Oddvar Bull Tuhus
Directing
Biography
Oddvar Bull Tuhus (født 14. desember 1940 i Oslo) er en norsk regissør og filmskaper som har vært med på å lage spillefilmer og tv-serier siden hans spillefilmdebut Rødblått paradis i 1971. I sin første film bar stilen hans preg av å være inspirert av fransk ny bølgefilm og de modernistiske filmene på 1960- og 1970-tallet. Med hans neste film, Maria Marusjka fra 1973 heller Tuhus mer mot den realistiske filmen og vant også Filmkritikerprisen for sitt arbeid. På 80-tallet gikk Tuhus igjen nye veier og laget tre ungdomsfilmer og en spenningsfilm, hans siste filmer var mer i retning populærfilmen og spesielt hans siste film, Blücher fra 1988 bar preg av de store blockbuster- og actionfilmene fra 80-tallet. Han er også grunnlegger og styreformann i de private produksjonsselskapene Vampyrfilm (grunnlagt 1970) og Marcusfilm (grunnlagt 1974).
Known For

One day fourteen-year-old Sophie Amundsen comes home from school to find in her mailbox two notes, with one question on each: "Who are you? and "Where does the world come from?
Sophie's World
The reason for the film is the continuous stream of reminders that we get more and more often about cruelty practiced in all parts of the world. The film reveals a society completely confused in its deepest value choices.
Filmavis

A Jewish family leaves Germany after surviving the Holocaust and heads to Norway. Mendel, their youngest son, is too young to make sense of the Holocaust but tries to comprehend his family's actions during the war and their nightmares now. His imagination frequently runs away from him.
Mendel

Blücher is a 1988 Norwegian thriller film directed by Oddvar Bull Tuhus, starring Helge Jordal, Frank Krog and Hege Schøyen. Two North Sea divers who have recently been fired plan to vindicate themselves by a pioneer expedition to the wreckage of the German cruiser Blücher, at the bottom of the Oslofjord. The expedition soon becomes entangled in political intrigues.
Blücher

Per is a newly qualified social worker entering professional life. Through Per, we are confronted with welfare Norway in 1970. Over the course of a couple of short summer months, we get to know Per. He is a fairly ordinary, intelligent person. He has his problems in relation to himself and the opposite sex. He is in the process of becoming an adult. He is testing his attitudes and perceptions. He must find answers to questions that could be crucial to his future place in society.
Rødblått paradis

Hockeyfeber tells not only the story of collisions on the ice , but also about life as it really fortoner in the tough environment amateur sport unfolding in . The film depicts the sporting community for better or worse , and shows how tough and cynical demands of athletes being when the sponsors' affection, the most important.
Hockeyfeber

Young Maria lives her upper class life in the shadow of her husband Carl, and gets pregnant. She doubts her value as a wife, and is drawn to a couple of other less respectable men., which leads to a crisis.
Exit
Tom Åsland studies biochemistry and is working on his thesis together with Samira, a girl from Iraq. Both she and her brother Ohmar are friends of Tom's; they grew up in Norway and are well integrated into society. Nevertheless, their parents take it for granted that their children should conform to the same traditions they themselves grew up with. Samira understands this, but when her friendship with Tom develops into something more, both she and Tom experience the difficulties that second-generation immigrants can encounter. Both Samira and her brother are faced with difficult choices that have major personal consequences for them.
Bryllupet

A group of young people have finally fulfilled their dreams from school days – they have got jobs and "freedom." But freedom brings with it new and heavier responsibilities. They decide to realize one last dream and breathe new life into their old school band – moving to the countryside and making a living from gigs. And it's a success! But there's a flip side to the coin: the long-awaited freedom isn't theirs – they're being controlled from outside.
Fifty/Fifty

The keeper of the light house, Ewert, lives at the coast with his wife and daughter, constantly thinking about the lost love of his past, Maria Marusjka. Worried about his daughter, about to be a woman, he makes the wrong decisions.
Maria Marusjka

A movie loosely based on a strike in the community of Sauda, Norway 2. June 1970. The strike lasted for five weeks, and was on the news almost every day.
Streik!

We follow the rootless Sinsen gang in good times and bad. A life that consists of rock concerts, hut trips, amusement park visits and car thefts. The year is 1958, when the Americans launched the Explorer and the Russians Sputnik III. However, these events do not interest the youthful persons in this film, the members of the "Sinsen gang". For them, it is far more important to know which rock hits are on top on Top Twenty on Radio Luxembourg, and to have seen the latest film with Elvis. The most important is to be accepted by the gang, to be loyal to your pals, and for a very few to be prepared for school
1958
About the distance between the political leadership and the common people. Here illustrated in connection with the referendum on the EEC.
Folkevilje 1 og 2

The Øyens' leave their 5 year old daughter to the babysitter, who later that night receives some mystical phone calls.
Angst

Jan's fastfood-business is going bankrupt, his girlfriend has left him, and he is being exploited by his live-in father. Therefore, he has nothing to lose when he gets mixed up in the kidnapping of famous rock star Iver Mo. But Jan has never been able to do anything right his whole life, and there are others who want to get their hands on the ransom money.
You Really Got Me

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Oslofilm: Filmavis 1969
A documentary about the statesman Einar Gerhardsen and his relation to the labour movement, how the Labour Party under his rule became the overall leading party.
Tillitsmannen
Confrontation between father and son. Over the course of a night of drinking, they communicate on topics such as politics, love, and freedom.