Grete Nordrå
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Not available
Adult: No
Birthday: November 22, 1924
Age: 100 years old
Gender: Female
Deathday: March 13, 2012
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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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Mother's Elling
Overview: Elling has lived with his mother all his life. Mom is the practical one, while Elling ponders the more theoretical aspects of life. He spends his time in their apartment reading books and looking at the neighbours through the living room window. Elling doesn't seem to need to be around others like most people. That's why Elling is less than enthusiastic when his mother suddenly decides to take her son on a beach vacation to Spain. Reluctantly, Elling agrees. After all, a lady at her age needs a good man by her side. But what Elling refuses to realize is that Mom is not only old, but also sick. Very sick. On her last vacation she tries to get Elling to see that life is bigger than their living room.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: no
Release Date: 2003-10-10
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On the Threshold
Overview: Set in Oslo during the 1950s. 12 year old Lars looks for diversions to take his mind off the deteriorating relationship between his parents. He spends his time getting up to mischief with his friend Peter. He travels into the countryside with his uncle on a motorcycle and he befriends Lill, a young prostitute. He also has to face the death of a loved one.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: no
Release Date: 1984-12-30
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Rødblått paradis
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: no
Release Date: 1971-11-13
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The Greatest Thing
Overview: Film based on the Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson novel "Fiskerjænten"
Genres: Drama History Romance
Original Language: no
Release Date: 2001-08-31
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Eva's Eye
Overview: While Eva Magnus and her daughter, Jenny, are taking a walk, they discover a dead body floating along the riverside. Eva runs to the nearest phone booth and pretends to call the police. Then she leaves the body for someone else to find. Why? Konrad Sejer, the police officer investigating the case, links it to another unsolved murder of a woman killed in her bed. A woman that used to be a childhood friend of Eva Magnus.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller Mystery
Original Language: no
Release Date: 1999-10-29
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Gone with the Fish
Overview: Based on director Lotte Svendsen's own memories of her childhood on the Baltic island of Bornholm, but though it is set in 1981 the conflicts portrayed do not seem far away. At the start of the film Lars Erik and his wife Sonja are doing well on the Baltic island of Bornholm. Lars Erik is a successful fisherman, Sonja is a traditional housewife, proud of their new house bulging with consumer goods. Their love for each other is the sturdy footing on which their home is founded. Lars Erik employs three men on his trawler, and spends as fast as he earns, so when fishing quotas are cut he faces a crisis. One by one his men leave the boat, but he refuses to give up. Being a fisherman is like being a farmer - you depend on the wealth of mother nature herself. However, mother nature is like romance, highly capricious!
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: da
Release Date: 1999-09-03
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Douglas
Overview: Douglas is a stuck-up policeman who works in the intelligence services, who believes that his status makes it okay to make other people's lives miserable.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: no
Release Date: 1970-09-03
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Trost i taklampa
Overview: The story takes place in a hedmark built during some summer weeks.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-01-17
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Naustet
Overview: Knut'n (Bjorn Willenberg Andersen) comes home to the village on vacation with his wife Ingrid (Anne Krigsvoll) and daughters. He meets Atle (Jorgen Langhelle) "who have never achieved anything and still lives with his mother." Old conflicts and new jealousy comes up to the surface.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: no
Release Date: 1997-08-22
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For dagene er onde
Overview: "For the Days Are Evil" - Based on Anne Karin Elstad's novel with the same name. The Norwegian-American Robert returns to his place of origins after many years overseas. He gets an intimate close relationship with the 36 year old woman Hildegunn, who is married to Tore. Hildegunn is the central figure in the movie. Her warm relationship to Robert soon create reactions with the people in the tiny fjordvillage, but Hildegunn is too blinded by emotions to see the destructive tension that is growing. "For Dagene Er Onde"/"For the Days Are Evil" is a gripping and intense story about how evil can grow from envy and collective misunderstanding, and destroy marriage, friendship and love.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: no
Release Date: 1991-02-21
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Wives
Overview: Following a drunken school reunion, Mie, Kaja and Heidrun, three school friends now in their 30s, realize how they're dominated by their husbands’ needs and demands. Aching for a taste of freedom, the trio go off on a spree.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: no
Release Date: 1975-09-03
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The Witches
Overview: A young boy named Luke and his grandmother go on vacation only to discover their hotel is hosting an international witch convention, where the Grand High Witch is unveiling her master plan to turn all children into mice. Will Luke fall victim to the witches' plot before he can stop them?
Genres: Fantasy Family Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-05-25
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Odd Little Man
Overview: Little Oddemann uses every means available to find Jesus, including his slingshot. The film takes us to Norway in the late '30s, where we meet a series of burlesque and humorous characters, whose antics convince Oddemann that growing up may be a bad idea. Yet Oddemann finds there are certain rewards to being grown-up, such as partying and chasing women, that merit closer examination.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: no
Release Date: 2000-09-01
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Game of Chance
Overview: A game of chance begins when a tenement dweller is found dead in his kitchen after putting on a new frying pan he had won at bingo. The frying pan was placed among the prizes, and a mysterious bald person instructed the bingo leader to give it to the person who later became the victim.
Genres: Mystery Crime
Original Language: no
Release Date: 1977-12-02
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