Wenche Foss
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Not available
Adult: No
Birthday: December 05, 1917
Age: 107 years old
Gender: Female
Deathday: March 28, 2011
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Don't Look Back
Overview: The body of a local teenage girl named Annie was found by an idyllic pond in the woods. The suspect list grows indefinitely. However, as Inspector Sejer and his partner Jacob Skarre question the girl's family, and others, they realize she has a shocking secret she shared with no one.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: no
Release Date: 2000-01-10
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Rygg i rand, to i spann
Overview: Two very different crimes, a post office robbery and a murder, happens at the same time. Two detectives at the Bergen police station get each their case. But could there be a connection?
Genres: Mystery Crime Drama
Original Language: no
Release Date: 1993-01-09
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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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Gurin with the Foxtail
Overview: A gnome named Gurin wakes up with a foxtail as punishment for his practical jokes.
Genres: Animation Family Adventure
Original Language: no
Release Date: 1998-08-07
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Tørres Snørtevold
Overview: The young fisherman Tørres wants to become rich, so he can get revenge over Krøger, who has taken his family home. He gets a job in Mrs. Knudsen's shop to establish himself, and after a short time he has the upper hand on Krøger...
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: no
Release Date: 1940-12-26
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Act Naturally
Overview: A television-team makes a surprise visit to an olympic athlete's grandmother. They want to capture her reaction just as her grandson crosses the finish line. Unfortunately, the woman is totally uninterested in sports, and doesn't even have a TV. The interview is a bust, but the team discovers something else that may be the scoop they have been looking for.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: no
Release Date: 1993-01-01
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Bør Børson Jr.
Overview: Bør Børson Jr. will become a great man quickly, but will be ridiculed when lower class in Olderdalen crashes with modern Norway.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: no
Release Date: 1974-02-05
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Music for Weddings and Funerals
Overview: Sara, recently divorced and mourning the loss of her only child, rents her basement to Bogdan, a Serbian musician who brings the whole band along. As she learns more about her ex's infidelity, she wonders if Bogdan's lifestyle may be preferable to the manipulative starkness of her ex that ultimately lead to his murder.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: no
Release Date: 2002-08-22
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Farewell Illusions
Overview: A harrowing and ironic story about the first big and well educated generation born after WW2, living without any major concerns between 1965 and 1975.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: no
Release Date: 1985-03-12
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Jeg drepte!
Overview: A friend of the surgeon Bøhmer has to have his appendix removed, but during the anesthesia he reveals he loves the doctor's wife, which makes Bøhmer want to kill him. Three days later the patient dies. Did Bøhmer kill him?
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: no
Release Date: 1942-08-17
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Portrettet
Overview: The film takes place in the idyllic town of Solsund. Per Haug, a temporary worker, bachelor, amateur painter and leader of the political opposition in the city council, lives there. One day he rushes home from a turbulent city council meeting and angrily paints a portrait of Mayor Abrahamsen.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: no
Release Date: 1954-12-26
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Trollfossen
Overview: General director Strøm will create a large Norwegian industrial company to tame waterfalls and put them in pipes. But also his wife Sylvia, the gifted pianist, must be tamed. However, Strøm discovers that human material is considerably more difficult to process than the forces of nature.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: no
Release Date: 1948-03-29
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Lykke og krone
Overview: Depicts the royal houses of Europe (Norwegian, British, Belgian and Dutch) as well as Iran and the Principality of Monaco.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: no
Release Date: 1962-04-23
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Rosmersholm
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Genres: Drama TV Movie Action Crime Mystery
Original Language: nb
Release Date: 2001-04-13
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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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Song of Norway
Overview: Like the play from which it derived, the film tells of the early struggles of composer Edvard Grieg and his attempts to develop an authentic Norwegian national music. It stars Toralv Maurstad as Grieg and features an international cast including Florence Henderson, Christina Schollin, Robert Morley, Harry Secombe, Oskar Homolka, Edward G. Robinson and Frank Porretta (as Rikard Nordraak). Filmed in Super Panavision 70 by Davis Boulton and presented in single-camera Cinerama in some countries, it was an attempt to capitalise on the success of The Sound of Music.
Genres: Music Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-11-04
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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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En herre med bart
Overview: The title of this film "En herre med bart" translates as "A Gentleman with a mustache." It is the the story of a married couple, a hardworking lawyer and his wife. The wife is fed up with the marriage and wants a divorce, something the husband won't let her have.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: no
Release Date: 1942-11-14
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About Tilla
Overview: One autumn day, Ivar goes to the Botanical Garden in Oslo to visit Maria who is the mother of a little girl named Tilla. Ivar is a child psychologist and had Tilla observed a few months earlier. Treatment for her was agreed upon, but Maria has not returned with Tilla. Now Ivar finds her sleeping under a tree in the garden, and he meets Maria bent over a microscope in the laboratory. Maria has become even more nervous and unbalanced than the last time he met her, because nothing has been "corrected" as quickly as she had hoped -- Tilla has not spoken now for a year and a half. Maria herself is on her way to being as closed off as her own little girl. Ivar persuades Maria to come to the pediatric psychiatric clinic with Tilla so they can begin her treatment. There she meets Mimi Backer. But neither does Mimi get Maria to open up about her experiences with Tilla. In the clinic's observation room, however, the first little flicker of light falls on the mystery...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: no
Release Date: 1963-01-02
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Tonny
Overview: Tonny is a school boy in foster care who serves his first sentence in jail. We follow him 24 hours before his parole and 48 hours after his release. We get to see his experiences in prison and his relationship with his mother, friends and girlfriend Kari.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: no
Release Date: 1962-01-22
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Scenes from a Marriage
Overview: Johan and Marianne are married and seem to have it all. Their happiness, however, is a façade for a troubled relationship, which becomes even rockier when Johan admits that he's having an affair. Before long, the spouses separate and move towards finalizing their divorce, but they make attempts at reconciling. Even as they pursue other relationships, Johan and Marianne realize that they have a significant bond, but also many issues that hinder that connection.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1974-09-15
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Blackmail for Beginners
Overview: In desperate need of $150,000 for his father's heart transplant, Simen tries to blackmail a dysfunctional robber.
Genres: Crime Drama Comedy
Original Language: no
Release Date: 2011-09-30
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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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The Beginning of a Story
Overview: A story about one summer from the life of 7 years old Marin.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: no
Release Date: 1988-09-08
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Gjør det lettere
Overview: Wenche Foss hosts a series of commercials and infomercials. The twentieth in a series of Norwegian commercial compilations addressed to "the modern housewife".
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: no
Release Date: 1967-01-01
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Krane's Confectionery
Overview: A woman who has sacrificed everything for her family meets a man who makes her reassess her life
Genres: Drama
Original Language: no
Release Date: 1951-11-07
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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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Ballen i øyet
Overview: While near sighted Denise plays football, she accidently gets a ball in her face, and her glasses break. When she wakes up in the hospital she's double sighted.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: no
Release Date: 2000-10-02
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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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Arne Skouen - en mann for sin tid
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: nb
Release Date: 1998-07-01
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Open Future
Overview: A 16-year-old boy grows up in the '60s, experimenting with life, sex, drugs and alcohol.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: no
Release Date: 1983-12-26
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Victoria L.
Overview: The middle aged widowed Victoria has had to quit job due to work injuries. Helping people is her new goal in life. One days she meets young Carl, suffering from a difficult past, giving her an unforgettable experience.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: nb
Release Date: 1982-03-19
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Rikard Nordraak
Overview: A film biography of Rikard Nordraak, composer of the Norwegian national anthem.
Genres: History
Original Language: no
Release Date: 1945-12-26
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Life and Death
Overview: When a married doctor brings home a gay medical student that he's smitten with, his wife goes along and the three try to build a non-traditional relationship. Then society's homophobia intervenes.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: no
Release Date: 1980-09-26
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Julia Julia
Overview: Julia washes train coupes for a living. When she meets the married Karl-Henrik, the secretary of the Minister of Justice, she falls in love and gets him involved in criminal activities
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: no
Release Date: 1981-08-11
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The Pinchcliffe Grand Prix
Overview: 100 miles north, a bit east and up, is Pinchcliffe, the home of bicycle repairman Reodor Felgen and his two assistants, Solan Gundersen and Ludvig. Sponsored by oil sheik Ben Redic Fy Fazan, they build the car "Il Tempo Gigante" to race against Reodor's former assistant Rudolf Blodstrupmoen, who has stolen one of Reodor's inventions to become a world racing champion.
Genres: Adventure Animation Comedy Family
Original Language: no
Release Date: 1975-08-28
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The Dangerous Game
Overview: Known architect Jean Blomis married with two kids, living in a modern condo, though being very outgoing, his wife isn't. After learning about scientist Holm's new hormone, he hopes to feed his wife with it to get her pepped up.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: no
Release Date: 1942-01-02
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Et spøkelse forelsker seg
Overview: Norwegian Drama
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: no
Release Date: 1946-01-01
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I Am Dina
Overview: In Northern Norway during the 1860s, a little girl named Dina accidentally causes her mother's death. Overcome with grief, her father refuses to raise her, leaving her in the care of the household servants. Dina grows up wild and unmanageable, with her only friend being the stable boy, Tomas. She summons her mother's ghost and develops a strange fascination with death as well as a passion for living.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-03-08
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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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Det kunne vært deg
Overview: Maisen is newly married to the architect Harald, but on the way home he loses the key to their flat. They have to ask their neighbor for help, a man with a new girl every night. But when their marriage falters, the neighbor steps up.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: no
Release Date: 1952-11-13
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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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Episode
Overview: Tensions arise when a mother falls for her son's friend.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: no
Release Date: 1963-10-03
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Aske
Overview: A middle-aged couple, Daniel and Cecilie, lives in a large house. They have a son, but he has left them, and they do not even know if he is alive. While Cecilie is alone in the house, three young people and one older person come in. They are friends with the son. Conflicts arise between Cecilie - and later Daniel - and the invaders.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: no
Release Date: 1973-03-26
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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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