Aksel Hennie
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Biography: Aksel Hennie (born 29 October 1975) is a Norwegian actor, director and writer. He has acted in a number of successful Norwegian movies, and has received several awards. Hennie grew up in Lambertseter in Oslo. In his late teens he was sentenced for graffiti, and became an outcast in the community for confessing to the police. This personal story contributed much of the background for the movie Uno. The conviction against Hennie was in fact one of the first such cases in Norway. Hennie was admitted to the Norwegian National Academy of Theatre after applying four times. He graduated in 2001, and has since acted both at Teatret Vårt in Molde (2001–2002) and at Oslo Nye Teater (2002–), where he has been in plays such as Hamlet, and Kvinnen som giftet seg med en kalkun (English: The woman who married a turkey). His main success, however, has been as a film actor. He made his debut starring in the feature film Jonny Vang in 2003. Though the director, Jens Lien, originally thought Hennie was too young for the role, the actor convinced him he was the right man for the film. The same year he also acted in the movies Buddy and Ulvesommer, and the next year he made his debut as a director and writer with the movie Uno, in which he also acted. For this film Hennie, and his co-star Nicolai Cleve Broch, went into hard physical training for six months to perform convincingly as bodybuilders. He won the Amanda Award – the main Norwegian film award – for "Best Direction" for the movie Uno in 2005, and that same year he was also among the nominees for "Best Actor" and "Best Film". He also won an Amanda award as "Best Actor" for the movie Jonny Vang in 2003. He was named one of European films "Shooting Stars" by European Film Promotion in 2004. In 2001 he was also named "Theatre talent of the year" by the newspaper Dagbladet. In 2008 Hennie starred in the movie Max Manus, where he played the role of the Norwegian war hero by that name. The movie had a large budget by Norwegian standards, and was met with great expectations. His next upcoming international film is Age of Heroes, a world war 2 movie primarily shot in Norway starring Sean Bean and Danny Dyer. Description above from the Wikipedia article Aksel Hennie, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Oslo, Norway
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Birthday: October 29, 1975
Age: 49 years old
Gender: Male
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Tina & Bettina 2 - The Comeback
Overview: 10 long years have passed since the first film about the super duo, and things are not so great anymore. Tina married an 89-year-old, who just refuses to die so that she can finally get the inheritance. Bettina, on the other hand, tries to keep her spirits up in a rotten marriage where all she does is look after the ungrateful man's children. And almost even worse - no one does video blogging anymore, and after a heated argument, the girls have lost contact with each other. Life sucks. But when Tina goes crazy at the VIXEN awards, and the recording from there goes viral, Tina & Bettina are suddenly on everyone's lips again.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: no
Release Date: 2023-02-24
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Sisu
Overview: When an ex-soldier who discovers gold in the Lapland wilderness tries to take the loot into the city, German soldiers led by a brutal SS officer battle him.
Genres: Action War
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2022-09-09
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A Somewhat Gentle Man
Overview: After serving a 12-year sentence for killing the man that slept with his wife, a man ponders whether he should try and reconcile with his family, or take revenge on those who turned him in.
Genres: Comedy Crime Drama
Original Language: no
Release Date: 2010-03-19
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Cold Lunch
Overview: Bird droppings on a work shirt lead to extreme unintended consequences.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: no
Release Date: 2008-02-01
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Jonny Vang
Overview: Three friends since childhood are trying to work out their complicated relationships. Jonny tries to be best friends with Magnus, Magnus tries to be married to Tuva, and Tuva tries to have sex with Jonny.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: no
Release Date: 2003-02-14
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Spenn
Overview: A father is struggling to keep a good life with his son. His last business project was a flop. He is about to loose everything when two men with a gun turns up and makes him a proposal.
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Original Language: en
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Through a Glass, Darkly
Overview: A moving, magic and playful story about a young girl who, at the end of her life, learns to accept death and understands how wonderful life really is. The script is based on the novel by Jostein Gaarder.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: no
Release Date: 2008-10-17
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Max Manus: Man of War
Overview: Max Manus is a Norwegian 2008 biographic war film based on the real events of the life of resistance fighter Max Manus (1914–96), after his contribution in the Winter War against the Soviet Union. The story follows Manus through the outbreak of World War II in Norway until peacetime in 1945.
Genres: History War Action Crime
Original Language: no
Release Date: 2008-12-18
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Buddy
Overview: Kristoffer lives in Oslo with his friends Geir and Stig Inge. He works as a billboard installer, and in his spare time he makes a video diary with Geir and Stig, containing stunts of a Jackass-nature. When Kristoffer's girlfriend, Elisabeth, leaves him, his life seems to fall to pieces. Until his videos are featured on Norway's most popular talk show and Kristoffer becomes famous.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: no
Release Date: 2003-08-29
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Kurt Turns Evil
Overview: One day Kurt discovers that society does not respect forklift operators very much. He quits his job, and starts climbing the social ladder. He wants to be somebody, but when he doesn't have success in any of his projects, Kurt turns – evil.
Genres: Animation Comedy Drama
Original Language: no
Release Date: 2009-03-25
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Uno
Overview: Best friends David and Morten work as gym instructors at Jarle's gym. Jarle is a sadistic small-time criminal whom, together with his son Lars, purchase and distribute anabolic steroids.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: no
Release Date: 2004-09-10
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Headhunters
Overview: An accomplished headhunter risks everything to obtain a valuable painting owned by a former mercenary.
Genres: Thriller Crime Action
Original Language: no
Release Date: 2011-08-26
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Cockroaches
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Genres: Animation
Original Language: no
Release Date: 2022-06-06
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Age of Heroes
Overview: The true story of the formation of Ian Fleming's 30 Commando unit, a precursor for the elite forces in the U.K.
Genres: Drama Action Thriller War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-05-19
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90 Minutes
Overview: Director Eva Sørhaug (Cold Lunch) reveals the rage and violence lurking beneath seemingly tranquil domesticity in her bold and uncompromising sophomore feature.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: no
Release Date: 2012-09-21
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Wolf Summer
Overview: The young Norwegian girl Kim almost gets killed after falling from a hillside. She finds shelter and stumbles upon the territory of a wolf and her puppy. When she finds out three shepherds are out to kill the wolf, she decides to get across the border to Sweden, where they don't hunt for wolves.
Genres: Adventure Drama Family
Original Language: no
Release Date: 2003-02-28
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Hercules
Overview: When a new enemy threatens the innocent, Hercules must lead his fearless team of warriors in a battle against overwhelming odds.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-07-23
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Pioneer
Overview: Pioneer is set in the early '80s, at the beginning of the Norwegian Oil Boom. Enormous oil and gas deposits are discovered in the North Sea and the authorities aim to bring the oil ashore through a pipeline from depths of 500 meters. A professional diver, Petter, obsessed with reaching the bottom of the Norwegian Sea has the discipline, strength and courage to take on the world's most dangerous mission. But a sudden, tragic accident changes everything. Petter is sent on a perilous journey where he loses sight of who's pulling the strings. Gradually he realizes that he is in way over his head and that his life is at stake.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: no
Release Date: 2013-08-30
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Fort forover
Overview: The year after upper secondary high school the best friends Even works in a kinder garden, while Andreas is running from party after party.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: no
Release Date: 2000-11-03
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Three Robbers and a Lion
Overview: The three thieves Kasper, Jesper and Jonathan lives together with their always hungry lion in the little town of Kardemomme town, the home to a fair but kind police officer, and the strict Aunt Sofie.
Genres: Animation Family
Original Language: no
Release Date: 2022-12-25
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The Martian
Overview: During a manned mission to Mars, Astronaut Mark Watney is presumed dead after a fierce storm and left behind by his crew. But Watney has survived and finds himself stranded and alone on the hostile planet. With only meager supplies, he must draw upon his ingenuity, wit and spirit to subsist and find a way to signal to Earth that he is alive.
Genres: Drama Adventure Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-09-30
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Last Knights
Overview: When an evil emperor executes their leader, his band of knights – bound by duty and honour – embarks on a journey of vengeance that will not come to an end until they've destroyed their mortal foe.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-04-03
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Guggen: The Big Cheese
Overview: Guggen is not like the other rat-children. He hates the sewers and loves the fresh air on the roof, where he has emigrated. His mom is worried. What will become of this fresh-air-loving, guitar playing son of hers? She forces her husband, Roger Rotten to take Guggen on a father-and-son trip down the sewers to hunt for cheese. On their adventure they must conquer sewercats, gigantic spiders and alligators. At the end of the day, Roger must admit that he has learned as much of his son as Guggen of him.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: no
Release Date: 2002-10-22
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Anolit
Overview: A circling roadmovie told from the back seat of a styled BMW.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: no
Release Date: 2002-12-10
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Tell Me Not to Worry
Overview: Smith is searching for his guiding star. For centuries his expeditions have been in vain. But then one night, just as he's about to give up, the star emerges - on the night sky above his bed. But the festivities are cut short, when Smith discovers the star is just a reflection in his window. Reason tells Smith that the star doesn't really exist, but in his heart, Smith knows he's found what he was looking for.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: xx
Release Date: 2004-03-22
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Spermageddon
Overview: Two narrative threads - one is an emerging love story between two awkward teens, Jens and Lisa, who are having sex for the first time and the other is an eventful quest of Simon the Semen and his friends to reach the golden goal, the Egg.
Genres: Animation Comedy
Original Language: no
Release Date: 2025-02-21
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The Cloverfield Paradox
Overview: Orbiting above a planet on the brink of war, scientists test a device to solve an energy crisis and end up face-to-face with a dark alternate reality.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-02-04
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Congo
Overview: In the spring of 2009 two Norwegian adventurers, Joshua French and Tjostolv Moland, are accused of killing their hired chauffeur just before crossing into the eastern Congo. The following manhunt starts a political and diplomatic headache.
Genres: Drama Crime History
Original Language: no
Release Date: 2018-10-26
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Twigson the Explorer
Overview: Lillebror moves with Twigson and his family to the western part of Norway, but he dreams of even bigger expeditions, like going to the North Pole.
Genres: Adventure Family
Original Language: no
Release Date: 2017-11-17
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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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Cry in the Woods
Overview: An unfortunate bank robber takes an escaped mental patient, wanted for murder, as hostage.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: no
Release Date: 2004-04-02
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Bloody Angels
Overview: A few months after a girl with developmental disabilities is murdered in the remote village Høtten, the two young men who most townsfolk think killed her go missing. A police detective is sent to investigate and finds this very challenging.
Genres: Thriller Crime Mystery
Original Language: no
Release Date: 1998-12-26
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The Middle Man
Overview: Frank Farrelli takes on the job as a middle man in the God-forsaken town of Karmack, USA, a community in a depression so deep that they need a middle man to professionally communicate more of the bad news.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-09-17
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The Long Way Home: Making 'The Martian'
Overview: A long form documentary on the making of Ridley Scott's film, "The Martian," featuring interviews with its cast and crew.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-06-07
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The Doorman
Overview: A former Marine turned doorman at a luxury New York City high-rise must outsmart and battle a group of art thieves and their ruthless leader — while struggling to protect her sister's family. As the thieves become increasingly desperate and violent, the doorman calls upon her deadly fighting skills to end the showdown.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-10-01
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The Trip
Overview: A dysfunctional couple head to a remote lakeside cabin under the guise of reconnecting, but each has secret designs to kill the other. Before they can carry out their respective plans, unexpected visitors arrive and the couple is faced with a greater danger than anything they could have plotted.
Genres: Comedy Horror
Original Language: no
Release Date: 2021-07-30
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Friday Night Fever
Overview: The film marked the debut of cartoonist and illustrator Christopher Nielsen as an animator. This is a crude cartoon with period humour depicting Oslo's East youth hanging around the Narvesen kiosks - hence the name 'Narver'.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: no
Release Date: 1996-01-01
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