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A man walks amongst an inferno of flames, shell-shocked. When he's back home, he starts group therapy in a military rehab center, meeting all kinds of fellow soldiers who, like him, have lost some of their beliefs or peace of mind in the battlefield.
Eva is an elderly woman facing loneliness and confinement. Her only companion is a lizard who also lives confined in a fishbowl. Today, Eva decides to force her granddaughter to take her on a ride in the car.
Denmark, by the end of the 19th century. Gov. Dihmer gives his resignation because of his illness. Two friends, a pastor and a physician, try to awaken his willpower and transcend a journey to Italy. Meanwhile, in the homeland, there are political breakthroughs that make little hope for new times.
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.
The film takes place in 1973 during the Yom Kippur War in which Egypt and Syria launched attacks in Sinai and the Golan Heights. The story is told from the perspective of Israeli soldiers. We are led by Weinraub and his friend Ruso on a day that begins with quiet city streets, but ends with death, destruction and devastation of both body and mind. Various scenes are awash in the surreal, as Weinraub's head hangs out over a rescue helicopter's open door, watching with tranquil desperation as the earth passes beneath, the overpowering whir of the blades creating a hypnotic state. It is not a traditional blood, guts and glory film. There are no men in battle, only the rescue crew trying to pick up the broken pieces.
A film about faces, about expressions, about situations. The film is based on a poem by the Danish poet Poul Borum. The recordings are made in the Munch Museum in Oslo and based on the faces of Munch's pictures.
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.
The story of the young student Nils Klim and his journey to the strange planet Nazar and meeting the people who live there.
Czech immigrant Vesna arrives in Italy and is forced into casual prostitution by poverty. The encounter with a kind construction worker could help change her situation.
The vignette Tryllekassen (1985) by Inside Karine Melbye was in use for so many years that it is probably Norway's most watched animated film.
Standard Norwegian TV-drama from the 1980's
A concert in honor of Eberhard Weber's 75th birthday. Weber performs in this concert with big names like Pat Metheny, Jan Garbarek, and others.
In a modern version of Ibsen's stage play, we meet TV-celebrity Tomas Stockman returning to his native village to produce the world's purest bottled water. The plant will bring new life and hope to the village, but unexpected trouble occurs.
The young Oslo lawyer Helen sees a man fall from a balcony, and realizes afterwards it's her father. Suicide or murder?
A comprehensive history of European Jazz, exploring the origins of the US-influenced Jazz clubs after the Second World War, the first steps independent of American jazz and the various changes of direction that have repeatedly occurred in European jazz in the search for that "own voice" that European jazz musicians have helped to form. Featuring the great masters of European jazz such as Chris Barber, Jan Garbarek, Juliette Gréco, Stefano Bollani and Till Brönner, to name but a few.
The emotional story of an adulterous relationship between a journalist and a teacher.
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Contrecoeur is a film using fantastic realism to talk about psychology, drift and love. Three characters must define themselves in an enclosed space, a truck trapped in a snowstorm, and dream of somewhere else to find each other.
An Apache and a Northerner on a voyage of discovery towards the year 2000. Erik Bye and his Apache friend Bob Haozous embark on a reverse voyage of discovery in the Columbus year. The series begins in Apache country by the Rio Grande and takes us to South and North America, Siberia, and Norway.
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.
