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Elskere (1963)
Character: Skredderen
Ludvina is considered a woman of loose morals in her small home town. When she becomes pregnant, she decides to raise the child without the help of a man.
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Den nye lægen (1943)
Character: Ordfører
When a popular doctor, leading the job to get a hospital to town, celebrates his 60th birthday there's a big party. But a new doctor discovers malpractice. But when the doctor is ill with a bad appendix, the tables are turned.
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Skøytekongen (1953)
Character: N/A
The throne of ice skating sees a change of regent when Hans takes over as “The King”, and the sports press can’t seem to get enough of him.
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Svendsen går videre (1949)
Character: N/A
A man who is trying to shop for some tobacco meets difficulties in the bureaucracy, when it comes to taxes and tolls, and he seems to meet himself in the doorway.
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Så møtes vi i morgen (1946)
Character: Rasmussen
Young student Steffen Berg finds it difficult to adapt to society's laws and rules. After dropping out of medical school, he starts working in a shop to support his family, together with his brother Jørgen and sister Gerda, and to keep his mother out of a nursing home. One of Steffen's friends is going to America with his wife and needs money. Steffen takes 500 kroner from the store's cash register. The next day, there is an audit and Steffen's theft is discovered.
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Familien på Borgan (1939)
Character: N/A
No one knows that the rich landowner of Borgan is the father of Anne whose parents work on the farm. The landowner's brother has bad times in the city and his son wants to be a farmer. he is secretly engaged to be married to Anne.
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Sangen til livet (1943)
Character: Brahm, advokat
Businessman Braa has many enemies and is put in prison after a scam. While in prison his wife dies of a serious illness, while Roll takes over the business. But he is not popular with the workers. When Braa gets out, it's time for revenge.
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Kommer du, Elsa? (1944)
Character: Overlegen
A young violinist dies during a concert being sick with tuberculosis, and his concert conducting father takes the blame and starts to drink. He is cured, but they find he has an illness ruining his conducting. This leads to a tragedy.
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Trollfossen (1948)
Character: Enevold, styremedlem
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.
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Jørund Smed (1948)
Character: Doktor
The Swedish blacksmith Jörund, who left Sweden innocently suspected of murder, arrives at a Norwegian farm and falls in love with the farmer Marja.
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Freske fraspark (1963)
Character: Bessfar
Per has won the 50 kilometer in Holmenkollen, but which village is he from, Alvdal or Tynset?
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Bustenskjold (1958)
Character: Plassbakk-kallen
Jens von Bustenskjold is a farmer despite his more promising family past when his family was of a fine descent. But he is lazy, and he wants to improve by marrying rich. Then he inherits a large sum of money.
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Bra mennesker (1937)
Character: Marius Vik
David has just been released from the prison. He meets the prostitute Maggi and follows her home. They decide to start a new life together and move to the countryside.
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Det æ'kke te å tru (1942)
Character: Direktør Storm
After being fired as barbers, Bernt and Nils get jobs working for an employee at a large department store. They become embroiled in the rivalry between two bosses, Ålberg and Hagen, who are both competing for a prize of 5,000 kroner for the best act at the company's autumn fair. Ålberg has no scruples and resorts to both cheating and kidnapping.
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Det æ'kke te å tru (1942)
Character: Storm, direktør
After being fired as barbers, Bernt and Nils get jobs working for an employee at a large department store. They become embroiled in the rivalry between two bosses, Ålberg and Hagen, who are both competing for a prize of 5,000 kroner for the best act at the company's autumn fair. Ålberg has no scruples and resorts to both cheating and kidnapping.
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Portrettet (1954)
Character: Bjerkås
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.
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Oss atomforskere i mellom (1961)
Character: N/A
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.
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Bjørnepatruljen (1956)
Character: N/A
High summer, and eight scouts are on a hike when they discover a hidden motorbike. The bike is hidden by two post office robbers. They leave the find, but the robbers take one a hostage.
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Trysil-Knut (1942)
Character: Crown, prokurator
Trysil-Knut is a Norwegian film from 1942. Directed by veteran Rasmus Breistein and is a ski themed melodrama about the legendary skier Trysil-Knut from Trysil. He is a powerful patriot, who in the early 1800s prevent that a war breaks out between Norway and Sweden using his skiing skills. While that goes on Knut is also preparing a court case of fraud to determine the ownership of his fathers old farm.
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Sangen om Rondane (1934)
Character: grossereren
A wealthy wholesaler-family Oslo lives every summer on his beautiful property up in the high mountains. One day in a mountain lake, Greta has a seizure and is close to drowning. A love affair develops with her savior and even a pregnancy.
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Bussen (1961)
Character: N/A
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.
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Bedre enn sitt rykte (1955)
Character: Vik, rektor
A man falls in love with his young French language teacher. It becomes a complicated love story when his class mate Karin also begins to fancy her.
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Det kunne vært deg (1952)
Character: Flyttemannen
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.
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To levende og en død (1937)
Character: Kvisthus
Based on the 1931 novel To levende og en død by Sigurd Christiansen. A post office worker is left wrestling with his conscience following a robbery at his workplace.
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Dei svarte hestane (1951)
Character: Salmakar Ås
Ambros Fornes owns two large farms and stunning four horses. These horses comes to fill his life because his young beautiful wife, Lisle, does not manage to love him as he loves her.
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Gullfjellet (1941)
Character: Halvor
The city boy Rolf gets a job on a big farm, and soon lies about finding gold. We see the rise of gold fever while the corn rots away.
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Tørres Snørtevold (1940)
Character: Dommeren
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...
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Nødlanding (1952)
Character: Edvartsen, kirketjener
An American bomber is shot down on the Norwegian coast during World War II. The airmen bail out and land at different locations. In spite of the German search for them, the Norwegian resistance picks them up and hides them in the attic of the local church, a center of operations. Things become tense, however, when the hideout is spotted by a notorious collaborator, and soon the protagonist, Hans, has to get the airmen to Sweden.
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Den hemmelighetsfulle leiligheten (1948)
Character: Ekspedisjonssjefen
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.
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Eli Sjursdotter (1938)
Character: Soland Hovstrøen
During the great Nordic war in 1719, the Swedes have occupied parts of Norway. During the retreat over Tydal mountains most freezes to death. However, some seek refuge in mountain huts. The farmers chase them. The Swede hater Sjur come on tracks of Per Jons, seeking refuge in a mountain hut where Sjur's daughter Eli is located. She takes care of the wounded Per and there is a love affair between them. A relationship which does not fall in well with her father.
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Hjem går vi ikke (1955)
Character: Olsen
A six year old boy runs away from home with the family's big dog, a St. Berhard, who the grown ups wants to put down.
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Skadeskutt (1951)
Character: Asyldirektøren
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.
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Madame besøker Oslo (1927)
Character: Wagelsteen, bankier
About two swindlers who try to steal the property of a wealthy banker who has just died.
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To mistenkelige personer (1950)
Character: Løsgjenger
Two police officers lie dead. The swede Ekstrøm and the youngster Gustav flees the scene of the crime. Based on a real double murder in 1926, this movie remained almost unseen for 57 years. When the film was set to premiere in 1950 one of the murderers, having served a full sentence, went to court to have the film stopped.
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Op med hodet! (1933)
Character: En publikumer
The stuttering Theobald stumbles upon some ballet girls who are in town with a touring theater company and falls in love with Lill. This leads to an interest in becoming an actor, and a theater manager sees him as an unintentional comic relief on stage.
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Kampen om tungtvannet (1948)
Character: En maskinist
A factual reconstruction of the sabotage events which took place to prevent Hitler's Germany from getting the heavy water needed to make an atomic bomb during the Second World War.
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Cirkus Fandango (1954)
Character: N/A
Fandango is the director of a traveling circus. He brings with him a handful of artists who have to stick together to succeed, but there is a clear conflict between the director and the artists.
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En herre med bart (1942)
Character: Tønnesen, doktor
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.
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Bastard (1940)
Character: N/A
Siberian hunter Burtaj learns from his dying father that he originates from German farmers on his mother side. He is thus a "bastard", since the hunters and peasants have been enemies since ancient times.
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Du har lovet mig en kone! (1935)
Character: P.T. Bluhm
Eilert is afraid of women. His friend Lagesen is not, quite the opposite. To help his shy friend, he takes him to a mountain hotel during Easter. There they meet Ingrid, a beautiful girl with whom they both fall in love.
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Tante Pose (1940)
Character: Sorenskriver Nicolai Bals
The story of the sour old virgin who celebrates Christmas with the judge Bals. She makes life miserable for both the family and the other guests. There are many complications, which does not resolve until Christmas Eve is over.
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Storfolk og småfolk (1951)
Character: Anders Evensstad
The wealthy farmer sits safely on his ancestral farm, and the hard-working tenant farmer lives on the hill below. The horse dealer at the coach station will trick the innocent farmer, who is not so innocent after all, with cunning tricks. The mischievous boy who bullies the servants when his mother and father are away, the kind-hearted little boy who helps his grandfather when no one else will listen to the old man, the village eccentric who never tires of recounting his youthful adventures in the city, the worn-out wife who will not send her cow to the show at any price.
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Gategutter (1949)
Character: N/A
The movie takes place on Oslo's east side sometime during the twenties. It depicts the workers' environment by traditional elements like unemployment, strike, poverty, alcoholism, absent fathers, wise and tired mothers, the dream of a better life and the friendship between the boys in the street.
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