Anders Baasmo Christiansen

Anders Baasmo Christiansen

Born: January 29, 1976
in Hamar, Norway
Anders Baasmo Christiansen, born 29 January 1976 is a Norwegian actor from Hamar, Norway.

He earned his breakthrough in 2003 when he received the Amanda-price for his performance in the Norwegian picture Buddy.

He also won the TV award Gullruten in 2007 for his portrait of Henrik Ibsen in the TV-series An immortal man ("En udødelig mann") on NRK.

Christiansen graduated from the Norwegian Acting Academy in 2000. He started his professional career at the Trøndelag Teater in Trondheim, Norway. Later he joined the Det Norske Teatret in Oslo.

He has also starred in the Swedish 2007 picture Arn – The Knight Templar, and its sequel Arn – The Kingdom at Road's End from 2008.

In 2008 he won Norway's most prestigious actor's award, the Heddaprisen, for his interpretation of Hamlet. He then became the first actor to collect an Amanda, a Gullruten and a Hedda award.

He will be receiving the Shooting Stars Award, the annual acting award for up-and-coming actors by European Film Promotion, at the Berlin International Film Festival 2010.

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Movies for Anders Baasmo Christiansen...

Convoy
Title: Convoy
Released: December 25, 2023
Type: Movie
In 1942, a convoy of 35 civilian ships, carrying vital supplies from Iceland to the Soviet Union, faces deadly challenges in the Arctic. Despite Allied naval escort, catastrophic intelligence errors expose the convoy to relentless German air and naval attacks. In the brutal conditions, inexperienced civilian sailors fight for survival, with only 12 ships making it to their destination.
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Title: Power Play
Character: Odvar Nordli
Released: October 29, 2023
Type: TV
The incredible story of Gro Harlem Brundtland, who in the late 70s works as a young doctor, fighting for self-determined abortion, when she almost by accident, stumbles into politics. As the government implodes around her, Gro learns to play her own games of power, climbing the ranks until she is the last woman standing in the ruins of Labour’s celebrated social democracy, ending up as Norway’s first female Prime Minister in 1981.
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Dancing Queen
Title: Dancing Queen
Character: Ove
Released: August 4, 2023
Type: Movie
12-year-old Mina freaks out when famous hip-hop dancer ED Win moves to town and starts at her school. Mina falls in love and when ED announces he's forming a new dance group for a dance competition in town, Mina decides to audition. The only problem is that she can't dance.
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Munch
Title: Munch
Character: Rolf Stenersen
Released: January 27, 2023
Type: Movie
Edvard Munch was one of the most important artists in the period between the 19th and 20th centuries. His motif Skrik (The Scream), repeated in several techniques, became part of the 20th-century world subconsciousness – an image of fear and loneliness most people probably know, even if they have no idea who created it.
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Three Robbers and a Lion
Title: Three Robbers and a Lion
Character: Politimester Bastian (voice)
Released: December 25, 2022
Type: Movie
The three thieves Kasper, Jesper and Jonathan lives together with their always hungry lion in the little town of Kardemomme town, the home to a fair but kind police officer, and the strict Aunt Sofie.
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Jentetur
Title: Jentetur
Character: Teacher
Released: October 14, 2022
Type: Movie
After a bad divorce life gets complicated for Linda. Her ex has found a beautiful model who gradually is more and more of a mother to Linda's 10-year-old daughter, as well as redoing their house. Even her best friend is now hers.
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Olsenbanden - Siste skrik!
Title: Olsenbanden - Siste skrik!
Character: Egon Olsen
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 Burning Sea
Title: The Burning Sea
Character: Ronny
Released: October 29, 2021
Type: Movie
An oil platform dramatically goes down on the Norwegian coast, and researchers try to find out what happened when they realize this is just the start of something even more serious.
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Dragon Girl
Title: Dragon Girl
Character: Tim
Released: November 13, 2020
Type: Movie
Nine year old Sara befriends a newborn dragon, together they will turn Christmas upside down and literary put it on fire.
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Asphalt Burning
Title: Asphalt Burning
Character: Roy
Released: October 14, 2020
Type: Movie
The third and final instalment in the Burnout trilogy. This time, the road leads through Norway, to Sweden, Denmark and finally Germany to race on the famous racing track, Nürburgring.
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63 Days Later
Title: 63 Days Later
Character: Kristian
Released: June 10, 2020
Type: Movie
Tara was the victim of a brutal attack and attempted murder. 63 days later, the police and Correctional Service ask her to meet with her attacker as part of his rehabilitation process. For Tara, the meeting is the beginning of her hell. Based on a true story.
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Forgotten Christmas
Title: Forgotten Christmas
Character: Julenissen
Released: November 8, 2019
Type: Movie
Carpenter Andersen and Santa Claus are back and this time they have to help little Elise save christmas before it's too late.
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Title: Seizure
Character: Sander Holm
Released: October 31, 2019
Type: TV
Oslo detectives Max Sørensen and Sander Holm are called in to investigate after four young immigrant boys are found dead in an empty swimming pool. Bizarre twists in the case brings the detectives face to face with both their own demons and a dark sequence of increasingly inexplicable events.
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Title: Exit
Character: Pål Bugge Krøvel
Released: September 27, 2019
Type: TV
Exit is based on the true stories of four men in their mid-30s, who all became multi-millionaires before the age of thirty. Attempting to escape from their obligations, expectations and families, they employ drugs, prostitutes, and their very own set of morals.
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The Birdcatcher
Title: The Birdcatcher
Character: Tor
Released: March 8, 2019
Type: Movie
Norway, 1942, during World War II. After being separated from her family, Esther, a young Jewish girl from Trondheim, arrives at an isolated farm where she must assume a new identity in order to survive the Nazi persecution.
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Out Stealing Horses
Title: Out Stealing Horses
Character: Olav
Released: March 8, 2019
Type: Movie
November 1999. 67-year-old Trond lives in new-found solitude and looks forward to spending New Year's Eve 2000 alone. As winter arrives he discovers he has a neighbor, a man Trond knew back in 1948, the summer he turned 15 and the summer Trond's father prepared him to carry the burden of his forthcoming betrayal and disappearance.
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Blind Spot
Title: Blind Spot
Character: Anders
Released: August 24, 2018
Type: Movie
Blind Spot is a story about the grey zones in mental illness; the blind spots hard to discover, as experienced by a mother realizing her daughter struggling with far worse issues than she realized.
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Opportunity Knocks
Title: Opportunity Knocks
Character: Jens Berge
Released: February 21, 2018
Type: Movie
A modern remake of the classic movie where our main characters meets unforeseen troubles and bureaucracy when they build a new house. A hopeless and hilarious meet with the system.
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Title: One Night
Character: Jonas
Released: February 2, 2018
Type: TV
Romantic series about two people that meet at a blind date.
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The Tree Feller
Title: The Tree Feller
Character: Anders
Released: April 7, 2017
Type: Movie
Anders moves from the city to a quiet small farm that belonged to his deceased parents and spends his days out in the forest, aimlessly chopping down trees. His only desire is to be out in nature, and to lose himself in the physical work. His attempt to escape is soon interrupted by the constant involvement of his pushy relatives who want to tell him what to do and how to do it. Soon it becomes clear that Anders has just traded in one claustrophobic existence for another.
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Undercover
Title: Undercover
Character: Thorbjørn
Released: November 24, 2016
Type: Movie
In the comedy ' undercover ' is to be Denmark's worst police officer Muhammed on his first undercover mission. The only problem is that it is small and Rikke love the Thursday before Christmas. But instead of Christmas tree and gifts to Rikke transport Crown witness Mick to Funen persecuted to a notorious gangster boss, which will have a hold of Mick and the 900,000 crowns, he is over with. Linda p. gives the gas as a Danish response to Melissa McCarthy in the grove Christmas comedy, which is written by Casper Christensen and directed by former East Coast Hustler, Nikolaj Peyk.
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Santa Swap: Merry Christmas Mr. Andersen
Title: Santa Swap: Merry Christmas Mr. Andersen
Character: Julenissen
Released: November 11, 2016
Type: Movie
Carpenter Andersen and Santa Claus makes a deal which saves Christmas for them both.
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Burnout 2
Title: Burnout 2
Character: Roy Gundersen
Released: October 12, 2016
Type: Movie
After two years in prison for participating in an illegal street race, Roy says no to a new illegal winter race from Bergen to Murmansk. But then he hears that his daughter will participate with a boyfriend.
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The King's Choice
Title: The King's Choice
Character: Crown Prince Olav of Norway
Released: September 29, 2016
Type: Movie
On 9 April 1940, German soldiers arrive in the city of Oslo. The King of Norway faces a choice that will change his country forever. The King's Choice is a story about the three most dramatic days in Norway's history, the royal family's escape and King Haakon's difficult choice after Nazi Germany's invasion of Norway.
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Welcome to Norway!
Title: Welcome to Norway!
Character: Primus
Released: March 4, 2016
Type: Movie
A couple decide to open a home for refuges in the remote cold mountains of Norway.
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Beyond Sleep
Title: Beyond Sleep
Character: Mikkelsen
Released: January 27, 2016
Type: Movie
A young geologist ventures out into the vast tundra of northern Norway to finish his research on meteorite craters, only to get hopelessly lost in both the wilderness and his own mind.
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Revenge
Title: Revenge
Character: Bimbo
Released: November 6, 2015
Type: Movie
Rebekka travels back to a hotel by the Norwegian fjords seeking revenge on the man who ruined her sister's life. Under false identity, she seeks out her deceased sister's violator and embeds herself into his idyllic family to destroy his life.
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Dark Woods II
Title: Dark Woods II
Character: Ole
Released: October 9, 2015
Type: Movie
An old sanatorium is deteriorating in an isolated forest in the mountains. Five contract workers have taken on the task of tracking the huge building for hazardous waste before it's demolished. They realize that the job is more than a search for asbestos and mercury when they encounter the building's frightening past. You can demolish a building, but never remove the past.
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Staying Alive
Title: Staying Alive
Character: Håkon
Released: January 16, 2015
Type: Movie
Marianne (34) discovers that her boyfriend Håkon is having an affair. Supported by her best friend's revenge tips, Marianne stumbles into her new life where she discovers that coziness is overrated and having fun is what matters.
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Captain Sabertooth and the Treasure of Lama Rama
Title: Captain Sabertooth and the Treasure of Lama Rama
Character: König Rufus
Released: September 26, 2014
Type: Movie
The orphan boy Pinky follows the Captain on an exciting and dangerous journey across the big oceans to the kingdom of Lama Rama, hunting for a treasure and the answer to who is Pinky's father.
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Burnout
Title: Burnout
Character: Roy
Released: August 13, 2014
Type: Movie
For all who remember Cannonball Run. Here is a modern twist on the subject. The longest, wildest and funniest car race, ever. From Oslo to the North Cape. The only rule is getting there first!
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In Order of Disappearance
Title: In Order of Disappearance
Character: Geir
Released: February 21, 2014
Type: Movie
Upstanding community leader Nils has just won an award for "Citizen of the Year" when he learns the news that his son has died of a heroin overdose. Suspecting foul play, Nils begins to investigate, and soon finds himself at the center of an escalating underworld gang war between Serbian drug dealers and a sociopathic criminal mastermind known only as “The Count.”
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Bendik & monsteret
Title: Bendik & monsteret
Character: The Monster (voice)
Released: January 11, 2014
Type: Movie
Bendik & the Monster is the story of a monster, who dreams of being a cabaret singer.
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The Tough Guys
Title: The Tough Guys
Character: Lærer
Released: September 6, 2013
Type: Movie
11-year old Modulf thinks he is a super hero. Every day he is bullied by the toughest guys at school. And that's fine. Because if Modulf is the one being bullied, the other children won't be. Lise, a new girl in class, does not agree with Modulf's theories. She cares, and creates havoc in the ranks - and suddenly she is the one who must be saved.
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Every Child is Made of Fire
Title: Every Child is Made of Fire
Released: June 10, 2013
Type: Movie
Every Child is Made of Fire tells the story about Anne, a woman in her late thirties who leaves her job as an engineer to start working at a home for disadvantaged youth. Here she meets Mikael who has killed his father with a knife. It is a meeting between a person who wants to provide care, and a person who is obviously in need of so - a meeting that gets unexpected and dramatic consequences.
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Chasing the Wind
Title: Chasing the Wind
Character: Lundgren
Released: March 15, 2013
Type: Movie
Anna hasn’t seen her family for a decade. When her grandmother dies, she returns home to take care of her grandfather. In the week leading up to the funeral, nothing goes as expected, and Anna is forced to reconsider how she lives her life.
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Journey to the Christmas Star
Title: Journey to the Christmas Star
Character: Kongen
Released: November 9, 2012
Type: Movie
13 year old kind-hearted Sonja arrives at a tiny village together with a company of bandits. But there is a curse on the village. A long time ago, the King’s only daughter Goldhair disappeared while searching for the Christmas Star. The Queen died of a broken heart, leaving the shattered King all on his own. From that day on, the King cursed the Christmas Star, thereby causing darkness and grief to descend upon the land. However, an old sage has revealed that Goldhair is still alive, and will return only if the King finds the way back to the Christmas Star. Ever since, the King has been searching for the Christmas Star every Christmas, but all in vain.
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Kon-Tiki
Title: Kon-Tiki
Character: Herman Watzinger
Released: August 24, 2012
Type: Movie
The true story about legendary explorer Thor Heyerdahl and his epic crossing of the Pacific on a balsa wood raft in 1947, in an effort to prove it was possible for South Americans to settle in Polynesia in pre-Columbian times.
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Fuck Up
Title: Fuck Up
Character: Rasmussen
Released: March 16, 2012
Type: Movie
Jack is pleased with himself for the first time in years. He has decided to stop fucking anything with a pulse and also to cut back on his eager and enthusiastic drug use. Then his best friend crashes into a moose in the middle of the night on the Swedish border. He is found with a hoof buried in his forehead and 2.5 kilos of cocaine in the trunk. Over the next 24 hours, Jack loses his house, his girlfriend leaves him and takes their daughter with her. And as he is about to find out: when you think you have hit rock bottom, it can always get worse.
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Title: I kveld med Ylvis
Released: September 19, 2011
Type: TV
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Title: Norwegian Cozy
Character: Georg
Released: January 3, 2011
Type: TV
After a bad breakup, Georg goes back to live with his father Frank. His greatest desire is to be a father, and his greatest fear is to become as paranoid and intolerable as Frank. Georg, still feeling sane, starts writing letters to his future son while looking for a mother worthwhile…
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Title: Dag
Character: Benedikt Skovrand
Released: September 30, 2010
Type: TV
Meet Dag, a couple's therapist who holds a 90% divorce rate. His philosophy in life is that people should live alone and he's happy to share that with his patients. Dag leads a quiet life and the only thing he loves more than his solitude is prescription drugs. However, Dag's peaceful existence is about to change radically when Eva enters his life.
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Title: På hjul med Dag Otto
Released: April 27, 2010
Type: TV
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Title: Arn: The Knight Templar
Character: Harald Øysteinsson
Released: March 28, 2010
Type: TV
Arn has to endure so much before he can get the love of his life Cecilie, who has been put away in a monastery.
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A Somewhat Gentle Man
Title: A Somewhat Gentle Man
Character: Scrap Dealer
Released: March 19, 2010
Type: Movie
After serving a 12-year sentence for killing the man that slept with his wife, a man ponders whether he should try and reconcile with his family, or take revenge on those who turned him in.
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Rafiki
Title: Rafiki
Character: Butikknisse
Released: October 28, 2009
Type: Movie
Three friends - Julie, Mette and Naisha - are enjoying the first snow in the village. They have snowball fights with the boys and look forward to Christmas. One day Naisha suddenly disappears. With a secret address written in invisible ink as their only clue, they sneak onto the night train to the city. They need to find Naisha before the police do.
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Vegas
Title: Vegas
Character: Thorstein
Released: September 25, 2009
Type: Movie
You don't choose your family. You choose your friends. Vegas is the story of Thomas, Marianne and Terje - three teenagers with nowhere to go.
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Min pappa av papp
Title: Min pappa av papp
Character: Glenn
Released: September 21, 2009
Type: Movie
Fun family entanglement occurs when the son Nils meetings Mommy's new boyfriend for the first time.
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North
Title: North
Character: Jomar Henriksen
Released: February 6, 2009
Type: Movie
Following a nervous breakdown, ski athlete Jomar has isolated himself in a lonely existence as the guard of a ski park. When he learns that he might be the father of a child way up north, he sets on a strange and poetic journey through Norway on a snowmobile, with 5 liters of alcohol as sole provisions. On this trip through amazing arctic landscapes, Jomar seems to do everything in his power to avoid reaching his destination. He meets other tender and confused souls, who will all contribute to push Jomar further along his reluctant journey towards the brighter side of life.
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Fatso
Title: Fatso
Character: Ekspeditør i sportsbutikk
Released: October 24, 2008
Type: Movie
Overweight loner Rino spends his days in seclusion, until his dad rents a room to an overtly sexual girl who challenges Rino to break down his walls.
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Arn: The Kingdom at Road's End
Title: Arn: The Kingdom at Road's End
Character: Harald Øysteinsson
Released: August 22, 2008
Type: Movie
Arn has served his term in the Holy land and returns home to be reunited with his beloved Cecilia. When he returns home, he discovers that political forces tries to separate him and Cecilia - but thanks to queen Blanka they can finally get married. Arn knows that war is looming and with his martial knowledge he starts to build an army at his new home at Forsvik.
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Null-Null
Title: Null-Null
Character: Ivar
Released: September 19, 2007
Type: Movie
A Norwegian short film by Gaute Johnsen.
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Mars & Venus
Title: Mars & Venus
Released: February 14, 2007
Type: Movie
Ida and Mathias is a very "normal" couple. Her architect, he was a kind of production manager. They have two children, is still horny on each other. But life has set in: The kids interrupt the sex, she earns more than him, and the apartment is just too narrow and too unopposed. In short: It's time to dream. She wants to finish his life's prestige project. He would like to have a boat. Old sailboat even made of wood. One day, Mathias makes the fatal (or maybe the right thing :) He just buys the boat...
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Tommy
Title: Tommy
Character: Arild
Released: January 12, 2007
Type: Movie
Arild runs into the father of his former class mate Kjell in the mountains. Controversy from the past unfolds during this brief meeting.
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Title: An immortal man
Character: Henrik Ibsen
Released: December 26, 2006
Type: TV
The series follows the first years of Henrik Ibsen, the father of the modern drama. From he is 14 years old, until he moves to Christiania as a 22 year old.
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Title: Ran
Character: Anders
Released: February 14, 2005
Type: TV
Five boys meet in their teens. This lays the foundation for a career in crime, driven on by the dream of the big heist. Police are becoming aware of them, but the biggest threat is proving to be their own friendship. "Ran" is a high-profile television drama for four episodes. It a mix of drama and action, which is about both spectacular robberies, and about friendship and affiliation. The dilemma the gang encounters is similar to what most of us experience: there comes a point in life where the roads separate, where you realize that you and your old friends have grown apart. This causes a bigger problems for these guys, as this break is not just a little sad and melancholy experience - it is also a threat to their life, their future and their identity.
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37½
Title: 37½
Character: Jarle
Released: January 28, 2005
Type: Movie
A woman, Selma, almost 40 years old, figures that she has not achieved what she wanted in life and wonders "what now?"
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Iver
Title: Iver
Character: Lifeguard
Released: February 20, 2004
Type: Movie
Iver's favorite thing to do is swim, but today the swimming lesson is cancelled. He sneaks by the receptionist to do some swimming anyway. No matter what Iver does in the swimming pool, the strict sound of the lifeguard’s whistle is heard. Eventually he gets thrown out. He is sulking in the reception area. People are leaving the swimming pool, and Iver gets an idea! He sneaks back in to do some more swimming. But suddenly somebody is coming – it´s that scary lifeguard…
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Buddy
Title: Buddy
Character: Stig Inge Otnes
Released: August 29, 2003
Type: Movie
Kristoffer lives in Oslo with his friends Geir and Stig Inge. He works as a billboard installer, and in his spare time he makes a video diary with Geir and Stig, containing stunts of a Jackass-nature. When Kristoffer's girlfriend, Elisabeth, leaves him, his life seems to fall to pieces. Until his videos are featured on Norway's most popular talk show and Kristoffer becomes famous.
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Anolit
Title: Anolit
Character: Tore
Released: December 10, 2002
Type: Movie
A circling roadmovie told from the back seat of a styled BMW.
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Kaptein Sabeltann og jakten på den magiske diamant
Title: Kaptein Sabeltann og jakten på den magiske diamant
Character: Maga Kahn
Released: October 28, 2002
Type: Movie
En liten gutt er på flukt gjennom jungelen. Marco heter han og er Pinkys lillebror. Pinky og Sunniva har dratt av sted for å prøve å finne ham. Samtidig har selveste Kaptein Sabeltann seilt fra Det Usynlige Land. I årevis har han vært på jakt etter Den Magiske Diamant. Nå fører ryktene ham til Shangri La, en avsidesliggende sydhavsstrand. Inne i jungelen, på den andre siden av hengebroene, lurer en livsfarlig fiende, nemlig Maga Kahn, jungelens onde fyrste, og hans dronning Sirikit. Det er duket for en nervepirrende duell.
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Kaptein Sabeltann og den forheksede øya
Title: Kaptein Sabeltann og den forheksede øya
Character: Piodor
Released: June 5, 2000
Type: Movie
When Kaptein Sabeltann and his men land on the mysterious island Gral, they are warned by the sorceress Miriam av Gral, that the lord of the island, Greven av Gral (the Count of Gral), is cruel and mad, and would like to replace Kaptein Sabeltann as the king of the sea.
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Title: La Palma
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: TV
A Norwegian family checks into a hotel in La Palma. But when a young researcher discovers alarming signs from the volcano located in the center of the holiday paradise, the mood quickly turns chaotic when it is feared that a volcanic eruption will trigger the world's largest tsunami.
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Title: Harald og Sonja
Character: Kong Olav
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: TV
A lavish royal drama that tells the incredible love story of King Harald and Queen Sonja, and how their love almost plunged Norway into a constitutional crisis.