Turid Balke
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Kirkenes, Finnmark, Norway
Birthday: July 25, 1921
Deathday: January 05, 2000
Adult: No
Gender: Female
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Silver Mouth
Overview: Fredrik, nicknamed "Silver mouth" for his braces, lives with his father in Oslo. While the two share a loving relationship, Fredrik has trouble adjusting to the idea of his father becoming involved with a new woman. After visiting his mother, who lives in another city, he attempts to sabotage his father's relationship.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: no
Release Date: 1981-12-01
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Kjære Maren
Overview: Set in Rodeløkka of Kristiania eastside around the year 1900 and is a rough sketch of how it was to be young and unmarried working girl at the time.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: no
Release Date: 1976-02-19
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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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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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Kamilla and the Thief
Overview: Kamilla and the Thief (Kamilla og Tyven) is a Norwegian family movie from 1988 directed by Grete Salomonsen and produced by her husband Odd Hynnekleiv. The movie is an adaption from a Norwegian children's novel by Kari Vinje, and is the first feature film of renowned Norwegian actor Dennis Storhøi and also stars '80s pop idol Morten Harket in a minor role. Kamilla and the Thief was a huge success in Norway, selling half a million tickets (in a country of 4.5 million people). It was so popular that a sequel was made, Kamilla and the Thief II, which was released the year after. In 2005 both movies were digitally restored and released on DVD.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: no
Release Date: 1988-03-23
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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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Sønner av Norge kjøper bil
Overview: In suburbia Solbråten has some residents received bildilla. The otherwise wayward husbands forget their obligations for both work and home. There is also a great contest in having more cars in their recovery than neighboring upswing.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: no
Release Date: 1962-01-01
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Stompa, selvfølgelig!
Overview: Langåsen boarding school has its 50th year anniversary, and the students are to make a celebration show in the auditorium. Trouble is brewing when a school inspector is to visit the school at the same time.
Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: no
Release Date: 1963-09-26
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Et øye på hver finger
Overview: A surveillance radar is to be placed at the Norwegian coastline. Three soldiers volunteer to guard it, but only so that they can have a party afterwards.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: no
Release Date: 1961-12-26
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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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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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Freske fraspark
Overview: Per has won the 50 kilometer in Holmenkollen, but which village is he from, Alvdal or Tynset?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: no
Release Date: 1963-08-18
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Clocks in the Moonlight
Overview: Four men are gathered to play a game of bridge, when the conversation turns to unnatural and occult events.
Genres: Thriller Horror Mystery
Original Language: no
Release Date: 1964-09-21
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The bridal bouquet
Overview: Siv Blom is a young impulsive girl with a special ability to come up in extraordinary situations. She also sleepwalks and one day strolling she sleepwalks unsuspecting into the bedroom to the sublime painter 'Picasso'. The art painter comes to admire her naivete, but doesn't have enough time for her. After that Siv stumbles across a new man, a junior manager in the firm Høyland & Høyland. Høyland jr. falls for Miss Blom, but definitely not his mother. Therefore Siv is sent on business to Stockholm and thus she meets man no. 3, the womanizer Victor Wahlin. Who to marry now that Siv has acquired three very eager suitors whom all wants Siv's consent. The stage is set for many intrigues. Who wins?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: no
Release Date: 1953-12-26
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Death Is a Caress
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: no
Release Date: 1949-08-29
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Tips om trivsel
Overview: A door-to-door salesman tries to sell the "Super Madsen" multi-function housekeeping appliance to a series of housewives at a block of flats. The eleventh in a series of Norwegian commercial compilations addressed to "the modern housewife".
Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: no
Release Date: 1963-01-01
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The 13th Warrior
Overview: A Muslim ambassador exiled from his homeland joins a group of Vikings, initially offended by their behavior but growing to respect them. As they travel together, they learn of a legendary evil closing in and must unite to confront this formidable force.
Genres: Adventure History Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-08-13
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Out of Order!
Overview: A labor party leader is having an affair with the opposing party's secretary. Unfortunately for them, there seems to be a corpse in their hotel room just as they managed to sneak in unnoticed.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: no
Release Date: 1992-11-10
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Something Completely Different
Overview: On a dark night, under a full moon, a childless couple find a crying baby on their doorstep and decide to adopt him. As the years pass, they come to discover that their young son is not like other children.
Genres: Comedy Horror
Original Language: no
Release Date: 1985-12-19
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Pastor Jarman Comes Home
Overview: The good priest gets a mystery to solve on his way home by ship to Oslo. A crew member dies, with a final wish to help Makken, and deliver a gold watch to Lily. But Lily denies knowing the man, and is scared when she hears the name Makken.
Genres: Mystery Drama
Original Language: no
Release Date: 1958-01-01
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The Last Lieutenant
Overview: Norwegian war drama. The old sea-captain retires, but the next day German WWII occupation of Norway begins. He then kisses his wife good-bye and is off to Army HQ. There he finds a lack of leadership and morale that offends him. They even laugh at him and his out-dated uniform and officer-rank. Secondloitnanten then finds and leads his private troop of volunteers against the German attack. The movie tells the story of a man that refuses to give up, even when everybody else leaves. He will fight for the country he loves and do his duty.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: no
Release Date: 1993-08-27
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Utbor-opprøret
Overview: 12 year old Torgeir is dyslectic, and his best friend Asta is hearing disabled. Together they make up a fantasy world, when and his grandmother has told about kids set out in the woods back in old times.
Genres: Family Drama
Original Language: no
Release Date: 1996-09-13
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Deep Shit
Overview: A humorous animated short film about a fat rat, a cat and an elephant.
Genres: Animation Comedy
Original Language: no
Release Date: 1999-05-04
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The Olsen Gang For Full Music
Overview: Egon Olsen is commissioned to help a baron with an insurance fraud. As the dividend can finance Basse's wedding, even Valborg accepts the plans.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: no
Release Date: 1976-12-26
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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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Sausage
Overview: A husband and wife living under impoverished conditions far into the forest. One day they get the chance to improve their lives with 3 wishes. Based on a Norwegian folk tales.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: no
Release Date: 2000-11-11
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Kamilla and the Thief 2
Overview: Kamilla and the Thief - Part 2 continues where the first Kamilla movie ends. Sebastian going to jail, but Kamilla did not fail his friend, even if she refused to have contact with him and is bullied because she is "a friend of a thief." Kamilla is the only one who believes in Sebastian when he says that he will not steal. Can Sebastian to keep that promise? Kamilla is faithful - but is it enough?
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: no
Release Date: 1989-02-15
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