Grete Nordrå

Grete Nordrå

Born: November 22, 1924
Died: March 13, 2012

Movies for Grete Nordrå...

Title: Berlinerpoplene
Character: Anna Neshov
Released: October 8, 2007
Type: TV
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Mother's Elling
Title: Mother's Elling
Character: Mor
Released: October 10, 2003
Type: Movie
Elling has lived with his mother all his life. Mom is the practical one, while Elling ponders the more theoretical aspects of life. He spends his time in their apartment reading books and looking at the neighbours through the living room window. Elling doesn't seem to need to be around others like most people. That's why Elling is less than enthusiastic when his mother suddenly decides to take her son on a beach vacation to Spain. Reluctantly, Elling agrees. After all, a lady at her age needs a good man by her side. But what Elling refuses to realize is that Mom is not only old, but also sick. Very sick. On her last vacation she tries to get Elling to see that life is bigger than their living room.
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The Greatest Thing
Title: The Greatest Thing
Character: Hege
Released: August 31, 2001
Type: Movie
Film based on the Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson novel "Fiskerjænten"
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Odd Little Man
Title: Odd Little Man
Released: September 1, 2000
Type: Movie
Little Oddemann uses every means available to find Jesus, including his slingshot. The film takes us to Norway in the late '30s, where we meet a series of burlesque and humorous characters, whose antics convince Oddemann that growing up may be a bad idea. Yet Oddemann finds there are certain rewards to being grown-up, such as partying and chasing women, that merit closer examination.
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Eva's Eye
Title: Eva's Eye
Character: Dame med hund
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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Gone with the Fish
Title: Gone with the Fish
Character: Line
Released: September 3, 1999
Type: Movie
Based on director Lotte Svendsen's own memories of her childhood on the Baltic island of Bornholm, but though it is set in 1981 the conflicts portrayed do not seem far away. At the start of the film Lars Erik and his wife Sonja are doing well on the Baltic island of Bornholm. Lars Erik is a successful fisherman, Sonja is a traditional housewife, proud of their new house bulging with consumer goods. Their love for each other is the sturdy footing on which their home is founded. Lars Erik employs three men on his trawler, and spends as fast as he earns, so when fishing quotas are cut he faces a crisis. One by one his men leave the boat, but he refuses to give up. Being a fisherman is like being a farmer - you depend on the wealth of mother nature herself. However, mother nature is like romance, highly capricious!
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Naustet
Title: Naustet
Released: August 22, 1997
Type: Movie
Knut'n (Bjorn Willenberg Andersen) comes home to the village on vacation with his wife Ingrid (Anne Krigsvoll) and daughters. He meets Atle (Jorgen Langhelle) "who have never achieved anything and still lives with his mother." Old conflicts and new jealousy comes up to the surface.
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For dagene er onde
Title: For dagene er onde
Released: February 21, 1991
Type: Movie
"For the Days Are Evil" - Based on Anne Karin Elstad's novel with the same name. The Norwegian-American Robert returns to his place of origins after many years overseas. He gets an intimate close relationship with the 36 year old woman Hildegunn, who is married to Tore. Hildegunn is the central figure in the movie. Her warm relationship to Robert soon create reactions with the people in the tiny fjordvillage, but Hildegunn is too blinded by emotions to see the destructive tension that is growing. "For Dagene Er Onde"/"For the Days Are Evil" is a gripping and intense story about how evil can grow from envy and collective misunderstanding, and destroy marriage, friendship and love.
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The Witches
Title: The Witches
Character: Norwegian Witch
Released: May 25, 1990
Type: Movie
A young boy named Luke and his grandmother go on vacation only to discover their hotel is hosting an international witch convention, where the Grand High Witch is unveiling her master plan to turn all children into mice. Will Luke fall victim to the witches' plot before he can stop them?
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On the Threshold
Title: On the Threshold
Character: Fru Lund
Released: December 30, 1984
Type: Movie
Set in Oslo during the 1950s. 12 year old Lars looks for diversions to take his mind off the deteriorating relationship between his parents. He spends his time getting up to mischief with his friend Peter. He travels into the countryside with his uncle on a motorcycle and he befriends Lill, a young prostitute. He also has to face the death of a loved one.
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Wives
Title: Wives
Character: Uteligger
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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Rødblått paradis
Title: Rødblått paradis
Released: November 13, 1971
Type: Movie
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Douglas
Title: Douglas
Character: Fru Ahrman
Released: September 3, 1970
Type: Movie
Douglas is a stuck-up policeman who works in the intelligence services, who believes that his status makes it okay to make other people's lives miserable.
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Nine Lives
Title: Nine Lives
Character: Stenografen
Released: October 3, 1957
Type: Movie
The movie takes place during World War II and depicts the true story of Jan Baalsruds amazing escape from the German army from the coast of Northern Norway and across the border to the neutral country Sweden.
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Trost i taklampa
Title: Trost i taklampa
Character: Gunvor Smikkstugun
Released: January 17, 1955
Type: Movie
The story takes place in a hedmark built during some summer weeks.