Sverre Anker Ousdal

Sverre Anker Ousdal

Born: July 18, 1944
in Flekkefjord, Norway
Sverre Anker Ousdal (born 18 July 1944) is a Norwegian actor born in Flekkefjord. His debut was in 1965 at Den Nationale Scene in Bergen. He was at the Oslo Nye Teater in the period 1967 to 1970, and at the National Theatre from 1970.

Movies for Sverre Anker Ousdal...

One or Two Lies
Title: One or Two Lies
Released: January 1, 2021
Type: Movie
A father calls his son after years of silence, in an attempt to reconcile, before it is too late.
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Syndebukken: Prosessen mot Harry Lindstrøm
Title: Syndebukken: Prosessen mot Harry Lindstrøm
Character: Himself
Released: October 10, 2018
Type: Movie
Mads Ousdal discovers as an adult that his babysitter at one time was Norway's most hated man after a national crisis in the 1960s.
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Autumn Fall
Title: Autumn Fall
Released: October 16, 2015
Type: Movie
Oslo in beautiful autumn. Ingvild is a stage manager at the National Theatre, and trying to make a life change, with her artistic ambitions. Not liking actors, she still manages to get into two very different affairs.
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The Veil of Twilight
Title: The Veil of Twilight
Character: Gardar
Released: October 10, 2014
Type: Movie
The investigation of a mysterious serial-killer in a mountain village, set in Norway in the mid 1300s.
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Wide Blue Yonder
Title: Wide Blue Yonder
Character: Arne
Released: May 25, 2012
Type: Movie
An anti-authority rogue in an old folks' home breaks all the rules and causes mayhem honoring his friend's dying wish to be buried at sea.
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The Secret Life of Words
Title: The Secret Life of Words
Character: Dimitri
Released: December 15, 2005
Type: Movie
A touching story of a deaf girl who is sent to an oil rig to take care of a man who has been blinded in a terrible accident. The girl has a special ability to communicate with the men on board and especially with her patient as they share intimate moments together that will change their lives forever.
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Deadline Torp
Title: Deadline Torp
Character: Jørgen Schold
Released: January 13, 2005
Type: Movie
On September 28th, 1994, two Swedish men robbed a bank in the small Norwegian town of Larvik. Soon, with a massive police hunt underway, the robbers ended up taking two civilians and two police officers hostage. Next morning the drama would come to a deadly halt at nearby Torp Airport, where for the first time in history, a Norwegian police chief was forced to give the order to shoot to kill.
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The Crossing
Title: The Crossing
Character: Uncle Carl
Released: October 22, 2004
Type: Movie
Andreas has everything a man can wish for. A wonderful wife, a big house on the country and a great job. But a sudden car accident puts him in a wheelchair. He is paralysed in his legs and he is also now impotent. Will his marriage work?
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Asfaltevangeliet
Title: Asfaltevangeliet
Released: April 17, 2004
Type: Movie
The controversial story about "Jesus", placed in Oslo today. Jesus drinks, curses and attends to prostitutes, to fit in to modern life.
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Kitchen Stories
Title: Kitchen Stories
Character: Dr. Jack Zac. Benjaminsen
Released: January 2, 2004
Type: Movie
Swedish efficiency researchers come to Norway for a study of Norwegian men, to optimize their use of their kitchen. Folke Nilsson (Tomas Norström) is assigned to study the habits of Isak Bjørvik (Joachim Calmeyer). By the rules of the research institute, Folke has to sit on an umpire's chair in Isak's kitchen and observe him from there, but never talk to him. Isak stops using his kitchen and observes Folke through a hole in the ceiling instead. However, the two lonely men slowly overcome the initial post-war Norwegian-Swede distrust and become friends.
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Everyone Loves Alice
Title: Everyone Loves Alice
Character: Henry
Released: October 4, 2002
Type: Movie
A love triangle between a man, two women and three children. When love suddenly explodes in these people's everyday lives, it creates a pressure wave that changes the lives of everyone.
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Most People Live in China
Title: Most People Live in China
Character: Martin (segment "Passasjerene")
Released: June 7, 2002
Type: Movie
A movie inspired by eight Norwegian political parties, written by six writers and directed by nine directors: a man gets a nasty surprise skinny dipping, a cow eats a cell phone, a lesbian couple loses a child, a blind girl sells dubious lottery tickets, a boy falls in love, a man picks up a hitchhiker, three girls get help from a man in pajamas, and nine old men find a young girl stuck in a swamp.
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De 7 dødssyndene
Title: De 7 dødssyndene
Released: August 11, 2000
Type: Movie
Feature film length collection of seven short films about the biblical seven sins by preliminary younger Norwegian directors.
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Fomlesen i kattepine
Title: Fomlesen i kattepine
Character: Rex Dobberman
Released: December 26, 1999
Type: Movie
Mr. Fumblebody is a clumsy, but kindhearted unemployed lawyer who picks a fight with the powerfull and reckless Rex Dobbermann. Mr. Dobbermann has decided to eliminate all the cat's in the small town Kattesand. Mr. Dobberman's beautiful daughter Tess on the other hand tries to save her own dear cat from her father, and Mr. Fumblebody does everything he can to help her.
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Eva's Eye
Title: Eva's Eye
Character: Larsgaard
Released: October 29, 1999
Type: Movie
While Eva Magnus and her daughter, Jenny, are taking a walk, they discover a dead body floating along the riverside. Eva runs to the nearest phone booth and pretends to call the police. Then she leaves the body for someone else to find. Why? Konrad Sejer, the police officer investigating the case, links it to another unsolved murder of a woman killed in her bed. A woman that used to be a childhood friend of Eva Magnus.
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Cellophane
Title: Cellophane
Character: Vegard Birkeland
Released: August 28, 1998
Type: Movie
Marianne visits her dying father in the hospital who tells of a box of old letters that she must promise to destroy. Marianne chooses to do the opposite, and reads them instead. There she finds shocking accusations against her father, who allegedly murdered a young woman 25 years ago.
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Credo
Title: Credo
Character: Dr. Lack
Released: September 12, 1997
Type: Movie
Mona is a young woman, engaged to a man who never shows up. She relies strongly on her supportive friend, Anne. Mona suspects that Anne's psychologist, Dr. Lark, is acting funny towards her friend, and decides to investigate. Mona and Anne will find themselves embroiled in a strange world of psychiatry and fanaticism, in which both young women's lives will be endangered.
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Insomnia
Title: Insomnia
Character: Eric Vik
Released: March 14, 1997
Type: Movie
Detectives Jonas and Erik are called to the midnight sun country of northern Norway to investigate a recent homicide, but their plan to arrest the killer goes awry, and Jonas mistakenly shoots Erik. The suspect escapes, and a frightened Jonas pins Erik's death on the fugitive. Jonas continues to pursue the killer as he seeks to protect himself; however, his mounting guilt and the omnipresent sun plague him with an insomnia that affects his sanity.
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Such Is Life
Title: Such Is Life
Character: Harald Knoop
Released: October 25, 1996
Type: Movie
Tin-Tin is a bar pianist, living with the radio talk show host Paul in a relationship gone stale. Still, her parents are expecting grandchildren. Then a self-assured Norwegian business man turns up giving her the eye.
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Hamsun
Title: Hamsun
Released: April 19, 1996
Type: Movie
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 WWI. When the Germans occupy Norway 9 April 1940 he welcomes them and the protection they can give from Great Britain. He supports the national socialist ideals, but opposes the way these ideals are turned into action - that Norwegians are jailed and executed. His wife Marie travels in Germany during the war as a sign of support from Knut and herself.
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North Star
Title: North Star
Character: Lindberg
Released: January 3, 1996
Type: Movie
Set during the Alaskan gold rush of the late 1800s. In his efforts to gain control of a small mining town, Sean McLennon is buying up every claim that becomes available, usually after the deaths of the previous owners at the hands of McLennon's 'assistants'. One of the miners targeted by McLennon, a half-Indian hunter named Hudson Saanteek, manages to escape his hired thugs and comes back into town looking to re-establish his claim and get revenge. McLennon and his men have the advantage of numbers and weapons, but Saanteek has his survival skills and knowledge of the Alaskan wilderness.
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Kristin Lavransdatter
Title: Kristin Lavransdatter
Character: Lavrans
Released: August 25, 1995
Type: Movie
Kristin Lavransdatter is a 1995 Norwegian film directed by Liv Ullman, featuring Elisabeth Matheson, Bjørn Skagestad, Jørgen Langhelle, Lena Endre and Sverre Anker Ousdal, based on Kristin Lavransdatter by Sigrid Undset. It was the Norwegian entry to the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1996.
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Bikinisesongen
Title: Bikinisesongen
Character: Sindre
Released: September 23, 1994
Type: Movie
Leo is one of those not succeeding with anything, but has a life full of unrealistic dreams. His friend Snorre is down to earth. at least until they decide to sell bikinis out of season to shopping eager women.
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The Last Dance
Title: The Last Dance
Released: December 25, 1993
Type: Movie
Blackpool, a dancing contest, a dead woman. This is the opening scene of this movie, which then continues by telling us the story preceding this sad accident - or is it a murder? We will get to know the tensed relationship of the dancing contestant couple Tove and Claes, and see how there lives are affected by Liselott and Lennart, their opponents and friends.
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Colossus
Title: Colossus
Character: Bjørn
Released: September 24, 1993
Type: Movie
A boy paralyzed as a child grows into an athletic man. The colossal strength that allowed him to become a fit man will prove to be his undoing. Convicted of a murder in a fight, he loses the chance to return to his beloved girl.
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Svampe
Title: Svampe
Character: Skyggen
Released: December 26, 1990
Type: Movie
During the Summer while his parents are busy with work, a nine year old boy slips into a fantasy world to entertain himself. A world of strange adults, talking birds and magic. On his quest travelling involves steam engines and handcars.
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The Dive
Title: The Dive
Character: Captain
Released: August 31, 1989
Type: Movie
Sundquist and Eidsvold play the two deep sea divers, who agree to do a quick unscheduled dive before taking their Christmas vacation, to help an oil company who's got a oil-valve caught in a trawl. The dive is to take only 5 minutes, and the divers will get a nice bonus. But things go wrong. The diving bell gets tangled in the trawl, and while trying to hoist up the bell, they tear asunder the oxygen tanks. Suddenly the bell is stuck, and the crew is unable to get it up. Caught in a diving bell at the bottom of the sea, rapidly running out of air, both the divers and the crew on the surface are racing against time to find a solution; how to get the two men up ALIVE!
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Istanbul
Title: Istanbul
Character: The councilor
Released: August 7, 1989
Type: Movie
A New York Times correspondent based in Sweden travels to Istanbul with his daughter on a secret mission.
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Virtuoso
Title: Virtuoso
Character: Gerrard Schurmann
Released: February 12, 1989
Type: Movie
In 1962, the young pianist, John Ogdon wins international success in Moscow and embarks on a whirlwind career. Ten years later he suffers the onset of mental illness that threatens to destroy his playing, marriage and sanity.
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Intergirl
Title: Intergirl
Character: Edward's boss
Released: January 21, 1989
Type: Movie
A hospital nurse becomes an "international girl" — a prostitute who caters to foreigners with hard currency.
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Title: Nonni und Manni
Released: December 26, 1988
Type: TV
Nonni and Manni is a children's television series produced as a joint venture between Iceland and West Germany. It debuted on 26 December 1988 on West Germany's ZDF channel and lasted for six episodes with the last one being aired on 1 January 1989. The story was based on the eponymous book written by the popular Icelandic children's author Jón Sveinsson, nicknamed "Nonni", who had written several books inspired by his own experiences of growing up alongside his brother Ármann, nicknamed "Manni". The filming for the series took place in Iceland, West Germany and Norway.
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Surrender
Title: Surrender
Released: September 20, 1988
Type: Movie
The parents brought the boy to the sanatorium. He does not like to be among patients, because he just got sick neck, what brought him here? He decides to build a raft and escape, because he is not among these patients. What came out of this idea? What if suddenly comes the understanding that you're one of them?
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Sweetwater
Title: Sweetwater
Character: Run-Run
Released: September 14, 1988
Type: Movie
Allan and Lisa flee the war-torn city of Sweetwater with their young son for the safety of the municipal dump in this sleepy war drama. They join other displaced survivors who were driven from their homes. After Lisa gives birth to another child and Allan has a fling with the prostitute Mary Diamond, he trades Lisa for a gun. Allan leads a resistance group trying to retake their city who would rather fight and die than live in exile.
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Folk og røvere i Kardemomme by
Title: Folk og røvere i Kardemomme by
Character: Kasper
Released: August 25, 1988
Type: Movie
The three robbers Kasper, Jesper and Jonathan lives together with their always hungry lion in the little town of Kardemomme by, the home to a fair but kind police officer, and the strict Aunt Sofie.
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The egg
Title: The egg
Released: October 4, 1987
Type: Movie
A fantasy about repression and hidden menace.
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Etter Rubicon
Title: Etter Rubicon
Character: Jon Hoff
Released: September 10, 1987
Type: Movie
Two boys who were found sick on a boat in the sea near northern Norway, are hospitalized with mysterious symptoms. The secret service starts investigating the case, confiscates the bodies. When Hoff notices that the whole event shall be kept secret, he begins to investigate on his own.
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Mio in the Land of Faraway
Title: Mio in the Land of Faraway
Character: The Swordmaker
Released: July 1, 1987
Type: Movie
They're two best friends, a million miles from home. On an incredible adventure, beyond the boundaries of space and time. A fantasy about a lonely boy who is transferred from his dull life with his adoptive parents to the land where his real father is the king.
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Over grensen
Title: Over grensen
Character: Mikkel Årnes
Released: February 1, 1987
Type: Movie
"Across the Border" - Jacob and Rachel was killed on their flight from the Nazi occupation to Sweden in 1942. A year later their bodies are discovered, but after the war the case is re-opened, and the guilty ones is game.
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A Film About Love
Title: A Film About Love
Character: Cristian
Released: January 26, 1987
Type: Movie
At a prom ball, Peter and Helen catch each other's eyes over the children's heads. Peter is desperate to meet Helen and follows her to Mallorca, where she plans to spend her holiday with her husband.
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Plastposen
Title: Plastposen
Character: Henrik
Released: December 26, 1986
Type: Movie
He went out to empty the trash, but he should never have done that! Just listen to what happened to our hero Reinert Andersen in the early morning. In his bathrobe he goes quiet out to throw his garbage bag. But the bin is overfilled, and the neighbor shows up when he tries to sneak it into his. A tricky situation. He takes the speed to heave it over the hedge ... At the same time in a neighborhood bank, Henry and his gang make a successful coup, starting with the escape police pursuit. The only thing that gets in their way, are Reinerts garbage bag. It lands right in the front window, and the remains of it in the face of the policeman who is about to catch the robbers on a motorcycle. Double-flap! And Reinert? a bit naive and nice guy really is suddenly as the focal point in a series of events in his wild imagination would have thought was possible.
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False as Water
Title: False as Water
Character: John
Released: November 8, 1985
Type: Movie
John is the owner of a small publishing company. One day John meets the poet Clara and falls in love with her. A movie about jealousy and death.
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Title: The Last Place on Earth
Character: Roald Amundsen
Released: February 18, 1985
Type: TV
The Last Place on Earth is a 1985 Central Television seven part serial, written by Trevor Griffiths based on the book Scott and Amundsen by Roland Huntford. The book is an exploration of the expeditions of Captain Robert F. Scott and his Norwegian rival in polar exploration, Roald Amundsen in their attempts to reach the South Pole. The series ran for seven episodes and starred a wide range of UK and Norwegian character actors as well as featuring some famous names, such as Max von Sydow, Richard Wilson, Sylvester McCoy and Pat Roach. It also featured performances early in their careers by Bill Nighy and Hugh Grant. Subsequently Huntford's book was republished under the same name. The book put forth the point of view that Amundsen's success in reaching the South Pole was abetted by much superior planning, whereas errors by Scott ultimately resulted in the death of him and his companions.
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Orion's Belt
Title: Orion's Belt
Character: Lars
Released: February 8, 1985
Type: Movie
Live to tell the truth. What can one man do against the most lethal army on earth? Local fishermen/smugglers/tourist guides Tom, Lars and Sverre discover the Soviet Union aren't just mining for coal in the arctic archipelago of Svalbard. This is a secret too big for any of them, and soon they find themselves hunted down by Soviet forces and secret agents.
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The Chieftain
Title: The Chieftain
Character: Harald Ås
Released: February 1, 1984
Type: Movie
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 and husband.
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Hockeyfeber
Title: Hockeyfeber
Character: Haukland
Released: October 7, 1983
Type: Movie
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.
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Prima Veras saga om Olav den Hellige
Title: Prima Veras saga om Olav den Hellige
Character: Dale-Gudbrand
Released: September 16, 1983
Type: Movie
The film describes Olav life from his birth to his death at the Battle of Stiklestad in year 1030. All central place names and people 's actual , but otherwise there happens not fully consistent with the history book. An informal version of the saga of St. Olaf .
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Twilight's Last Gleaming....
Title: Twilight's Last Gleaming....
Character: Arve (voice)
Released: August 27, 1983
Type: Movie
Arve Nor is exposed to a boat accident alone on the sea, taking a settlement with his own identity in his last moment on earth.
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The Flight of the Eagle
Title: The Flight of the Eagle
Character: Knut Frænkel
Released: August 26, 1982
Type: Movie
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 using a hydrogen balloon, together with two friends. The balloon, "The Eagle", takes off from Svalbard in 1897, but the three men are not heard of again.
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Martin
Title: Martin
Character: Arne Olsen
Released: February 6, 1981
Type: Movie
A small peaceful town in Norway. But forces other than peace and tolerance are brewing beneath the surface. It all begins with Martin, a teacher, accused of being gay. The rumor spreads and also hits his friends Kjærsti and Sara, who live together. The three are deviants in people's eyes, and threaten the image of reality. In the municipal administration, two corrupt officials use the rumor to hide their own dishonesty.
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Pøbel
Title: Pøbel
Released: September 12, 1978
Type: Movie
The criminal Tom goes in and out of jail and feels he is getting destructive, where he can't distinguish between love and violence, endearment and toughness nor self realization and self destruction.
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Karjolsteinen
Title: Karjolsteinen
Character: Eilif
Released: December 26, 1977
Type: Movie
The ageing communist Olav is starting to question his own faith after an encounter with the former priest Eilif who tells the story of how he lost his faith in God.
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The Silent Majority
Title: The Silent Majority
Released: March 11, 1977
Type: Movie
"The Silent Majority" - Young Øystein lives in a small apartment outside Oslo, where every day is filled with everyday habits, and he is constantly looking for someone to marry. Then he meets Britt, which hates conformity and traditional values.
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Wives
Title: Wives
Character: Mies mann
Released: September 3, 1975
Type: Movie
Three old friends meet at a school reunion, and after trading the current details of their lives, the women come to realize how much they are dominated by their respective husbands’ needs and demands. Aching for a taste of freedom, the three decide to go off on a brief holiday spree together, away from jobs and families. 'Wives' is a delightful, ironic look at how a new generation of women was beginning to rebel against social conventions and gender expectations.
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Min Marion
Title: Min Marion
Character: George
Released: July 22, 1975
Type: Movie
Marion is born limp and with a scarred face. Georg is also limp after a car accident. it takes more than a man to go together.
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Knutsen & Ludvigsen
Title: Knutsen & Ludvigsen
Character: Dyret #3
Released: December 19, 1974
Type: Movie
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The Island at the Top of the World
Title: The Island at the Top of the World
Character: Gunnar
Released: December 16, 1974
Type: Movie
A Victorian gentleman hopes to find his long-lost son, who vanished whilst searching for a mysterious Viking community in a volcanic valley somewhere in uncharted Arctic regions. The gentleman puts together an expedition team to go on the search, but when they reach their destination they must escape from some Viking descendants who will kill to keep their existence a secret.
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Den siste Fleksnes
Title: Den siste Fleksnes
Character: Postman
Released: November 4, 1974
Type: Movie
Den siste Fleksnes (English: The last Fleksnes) is a 1974 Norwegian comedy film directed by Bo Hermansson, starring Rolv Wesenlund and Aud Schønemann. The film is based on the television sitcom Fleksnes Fataliteter.Marve Fleksnes (Wesenlund) lives a comfortable life with his mother (Schønemann), but misses a woman in his life. He is afraid he might become the last Fleksnes. His mother enrols him in a charm school, where he excels. At the same time, a young lady moves into the apartment across the hall.
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Bobby's War
Title: Bobby's War
Character: Giraristen
Released: February 21, 1974
Type: Movie
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 some time, and he has been passing the time by telling his son Bobby (Erik Andersson) some tales of his previous exploits.
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Kanarifuglen
Title: Kanarifuglen
Released: September 13, 1973
Type: Movie
Together with colleagues Jan goes to a seminar on the Canary Islands. Already on the first day we starts an erotic relation to a stewardess, and during a swim with his boss his life changes dramatically.
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Five Days in August
Title: Five Days in August
Character: Mann som snakker rett fra levra
Released: January 25, 1973
Type: Movie
Viveca is 31, divorced, and has a son of 6 years. She and her friend Aud have left the hectic everyday life and moved in with bohemians and artists. We follow these two women for five days, as they come in contact with many different people.
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3
Title: 3
Released: October 21, 1971
Type: Movie
Teacher Jan, who is married to Ingrid office lady, falls in love with the divorced teacher Tone. Ingrid agree that Tone moves in with them, and that the two women has Jan together as theire lover After a crisis is Jan and Ingrid divorced. Jan finds a third woman, while Ingrid and Tone holds together
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The Olsen Gang
Title: The Olsen Gang
Character: Bensinmann
Released: August 11, 1969
Type: Movie
Egon Olsen is the leader of the Olsen Gang. While he was in the slammer, he planned how he would steal the fantastic golden figure Keizeroppzatsen.
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The Greatest Gamble
Title: The Greatest Gamble
Character: Arne Nord
Released: December 26, 1967
Type: Movie
This is a movie about a local resistance group and its leader Gunvald Tomstad, in the southern part of Norway. Gunvald takes on a heavy burden as he pretends to be a devoted Hitlerjugend-leader and soon he becomes a trusted friend of the German occupants.