Acting
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.
Well off Helga takers on a bet that she can be a house maid for a year, to get a diamond ring, which leads to a job that implicates quite a lot, and even challenges her father's motorcycle production business.
Young Petter moves together with his family from a happy life in a rural fisher's village to a rough community and school life in the city of Oslo.
A little girl named Toya comes to Norway as a refugee and gets adopted by a family in Stavanger. A misunderstanding makes Toya suspected of stealing from her new family. Toya runs away from home.
Salve is a shepherd, and meets the young boy Kjell, when on his way to a show with a sheep he thinks will win the big prize.
Ivo Caprinos animated adaption of the classical Norwegian folktale
A woman who has sacrificed everything for her family meets a man who makes her reassess her life
We meet the young violinist Øyvind Dahl at a time when everything has weighed him down and he is completely desperate for alcohol. He has left his wife and children and has teamed up with emaciated artists and suspicious individuals, and obtains his daily liquor by mortgaging his last possessions, even the wedding ring, and by pitifully barring money.
Mountain climbing and its dangers get a different twist in this standard drama by Norwegian director Tancred Ibsen. When one of two climbing buddies returns from an attempt to scale Eagle Peak, he is happy to claim his award for being the first to reach the summit. But his celebration is short-lived after his friend comes back down from the mountain with another version of his "victory" climb. This second version has the supposedly successful climber cast as an attempted murderer. The story behind the climb comes out in flashbacks as the Alpine Club reviews the accusation.
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.
The young factory girl Milja comes in disaster on board fishing with Julius, who fails her for the beautiful and unreliable Petrina. The people from the bourgeoisie despise factory girls and their bastard, they are vile and promiscuous. In his despair will Milja give away the kid for it to get a better life than she can provide it. But Onsea-Lovisa ready to change her opinion.
An exuberant story about Askeladden, the hero of Norwegian traditional fairy tales, outwitting the good-natured troll.
Orphaned girl Toya is attending winter vacation with her uncle and aunt. Her friend Trygve is staying at the same mountain hotel. But on a trip in the mountain, a storm surprises them, and a search party is sent out.
The film was commissioned by the Workers' Information Association to motivate rural voters to vote.
April 9, 1940, an aircraft warns Norwegian merchant ships that German naval forces are heading for Norwegian waters. The pilot signals to a Norwegian-flagged ship that responds to shooting at the aircraft. The pilot is hurt but is able to land on the water. He is picked up by a Norwegian boat on his way to Kristiansand. Before he dies, he tells Captain Knut Viker and the governor Harald Bakken if this happened.
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Not until four years after The Fox's Widow was the third fairytale movie, The Seventh Master of the House, released – Caprino's personal favourite. This is a wonderful fairytale and a sharp satire on everyday bureaucracy. Caprino knew all about that – in fact, you might say that the movie was an indirect stab at the bureaucrats who had considered all his funding applications.
Askeladden (Norwegian "The Ash Lad") is the main character in many Norwegian folktales.
Hans Nielsen Hauge was a Norwegian reformer in the early 1800's both financially and spiritually.
The Swedish blacksmith Jörund, who left Sweden innocently suspected of murder, arrives at a Norwegian farm and falls in love with the farmer Marja.
