Egil Hjorth-Jenssen
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Halden, Norway
Birthday: April 18, 1893
Deathday: November 08, 1969
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Heaven and Hell
Overview: Norwegian propaganda film and cult drama about Eva (16) and Arne (17), both from well established homes, attend a class where a professor says that cannabis is safer than alcohol. Together with some friends they decide to try the drug. The start of a drug hell for all involved. The film was poorly received by the critics, but it nonetheless became one of the highest-grossing theater films in Norway in 1969
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: no
Release Date: 1969-08-27
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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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Nothing but Troubles
Overview: The working-class family Bråten is living in a top floor of a tenement house on the outskirts of Oslo. The family includes three sons and two daughters, mother and father in one room and kitchen. Mother Hulda is the family hub while Mr.Bråten itself is a silent and withdrawn worker. Children contribute in their own way to the neighbors are right when they exclaim: Never anything but trouble! There are problems for all when the police come into the picture after the one his son is participating in a car theft. Middle of all this chaos, 16-year-old Maiken (Vigdis Røising) moves out and seek questionable friends, which brings her into conflict with his father. A tragedy brings the family together again.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: no
Release Date: 1954-08-30
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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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Lend Me Your Wife
Overview: This is a light comedy from Edith Carlmar, Norways first woman director. It takes place in a company that sells baby toys. It is time to fill a leading position, and it is known the owner of the company only places married men on leading positions. This leads a young bachelor to "borrow" his best friends wife to have a chance at the position. This leads to a lot of comic misunderstandings, not the least because the owner of the company himself falls for the new young wife.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: no
Release Date: 1958-09-03
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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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Sønner av Norge
Overview: A slice of life in 'Solbråten' where citizens are concerned with everyday many chores. In particular, men busy. They struggle with a resident's association, volunteers and home protection so they hardly have time to eat before they sleep dinner. They thrown in must go into work do not life easier.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: no
Release Date: 1961-01-01
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Operasjon Løvsprett
Overview: A group of very different men are summoned for their refresher training at Haglemoen military camp. One more strange than the other, we get to meet jovial salesman Goggen Rask, car mechanic Bottolph Johansen, nicknamed daydreamer, and ship-owner Rieber Larsen Jr. They form an unruly faction which Major Kampstrup struggles to maintain structured and prepared, not to mention keeping them inside the camp premises before they pretend sick to see the nurses Bitten and Florence. The men do their best to get through their rigourous training, with great confusion and comical situations.
Genres: Comedy War
Original Language: no
Release Date: 1962-01-01
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The Bus
Overview: Thorvald runs a local bus route, with a 1923-model bus nicknamed 'Gamla', in the Norwegian country side. Thorvald himself always takes time to make numerous stops along his route to help out with the smallest of problems. The old man is so caring he sometimes forgets to charge money from his travelers. But modern times are lurking on the doorstep - in the figure of a grumpy county official and an offer from an outside bus company.
Genres: Comedy Drama Family
Original Language: no
Release Date: 1961-10-16
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Troll-Elgen
Overview: This the story of a wizard elk - Rauten, as people called him. He was a human being in animal guise. The story begins in Ré Valley, which lies like a yawning gap between mountains, long and flat with borders of forests so dark that they look as though part of the blackness of night lingered in them. A river moves sluggishly along the bottom of the valley, making its way slowly and carefully between stretches of light-red sand. It runs northwards, a rare thing in Norway.
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: no
Release Date: 1927-12-26
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Musicians
Overview: A caretaker at a music academy is solving most problems for the young musicians, however not only the most appropriate way. But down inside he really has a dream of his own, which goes far beyond being the caretaker.
Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: no
Release Date: 1967-08-29
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The Princess That No One Could Match
Overview: Based on the Norwegian fairytale.
Genres: Adventure Family
Original Language: no
Release Date: 1932-05-02
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Heksenetter
Overview: In the end of the great war and general major Arthur Ranlow orders an attack on an enemy atomic installation. He sends some men he suspects having a good eye towards his wife. Years later he is confronted with this under an occult session.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: no
Release Date: 1954-08-23
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Sankt Hans fest
Overview: Based on the novel by Alexander Kielland.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: no
Release Date: 1947-04-07
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Bustenskjold
Overview: Bustenskjold is a Norwegian film of 1958. The film is based on comic book Jens von Bustenskjold . Leif Juster starred as Jens von Bustenskjold . Helge Lunde directed the film.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: no
Release Date: 1958-12-26
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Veien tilbake
Overview: We meet the young violinist Øyvind Dahl at a time when everything has weighed him down and he is completely desperate for alcohol. He has left his wife and children and has teamed up with emaciated artists and suspicious individuals, and obtains his daily liquor by mortgaging his last possessions, even the wedding ring, and by pitifully barring money.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: no
Release Date: 1960-03-10
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Oss atomforskere i mellom
Overview: Mopedersen and Claus Grønn is starting as assistants of a professor who researchers in the use of atomic dust when a gang steals the formula and kidnaps the researchers.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: no
Release Date: 1961-08-17
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Surrounded
Overview: Filmen beskriver hvordan motstandsmannen Knut Magne Haugland i 1944 opererte en illegal telegrafi-stasjon på Rikshospitalets tak under den andre verdenskrig.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: no
Release Date: 1960-01-01
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The Disappearance of a Young Wife
Overview: The young wife of an upper-class academic disappears while her husband is on holiday. In his search for her, the husband learns that there was much he did not know both about her past and about their relationship.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: no
Release Date: 1953-08-26
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The Mysterious Apartment
Overview: A conservative old bachelor buys an apartment previously owned by an artist who died suddenly. He has a weird feeling about the place from the start, and gets more and more obsessed by the previous owner's possessions and way of living. Finding some loveletters written by the deceased's mistress, Dott, gives him an irressistible urge to get to know her better.
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: no
Release Date: 1948-11-01
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Gylne ungdom
Overview: Student Tom Polden lives in difficult conditions at home. His mother lives constantly on the memories of her deceased husband. Her little hat shop is rather poor and the economy is peal. Tom constantly hear about the magnificent father, and becomes a big blow when he overhears his father shot himself because he had embezzled a substantial amount of money.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: no
Release Date: 1956-08-19
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Maimed
Overview: In "Skadeskutt" we follow the couple Einar and Else Wang in a painful drama about love, happiness, sorrow and eternal damnation. About a couple's struggle trying to get pregnant and the despair of not succeeding. About psychological disorders and the society's insane judging of people with such problems. A nationwide press was impressed with "Skadeskutt". The director Edith Carlmar, one of the first female directors in Norway, was compared with Hitchcock for her work. For actor Carsten Winger, his portrayal of the character in the movie was considered a victory and a big achievement. "A sure success", "Impressive" and "A victory for Norwegian Films" are some lines from the critics. "Skadeskutt" is one of the breakthroughs within Norwegian film making.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: no
Release Date: 1951-08-26
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Unknown Man's Story
Overview: Erik Dahl escapes from prison where he is serving a sentence for smuggling. He seeks out his family, but the police have already been there, and he will have to flee. Erik alters their appearance and start a new life as fishmonger in a small town, but he plans to leave the country...
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: no
Release Date: 1951-11-19
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Op med hodet!
Overview: A Norwegian comedy
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: no
Release Date: 1933-10-29
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The Chasers
Overview: A love triangle of two men who desire the same woman. We follow them through three days of grouse hunting, a chase that ends violently. Or does it?
Genres: Drama Romance Thriller
Original Language: no
Release Date: 1959-08-24
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Vi som går kjøkkenveien
Overview: Well off Helga takers on a bet that she can be a house maid for a year, to get a diamond ring, which leads to a job that implicates quite a lot, and even challenges her father's motorcycle production business.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: no
Release Date: 1933-02-20
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The Wild Duck
Overview: The play opens in the study at Hakon Werle's house during a dinner party for the return of Werle's son, Gregers, from the Hoidal mines. Gregers has not come home for fifteen years. Old Ekdal appears before two servants, begging to be let into the office. Ekdal was an army officer and partner to Werle until a forestry scandal sent him to prison over some scandal. He now works as one of Werle's copyists.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: no
Release Date: 1963-04-09
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Venner
Overview: Mountain climbing and its dangers get a different twist in this standard drama by Norwegian director Tancred Ibsen. When one of two climbing buddies returns from an attempt to scale Eagle Peak, he is happy to claim his award for being the first to reach the summit. But his celebration is short-lived after his friend comes back down from the mountain with another version of his "victory" climb. This second version has the supposedly successful climber cast as an attempted murderer. The story behind the climb comes out in flashbacks as the Alpine Club reviews the accusation.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: no
Release Date: 1960-02-01
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Scorched Earth
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: no
Release Date: 1969-02-24
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Petter from Ruskoey
Overview: Young Petter moves together with his family from a happy life in a rural fisher's village to a rough community and school life in the city of Oslo.
Genres: Family
Original Language: nb
Release Date: 1960-01-01
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Millionær for en aften
Overview: Shipping broker Landheim tries to save a failing theater, but falls in love. Is the broker a journalist, and the actress a prima donna? Who knows?
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: no
Release Date: 1960-08-18
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Ska' vi lege skjul?
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: da
Release Date: 1970-03-23
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The Market of the Unknowns
Overview: The Market of the Unknowns is a burlesque and socially critical tale of a flea market in Oslo, which is organized for the benefit of slum dwellers in Lima. Based a on novel by Åge Rønning.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: no
Release Date: 1968-11-07
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The Ashlad and the Hungry Troll
Overview: An exuberant story about Askeladden, the hero of Norwegian traditional fairy tales, outwitting the good-natured troll.
Genres: Animation Family Fantasy
Original Language: no
Release Date: 1967-12-30
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Alle tiders kupp
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Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: no
Release Date: 1964-02-01
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Ungen
Overview: Milja, living in Kristiania in the late 1800s, becomes pregnant, but the father of the child, Julius, is not around after the child has been born and Milja decides to adopt it. Milja struggles to live with her decision.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: no
Release Date: 1960-09-22
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The Wayward Girl
Overview: Gerd, considered a woman of dubious morals, falls in love with a boy whose family does not accept their relationship, so both run away and settle in a cabin in the woods where they meet a sullen man who tests their love.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: no
Release Date: 1959-10-08
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Møte med "Pæra"
Overview: Schoolmates 20 years later.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: no
Release Date: 1964-05-02
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Onkel Vanja
Overview: A retired professor has returned to his estate to live with his beautiful young wife, Elena.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: no
Release Date: 1963-09-26
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