A caretaker at a music academy is solving most problems for the young musicians, however not only the most appropriate way. But down inside he really...

A young Norwegian boy in 1850s England goes to work as a cabin boy and discovers some of his shipmates are actually pirates.

This black-and-white Norwegian film is a great rarity: a film with comic elements set in a mental ward which does not overstep the bounds of common...

Knut Hamsun is Norway's most famous and admired author. Ever since he was young he has hated the English for the starvation they caused Norway during...

A lonely teacher muddles through a midlife crisis as he navigates romantic relationships and tries his hand at composing experimental music.

As children in the loving Ekdahl family, Fanny and Alexander enjoy a happy life with their parents, who run a theater company. After their father...

Lina is in her best age, mid-30s. She is strong-willed, resilient and self-conscious. There has never been a man in her life, on the contrary, she...

A young boy lives alone in a small room in a block of flats, with a phone ringing constantly, without anyone at the other end. He runs away, soon to...

After a seven-year absence, Charlotte Andergast travels to Sweden to reunite with her daughter Eva. The pair have a troubled relationship: Charlotte...

Based on a play by Dario Fo

Ballad of the Masterthief Ole Hoiland (Norwegian: Balladen om mestertyven Ole Høiland) is a 1970 Norwegian drama film directed by Knut Andersen, and...

The Swedish 19th century engineer Salomon August Andrée sets out to become the first man on the north pole. His idea is to launch a polar expedition...

About the Swedish author Agnes Von Krusenstjerna during the period of her marriage to David Sprengel. In the hallucinatory opening sequence she is...

Film about a woman's struggle in a male-dominated society in the late 1800s. Amalie Skram was one of our first female writers who fought woman...

Robert Lund (Roy Bjornstad) is a weary man, and his days as a starring saxophone player seem to be near their end. The Nazis have occupied Norway for...

A stolen bicycle case ends with drunken detective/lawyer Alexander 'Lex' Larsen having to clear Vigdis Wang of a murder charge. Unofficially based...

A love story about an actor, Arne Strømberg, which struggles with the changes between love and anger, and his roles as a macho man, family father...