Kari Simonsen

Kari Simonsen

Born: June 5, 1937
in Oslo, Norway

Movies for Kari Simonsen...

Final Forever
Title: Final Forever
Released: October 1, 2022
Type: Movie
Struggling against the increasing frailties of advanced age, Carmen (Wenche Medbøe) and her wife Nina (Kari Simonsen) refuse to lose their agency and can’t bear the thought of either losing the other. They work to finish a homemade rocket, aspiring to leave together and see what their futures may hold. Norwegian director Tess Quatri has made a beautiful and compelling film that just may have you in tears.
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Just Super
Title: Just Super
Character: Grandma (voice)
Released: September 30, 2022
Type: Movie
11-year-old gaming enthusiast Hedvig finds her life turned upside down when she is forced to replace her father as the town’s superhero much earlier than expected. But Hedvig is no superhero, and the challenges are far greater than her coaching father anticipated.
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Olsenbanden - Siste skrik!
Title: Olsenbanden - Siste skrik!
Character: Renholderen
Released: September 2, 2022
Type: Movie
The Olsen gang of Egon, Benny and Kjell are constantly looking for the big coup to become millionaires. They have laid out the perfect plan to break into the new Munch Museum in Bjørvika and steal "Scream".
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The Crossing
Title: The Crossing
Character: Wilhelmine
Released: February 14, 2020
Type: Movie
One day, just before Christmas in 1942, Gerda's and Otto's parents are arrested for being part of the Norwegian resistance movement during the Second World War, leaving the siblings on their own. Following the arrest, they discover two Jewish children, Sarah and Daniel, hidden in a secret cupboard in their basement at home. It is now up to Gerda and Otto to finish what their parents started: To help Sarah and Daniel flee from the Nazis cross the border to neutral Sweden and reunite them with their parents.
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Captain Sabertooth and the Magical Diamond
Title: Captain Sabertooth and the Magical Diamond
Character: Landsbykone (voice)
Released: February 13, 2020
Type: Movie
Captain Sabertooth and his crew are up against a sunburnt vampire, a manipulating queen, a violent monkey army and two young pirates while on the hunt for the magical diamond.
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Detective Downs
Title: Detective Downs
Character: Farmor
Released: October 25, 2013
Type: Movie
Detective Robert has his own office, a trench coat, a Bogart hat and Downs syndrome. The only thing he is missing is a case. Then a lady comes to his rescue.
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Before, during and after the Pinchcliffe Grand Prix
Title: Before, during and after the Pinchcliffe Grand Prix
Character: Herself (archive footage)
Released: May 25, 2013
Type: Movie
Remo Caprino loosely and grippingly tells the story about the making of the now beloved norwegian movie, the production itself and the cultural impact it has had for almost 40 years.
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Unns Kjærlighet
Title: Unns Kjærlighet
Character: Unn
Released: June 22, 2012
Type: Movie
Unn is 80 years old, lives in a nursery home and is looking for love. Her body bear witness of a long life, but on the inside beats the heart of a twenty year old girl. When a 25 year old boy becomes Unns new nurse, her heart beats faster and faster, and an old love bloom.
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Tårnagentene og den mystiske julegaven
Title: Tårnagentene og den mystiske julegaven
Released: December 15, 2011
Type: Movie
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Title: Who Do You Think You Are?
Released: January 2, 2011
Type: TV
A Norwegian genealogy documentary series in which celebrities trace their ancestry, discovering secrets and surprises from their past.
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Title: Good Night, Darling
Character: Fru Lyngmo
Released: December 6, 2009
Type: TV
A Norwegian drama about a struggling musician who turns to blackmail after witnessing a murder.
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Andre omgang
Title: Andre omgang
Character: Kvinne
Released: January 18, 2007
Type: Movie
Andre omgang is the story of a father and his two sons trying to adjust to life's later summers; the father becomes a member of a singles' club, Sverre joins a swingers club, and Erik finds a new woman to live with. The three of them are passionate supporters of Skeid Football Club.
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The Art of Negative Thinking
Title: The Art of Negative Thinking
Character: Lillemor
Released: November 3, 2006
Type: Movie
The local disability support group visits an involuntary member, not realizing that it will bring them to a critical mass.
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Wesensteen
Title: Wesensteen
Released: January 1, 2006
Type: Movie
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Vacuum
Title: Vacuum
Character: Widow
Released: October 15, 2004
Type: Movie
A vacuum-cleaner salesman rings on the door of a lonely woman on a rainy night. There dust blows off painful memories.
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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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Hold My Heart
Title: Hold My Heart
Character: Gerd Lunde
Released: March 22, 2002
Type: Movie
Tyven, Tyven ("Hold My Heart") follows the tense relationship between a father and his young daughter. The father, Harald, has divorced Cecilie, his wife, after an ugly breakup which involved accusations of spousal abuse and child molesting. Furious, Harald kidnaps his 7-year-old daughter, Lisa, who he has been forbidden any contact with. Over the course of a few days, the father and daughter grow closer. The police, meanwhile, have organized a manhunt for Harald, and only one policewoman believes he is not a dangerous man.
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Cabin Fever
Title: Cabin Fever
Character: Astrid
Released: November 24, 2000
Type: Movie
The entire extended family is happily on its way to a nostalgic Christmas at a rented cabin in the mountains. The cabin becomes cramped, however, when mom and dad and four grown-up children with their respective families, a dog and in-laws from Poland squeeze inside the frozen cabin walls in 30-below-zero weather.
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Aberdeen
Title: Aberdeen
Character: Waitress
Released: September 8, 2000
Type: Movie
Kaisa is a Scot, a successful London lawyer, who snorts coke and has one-night stands with strangers. Her mother calls from Aberdeen with some story begging her to fly to Norway and collect her alcoholic dad whom she hasn't seen in years.
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Sophie's World
Title: Sophie's World
Character: Gammel kvinne (uncredited)
Released: August 6, 1999
Type: Movie
Sofie is an ordinary Norwegian girl. One day she recieves a video tape on which a certain Alberto Knox talks directly to her from ancient Greece. They then start to meet at different occasions and throughout the film, Alberto takes Sofie on an odyssey of the history of philosophy, from ancient Greece, over the Roman empire, the Middle ages, the renaissance, the enlightenment, the big revolutions and up to today. Throughout this journey, they start to realise that they are only fictions of a story writer's imagination and start conceiving a plan for escaping into reality. (Written by Anders E Lundin )
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Absolutt Blåmandag
Title: Absolutt Blåmandag
Character: Erna
Released: January 29, 1999
Type: Movie
John and Siri Lill are a couple who have been together for most of their forty something years, but are yet to be married. He works for a newspaper, and is a heavy drinker. She is a respected hairdresser, working for Birger, a commom friend. John, usually, bottle-in-hand is an ace at being at the wrong place at the wrong time. Tired of John's drinking, Siri decides to leave him and move to her parents' house. John's drinking then worsens, and their apartment becomes a mess. Siri decides to return to her and John's place, and that's when the Absolute Hangover really begins with a vengeance.
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Cellophane
Title: Cellophane
Character: Åse Lund
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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Only Clouds Move the Stars
Title: Only Clouds Move the Stars
Character: Grandmother
Released: August 24, 1998
Type: Movie
Eleven year old Maria has lost her little brother to cancer. Having disappeared into herself, her mother is no longer there for Maria and her father struggles to keep the family together. Maria meets Jacob, who is the same age as she, but with a completely different attitude. Jacob is outgoing, exciting, funny and has wisdom way beyond his tender years. He gradually pulls Maria out of her shell and enables her to come to decisions which will affect her entire life.
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Title: Mot i brøstet
Character: Dr. Line Berntsen
Released: January 22, 1993
Type: TV
Mot i Brøstet is a Norwegian situation comedy created by Tore Ryen. It originally aired on TV 2 from 22 January 1993 to 8 December 1997 and has since aired in reruns on various TV2 channels. It was the commercial Norwegian sitcom, and remains popular with fans, even fifteen years after its end. It was released on DVD in 2007. A spin-off, Karl & Co, aired on TV 2 for three seasons from 1998 to 2001, spawning a total of 63 episodes. Another spin-off, Karl III, aired on TV 2 in 2009, but was cancelled after only 12 episodes due to negative reviews.
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Out of Order!
Title: Out of Order!
Character: Bitten Willien
Released: November 10, 1992
Type: Movie
A labor party leader is having an affair with the opposing party's secretary. Unfortunately for them, there seems to be a corpse in their hotel room just as they managed to sneak in unnoticed.
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Svampe
Title: Svampe
Character: Edna
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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Visiting Hours
Title: Visiting Hours
Character: Legen
Released: January 1, 1990
Type: Movie
Last summer Kristian celebrated finishing school with Interrail in Europe. A year later, the situation is completely different and Kristian is hospitalized with cancer. Unvarnished and unsentimental, we are presented with both his own and his friends' reactions to the disease.
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Title: Vertshuset Den Gyldne Hale
Character: Julie
Released: December 1, 1989
Type: TV
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Grandma and the Eight Children in the Woods
Title: Grandma and the Eight Children in the Woods
Character: Hulda Nedenunder
Released: September 18, 1979
Type: Movie
The eight kids Maren, Martin, Marte, Mads, Mona, Milly, Mina and Morten has moved with their parents and grandmother from the tiny apartment in the city to a cozy, red house in the forest. Here there is plenty of room for everyone to play, and having grandmother around proves to be useful. She watches the kids, sells waffles to passing ski-goers, and mediates between her own local knights and the attacking Indians from Tiriltoppen.
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Lucie
Title: Lucie
Released: September 7, 1979
Type: Movie
Norwegian: The late 19th century Christiania (Oslo) could offer a rich variety of entertainment. There were several variety theatres and brothels, and poor women could earn money based on their looks. The beautiful variety actress Lucie (Inger Lise Rypdal) has met a lawyer by the name Gerner (Gösta Ekman), a refined gentleman. Flowers and encounters outside the theatre develops into an erotic relationship. Lucie knows how to play on Gerner's jealousy and masculine pride, and finally she reaches her goal: becoming Mrs Gerner. For Lucie this means climbing the social ladder, but she'll soon notice the problems. Living in the upperclass society keeps reminding her of her poor background and her lack of etiquette. All this affects Gerner in a negative way, who is plagued by jealousy regarding people from Lucie's past. The relationship between the married couple keeps getting worse.
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John Gabriel Borkman
Title: John Gabriel Borkman
Released: January 10, 1978
Type: Movie
Based on a play by Henrik Ibsen (Norwegian)
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Grandma and the Eight Children
Title: Grandma and the Eight Children
Character: Damen nedenfor
Released: March 25, 1977
Type: Movie
The eight children Maren, Martin, Marte, Mads, Mona, Milly, Mina and Morten Minstemann, live with their parents in a tiny apartment in the city. Grandmother lives in the country side, but one day she comes to town for a visit. Everything is new and unusual for her, and she doesn't act like other people in the city. However, the children helps her out and they go for a trolley ride. When it's time for Grandmother to go back home she has no money for the train ticket. She spent her money on kitchen supplies, and now the children tries to come up with a plan to get her home. Easier said than done
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The Pinchcliffe Grand Prix
Title: The Pinchcliffe Grand Prix
Character: Solan Gundersen (voice)
Released: August 28, 1975
Type: Movie
100 miles north, a bit east and up, is Pinchcliffe, the home of bicycle repairman Reodor Felgen and his two assistants, Solan Gundersen and Ludvig. Sponsored by oil sheik Ben Redic Fy Fazan, they build the car "Il Tempo Gigante" to race against Reodor's former assistant Rudolf Blodstrupmoen, who has stolen one of Reodor's inventions to become a world racing champion.
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Den siste Fleksnes
Title: Den siste Fleksnes
Character: Elsa Eng
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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Marikens bryllup
Title: Marikens bryllup
Character: Frisørdamen
Released: April 3, 1972
Type: Movie
Follows the entire day of Mariken and Per Egil's wedding.
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The Olsen Gang and Dynamite-Harry
Title: The Olsen Gang and Dynamite-Harry
Character: Bodil Hansen
Released: August 10, 1970
Type: Movie
A foreign criminal gang makes a large-scale bank coup. The suspicion falls on the Olsen Gang. They escape, take up the hunt for the real criminals and thus it all starts. The police are looking for the Olsen Gang, and they are looking for the real criminals.
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To på topp
Title: To på topp
Character: Vera Schultz
Released: August 29, 1965
Type: Movie
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Nydelige nelliker
Title: Nydelige nelliker
Released: December 12, 1964
Type: Movie
Classic Norwegian Comedy from the 1960's. The Capital City of Norway is changing for the alleged better after WWII, yet not everyone wants anything to change, Living in their own way, not willing to accept truth, free enterprise and each other, As a result they spend plenty of time inside prison...
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Surrounded
Title: Surrounded
Released: January 1, 1960
Type: Movie
Filmen beskriver hvordan motstandsmannen Knut Magne Haugland i 1944 opererte en illegal telegrafi-stasjon på Rikshospitalets tak under den andre verdenskrig.
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5 loddrett
Title: 5 loddrett
Character: Ung testsanger
Released: August 17, 1959
Type: Movie
Knut leads a record company, and when he meets the night club singer Anita Daae, his wife has to win him back.
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Går ut i kveld
Title: Går ut i kveld
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
Based on a play by Harold Pinter.