René Bjerke
Directing
Biography
With Bent Rognlien he founded the Kinoteket in Oslo (1980) a few years after they started the street companies in Uranienborg terrace. For TV3 he directed the program René's Cinema 3 around 1987-88. Prior to that, he played in the radio programs Nattkino and Notabene at P2, as well as a film writer for Aftenposten. He is also one of many Hotel Cæsar-directors.
Known For
Hotel Cæsar is a Norwegian soap opera that has been broadcast Monday to Friday on TV 2 since 1998. It was created by Swedish duo Peter Emanuel Falck and Christian Wikander. The show consists of more than 2,500 episodes, making it the longest running drama in television in Scandinavia.
Hotel Cæsar
16 year old LP (Håkon Bolstad) has just graduated from junior high school. He lives in Oslo and he's the only-child to a middle-class couple. Wanting to get away from his parents he steals a sailboat, vaguely envisioning to look up some girl he once knew a bit down the Oslofjord. Not knowing how to sail he almost collides into a pier when the stunningly beautiful Line (Benedikte Lindbeck) rescues him. She jumps on board and joins LP on his journey. LP is sullen and introvert, however, the confident and well versed girl thaws him as they continue on their sunny escapade of the Oslofjord archipelago. Then LP's father (played by seasoned Norwegian leading actor Nils Ole Oftebro) appears and demands the end to the adventure. A battle of wills ensues between the equally stubborn father and his offspring. Neither has really learned to know the other, and Line becomes the catalyst which makes both realize new aspects about the other.
Daddy blue
Knut Erik Jensen's personal visual poem, an Elegy for a culture that no longer exists. Stella Polaris is a personal document in fiction form of a bygone era and culture in the northernmost part of Norway. At the same time described the current Finnmark in the scene from our own time. The story is narrated by a woman's eyes, both as children in the busy fishing village and as an adult in the present. She returns to the birthplace and remember how life was before the fishing village was closed. Love story between her and her childhood friend is central to the action. 'Stella Polaris' is in the form of associative told with an unconventional dramaturgy.
Stella Polaris
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Filmregissøren Arne Skouen - et portrett
The film's director and old boys player Trygve Hagen takes us on football training late autumn evening with other old boys who love football. This will be a starting point for reflecting on the enthusiasm for two slightly different things such as football games and filmmaking.
Ingen skal få ta fra meg fotballen
A man, a woman, see each other, flirt, have sex, stay together, be together, have trouble, slip apart again.
Hvilken vei skal du?
Based upon the novel of Tarjei Vesaas about a boy and two girls who gets involves in a dramatic love story after finding a newborn and abandon baby out in the woods.
Bruene
A young boy is waiting for the bus. For a long time the bus arrives, but it is almost completely full. Just one seat is available, one seat in the middle of four beautiful girls ...
Det rare
A portrait of Norwegian poet and novelist Tarjei Vesaas (1897 - 1970).
Over open avgrunn
Two brothers live on a remote yard in Telemark. That's where the pretty girl Hild comes to work in the shed. A quiet fight between the brothers begins. Who dares to take the decisive step? Who will get her heart?
21 Years
Palassteateret (The Palace Theater) was a cinema in Oslo that had one last performance before it got demolished.
The Palace Theater
A portrait of the painter Hedda Gjerpen.
Hedda
This is a thematic innovative documentary film in which the director, Trygve Hagen, reflects on his role as both father and son. The framework for this is a journey Hagen makes with his seven-year-old son - from Oslo to Molde - to visit his old father
Far og sønn
A lecture with poet Halldis Moren Vesaas.