-24
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Gåten Knut Hamsun
1996-12-26
Gåten Knut Hamsun
Overview: What is the answer to the riddle. What made the famous author, nobel prize winner, Knut Hamsun to support Hitler? 1945. The famous writer Knut Hamsun looks back to his youth., and compares his life with two of his works "Hunger" and "Mysteries".
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: no
Release Date: 1996-12-26
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The Blue Wolves
1993-08-06
The Blue Wolves
Overview: Pelle's father joins an activist group and Pelle has to face up to his father.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: no
Release Date: 1993-08-06
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Stress
2014-09-27
Stress
Overview: A workaholic father is encouraged to spend more time with his daughter. It turns out to be harder than he would think.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: no
Release Date: 2014-09-27
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Othello
1965-12-15
Othello
Overview: General Othello's marriage is destroyed when vengeful Ensign Iago convinces him that his new wife has been unfaithful.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-12-15
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Thranes metode
1998-06-05
Thranes metode
Overview: Thrane has always had his own method of dealing with life. He tends to slip away. But when he sees beautiful Mol the same day he moves to a new apartment, he knows he'll be staying, even though she's married. Her husband is away workdays. Starring one of Norways finest actors; Bjørn Sundqvist.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: no
Release Date: 1998-06-05
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Gritt
2021-03-26
Gritt
Overview: The troubled artist Gritt is struggling for relevance and belonging in an unwelcoming society, but then she undergoes a radicalization process in the name of art.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: no
Release Date: 2021-03-26
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The Ash Lad: In Search of the Golden Castle
2019-08-23
The Ash Lad: In Search of the Golden Castle
Overview: When the King and Queen are poisoned, brothers Per and Pål get arrested, suspected of being behind it. Younger brother Espen "Ash Lad" and Princess Kristin set out on a quest to find the mythical Soria Moria castle, which is said to be built of pure gold. In Soria Moria, there sits a well containing the Water of Life; the only thing that can cure Kristin's parents. But some wicked Danes are also on the hunt to find the castle. If Espen and Kristin fail, it will spell the end for the brothers, the kingdom - and perhaps the entire world.
Genres: Fantasy Adventure
Original Language: no
Release Date: 2019-08-23
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Thomas Hardy: A Haunted Man
1978-03-05
Thomas Hardy: A Haunted Man
Overview: Drama documentary from 1978 exploring the private feelings of novelist Thomas Hardy through the poems of love and remorse that he wrote after the death of his first wife, Emma.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-03-05
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