Sverre Hansen
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Bergen, Norway
Adult: No
Birthday: August 24, 1919
Age: 105 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: October 21, 1995
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Nine Lives
Overview: The movie takes place during World War II and depicts the true story of Jan Baalsruds amazing escape from the German army from the coast of Northern Norway and across the border to the neutral country Sweden.
Genres: Action War Thriller Drama Adventure
Original Language: no
Release Date: 1957-10-03
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Eggs
Overview: Two brothers in their seventies, Pa and Moe, have lived together all their lives in a little house in the country, the only interruption being when Pa made a weekend trip to Småland on his moped during the second World War. The past returns when his adult son dating from his Swedish visit, Konrad, comes to live with them after his mother has fallen ill. Soon Moe is about to discover that three is indeed a crowd...
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: no
Release Date: 1995-05-26
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One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
Overview: Fly-on-the-wall treatment of an ordinary day in the life of a prisoner in Stalin's Gulag. Closely adapted from Solzhenitsyn's classic novel based on his own experiences. Shot entirely on location in northern Norway
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-11-26
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Hans Nielsen Hauge
Overview: Hans Nielsen Hauge was a Norwegian reformer in the early 1800's both financially and spiritually.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: no
Release Date: 1961-02-11
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Støv på hjernen
Overview: The film is about suburban families, trying to be perfect housewives, and their theories in what is the right way of treating and accepting husbands and kids.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: no
Release Date: 1959-08-17
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Viva Villaveien!
Overview: Viva Villa Road deals with a handful of neighbors who completely unaware manages to go to Gran Canaria at the same time. For many, this would be a nice, but for Swedish Reidar Frank (Brass Brännström), pensioner Sigurd Vatne (Sverre Hansen) and crazy Alice Lindblad (Elsa Lystad) this is the worst thing that could have occurred. After countless neighborhood feuds they all had, by coincidence, decided to travel to the Canary Islands to escape the unwanted situation of Villa Road. Therefore, the disputes continue also in the holiday paradise of the other family members' great despair. This surprisingly leads to a lot of funny episodes that contain both problems with the travel company, absurd misunderstandings and intricate entanglement that eventually tie up to a pretty successful movie.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: no
Release Date: 1989-12-26
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John Gabriel Borkman
Overview: Based on a play by Henrik Ibsen (Norwegian)
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: no
Release Date: 1978-01-10
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The Master and His Servants
Overview: The Master and His Servants (Norwegian: Herren og hans tjenere) is a 1959 Norwegian drama film directed by Arne Skouen. The film is based on a 1955 play by Axel Kielland, who also plays a minor character in the film. The play and the film is based on a true story from Sweden. The Master and his Servants was entered into the 9th Berlin International Film Festival.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: no
Release Date: 1959-03-02
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Hunger
Overview: In 1890, Pontus, the starving writer, wanders the streets of Christiania, in search of love and a chance to get his work published. All he meets is defeat and suffering while his sense of reality is withering. One moment he is delighted and the next he curses everybody. All the time he manages to maintain human dignity and pride.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: da
Release Date: 1966-08-19
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Ugler i mosen
Overview: Oslo family the Monsens recieve uncle Pavel's house on the south coast of Norway after his passing. Mr. Monsen is also under the assumption that he has won 5000NOK in the lottery, though things are not as they seem. On an old record, the little girls hear uncle Pavel tell the story of a lost treasure buried somewhere in the house, but to find its location, one must solve 4 riddles.
Genres: Adventure Family Mystery
Original Language: no
Release Date: 1959-12-26
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Kristin Lavransdatter
Overview: The daughter of a prominent medieval Norway landowner, Kristin grows up in total harmony with the ideals of the time: strong family ties, social pride and devout Christianity. As she accepts the fact that she has been arranged to marry the son of another landowner, Kristin's beauty, innocence and purity evokes violent emotions around her: envy, lust, murder, revenge. She seeks refuge in a convent, awaiting marriage. Here, the passion of her life strikes, the knight Erlend Nikulaussonn. However, their love cannot be private, and suddenly Kristin is the centre of a scandal.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: no
Release Date: 1995-08-25
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King of Skating
Overview: The throne of ice skating sees a change of regent when Hans takes over as “The King”, and the sports press can’t seem to get enough of him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: no
Release Date: 1953-10-01
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Stompa & Co
Overview: Stein Oscar Magel Paus-Andersen (ST.O.M.P.A.) starts at Langåsen boarding school in Stakavik, where he meets his new friends Bodø, Bergen, Nøtterø and Sørlandet. They find themselves tangled up in troubles with a spider, a fire drill and a swimming contest leading to detention.
Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: no
Release Date: 1962-10-18
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Two Suspicious People
Overview: Two police officers lie dead. The swede Ekstrøm and the youngster Gustav flees the scene of the crime. Based on a real double murder in 1926, this movie remained almost unseen for 57 years. When the film was set to premiere in 1950 one of the murderers, having served a full sentence, went to court to have the film stopped.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: no
Release Date: 1950-12-31
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The Ashlad and His Good Helpers
Overview: Askeladden (Norwegian "The Ash Lad") is the main character in many Norwegian folktales.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: no
Release Date: 1961-01-01
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Cocktailparty
Overview: Lavinia has left her husband before a cocktail party. They have both had relationships. A foreign guest, Sir Henry, analyzes their marriage and relationship. Will they find their way back to each other again?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: no
Release Date: 1967-09-05
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Fru Biksby og oberstens skinnkåpe
Overview: A high comedy about a dental family with an office on the best western edge, where the lady of the house is mixed up in a delicate intrigue in her efforts to get a new fur.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: no
Release Date: 1974-11-03
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The Ballad of the Masterthief Ole Hoiland
Overview: Ballad of the Masterthief Ole Hoiland (Norwegian: Balladen om mestertyven Ole Høiland) is a 1970 Norwegian drama film directed by Knut Andersen, and starring a broad cast of notable Norwegian actors, headed by Per Jansen as Ole Høiland. Ole Høiland was an actual Norwegian Robin Hood-figure in the early 19th century. He steals from the rich and gives to the poor, enjoying numerous affairs with attractive women along the way. The story culminates in the ambitious burglary of Norges Bank, Norway's central bank.
Genres: Drama Comedy History
Original Language: no
Release Date: 1970-01-01
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Stop It!
Overview: After a dramatic car chase, the two 16-year-old boys try to get off on foot. However, a policeman pulls his weapon and shoots one of the boys in the back. Based on actual events.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: no
Release Date: 1980-08-28
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Sorte var de, med gullskimrende øyne
Overview: In the midst of an atomic war on Earth in the near future, a number of colonists are sent to establish an outpost on Mars. Strange events begin to affect the Terran life brought as part of the settlement effort, including the seeded grass sprouting purple, the family cow growing a third horn in the middle of its head, and other anomalies with the vegetable garden. Slowly people begin to show signs of transforming into Martians, as their limbs and bodies elongate and their irises turn to a shimmery gold, along with their skin darkening.
Genres: Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-01-10
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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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På stigende kurs
Overview: Struggling worker tries his luck in the stock market - with great success. But it doesn't last.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: no
Release Date: 1987-08-20
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Formynderne
Overview: Film about a woman's struggle in a male-dominated society in the late 1800s. Amalie Skram was one of our first female writers who fought woman liberation cause. In a society that did not accept that a woman could have its own independent work, it was difficult for a woman to work as a creative artist, wife and mother. The author's autobiographical novels "Professor Hieronimus" and "On St. Jorgen" underlies this film.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: no
Release Date: 1978-10-01
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Operasjon V for vanvidd
Overview: Five young men are planning a crime of forcing a plane down to rob the passengers.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-03-30
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Kalle and the Angels
Overview: Kalle and his dad is having a long planned summer holiday at his grandparents in the countryside, where has made a hang-glider as planned. But when the father falls down with it, and dies, only an angel keeps Kalle on his feet.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: no
Release Date: 1993-09-16
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Hennes meget kongelige høyhet
Overview: A princess falls in love with a man of the people, and their love must be a secret. But when someone takes a photo of them together, the scandal is a fact.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: no
Release Date: 1968-10-28
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Lik til salgs
Overview: Based on a play by Dario Fo.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: no
Release Date: 1968-02-13
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Min Marion
Overview: Marion is born limp and with a scarred face. Georg is also limp after a car accident. it takes more than a man to go together.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: no
Release Date: 1975-07-22
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Tobakkens uheldige virkninger
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: nb
Release Date: 1963-12-26
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