Elsa Lystad

Elsa Lystad

Born: July 9, 1930

Movies for Elsa Lystad...

Wide Blue Yonder
Title: Wide Blue Yonder
Character: Laura
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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Blackmail for Beginners
Title: Blackmail for Beginners
Character: Grandmother
Released: September 30, 2011
Type: Movie
In desperate need of $150,000 for his father's heart transplant, Simen tries to blackmail a dysfunctional robber.
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Magic Silver 2
Title: Magic Silver 2
Character: Gamlemor
Released: May 5, 2011
Type: Movie
It's the harshest winter in memory, and the gnomes' very existence is in danger. Eager to help, Queen Fjellrose betrays one of their strictest rules and goes out looking for the Blue Horn, a magical instrument that can alter the weather.
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Title: Good Night, Darling
Character: Fru Raglo
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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Title: Trygdekontoret
Released: February 11, 2009
Type: TV
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Ja vi elsker ARVE!
Title: Ja vi elsker ARVE!
Released: January 1, 2007
Type: Movie
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Title: Slangebæreren
Character: Bergljot Behrens
Released: October 27, 2005
Type: TV
Norwegian miniseries based on Unni Lindell's mystery novel.
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Title: Hos Martin
Released: January 6, 2004
Type: TV
Hos Martin is a Norwegian situation comedy that premiered on TV2 on January 6, 2004.
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Rett i lomma
Title: Rett i lomma
Character: Frk. Kaupang
Released: December 31, 1998
Type: Movie
Erik Bruun (Nils Vogt) milks the social security system by making up a lot of tenants with one social security-entitled defect worse than the other, he starts this after he is fired two years earlier. His wife Linda (Kjersti Døvigen) knows nothing about this, but then one day when social security inspector Fylking (Ole Jørgen Nilsen) suddenly knocks on the door to check the conditions, a huge and increasingly complicated and intricate process starts for Bruun in the hope of avoiding to be revealed.
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Maja Stoneface
Title: Maja Stoneface
Character: Grandma
Released: October 4, 1996
Type: Movie
While her mama is at the hospital to give birth, and her dad has gone off with a mistress, Maja has to survive by herself and her grandma, thanks to her Indian costume and her second Indian identity as Maja Stoneface.
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Fredrikssons fabrikk – The movie
Title: Fredrikssons fabrikk – The movie
Character: Oddveig
Released: December 26, 1994
Type: Movie
Newly divorced factory manager Fredriksson has found a new partner, and has hired her as chief designer at the factory. Her role models are the top fashion houses in Paris, and she has plans ready for renovations. But how do the employees react? Pia, Kari, Oddveig, Margit and Tommy? And what happens when everyone is laid off due to declining order intake?
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Latterbrøl med Arve Opsahl
Title: Latterbrøl med Arve Opsahl
Released: May 11, 1992
Type: Movie
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Frida - Straight from the Heart
Title: Frida - Straight from the Heart
Character: Ellinor Svendsen
Released: August 22, 1991
Type: Movie
Frida, aged 13, has discovered a book by psychoanalyst Erich Fromm called "The art of loving". Using it as a reference she sets out to better the love lives of her family and friends. But love works in mysterious ways...
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Title: Fredrikssons fabrikk
Character: Oddveig
Released: September 15, 1990
Type: TV
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Viva Villaveien!
Title: Viva Villaveien!
Character: Alice Lindeblad
Released: December 26, 1989
Type: Movie
Viva Villa Road deals with a handful of neighbors who completely unaware manages to go to Gran Canaria at the same time. For many, this would be a nice, but for Swedish Reidar Frank (Brass Brännström), pensioner Sigurd Vatne (Sverre Hansen) and crazy Alice Lindblad (Elsa Lystad) this is the worst thing that could have occurred. After countless neighborhood feuds they all had, by coincidence, decided to travel to the Canary Islands to escape the unwanted situation of Villa Road. Therefore, the disputes continue also in the holiday paradise of the other family members' great despair. This surprisingly leads to a lot of funny episodes that contain both problems with the travel company, absurd misunderstandings and intricate entanglement that eventually tie up to a pretty successful movie.
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Sweetwater
Title: Sweetwater
Character: Marta
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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Plastposen
Title: Plastposen
Character: Kioskdame
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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Deilig er fjorden
Title: Deilig er fjorden
Character: Rigmor Svahberg
Released: July 10, 1985
Type: Movie
I mange år har Terje Svahberg spart til hytte. Men så skjer det noe, brått og uventet. Han blir båtkåt. Og før noen egentlig vet ordet av det, har han foretatt seg transaksjoner som gjør ham til en stolt innehaver av en båt i luksusklassen...og alt som derav følger.
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Den grønne heisen
Title: Den grønne heisen
Character: Topsy Lorck Mathiesen
Released: October 26, 1981
Type: Movie
Den grønne heisen (English: The green elevator) is a 1981 Norwegian comedy film directed by Odd-Geir Sæther, based on a play by Avery Hopwood, and starring Rolv Wesenlund and Øivind Blunck.
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Glade vrinsk
Title: Glade vrinsk
Released: February 10, 1975
Type: Movie
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The Olsen Gang and Dynamite-Harry Goes Wild
Title: The Olsen Gang and Dynamite-Harry Goes Wild
Character: Ragna
Released: November 26, 1973
Type: Movie
Egon and the gang is about to commit their biggest heist – stealing 6 millions from an undercover operation at a freight company. The money is stored in the most advanced security vault ever constructed, guarded by professional gorillas.
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Dear Little Norway
Title: Dear Little Norway
Released: January 17, 1973
Type: Movie
A filming of and around a Chat Noir show revue from 1972.
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Mord i det hvite hus
Title: Mord i det hvite hus
Released: June 27, 1972
Type: Movie
Based on a play by Jules Feiffer
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An Enemy of the People
Title: An Enemy of the People
Character: Mrs. Stockmann
Released: March 14, 1972
Type: Movie
Drama by Henrik Ibsen (1882). Edited and instructed by Per Bronken. The action is set in a coastal town in southern Norway which is known for its healthy bathing establishment.
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Closed Ward
Title: Closed Ward
Released: March 8, 1972
Type: Movie
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 sense or good taste.
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22 november - den store leiegården
Title: 22 november - den store leiegården
Released: January 14, 1969
Type: Movie
Based on a play by Tom Eyen.
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The Market of the Unknowns
Title: The Market of the Unknowns
Released: November 7, 1968
Type: Movie
The Market of the Unknowns is a burlesque and socially critical tale of a flea market in Oslo, which is organized for the benefit of slum dwellers in Lima. Based a on novel by Åge Rønning.
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Smugglers
Title: Smugglers
Character: Jenny
Released: September 3, 1968
Type: Movie
For many, the happy twenties were not very happy, with high unemployment, poverty and a bitter disillusioned youth. But at the same time there was prohibition in Norway, with large-scale smuggling and easy-earned money. Ernst, an unemployed architect, stumbles onto the smuggler path, and replaces a gray, boring life with a lush, rowdy and colorful world. Klara, the girl he loves, walks away from him, and Jenny becomes his new girlfriend. Together with Hugo and Elsa, these four make a number of smuggling trips by car - with big profits - but it's not enough. So Ernst invests in boats, and that's when the really messy smuggling starts. He operates in the entire Oslo Fjord, all the way down to Rotterdam, pursued by police and customs, with his infamous torpedo boats. We follow Ernst all the way to the so-called Bygdøyslaget, where smugglers and police brutaly clash together.
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The Man Who Could Not Laugh
Title: The Man Who Could Not Laugh
Released: February 3, 1968
Type: Movie
A man who can not laugh gets help by a psychiatrist.
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Love Thy Neighbour
Title: Love Thy Neighbour
Character: Frk. Andresen
Released: September 1, 1967
Type: Movie
Love Thy Neighbour (Danish: Elsk... din næste!, German: Vergiß nicht deine Frau zu küssen ) is a 1967 Danish-German comedy film directed by Egil Kolstø and starring Walter Giller.
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Liv
Title: Liv
Character: Damen i vinduet
Released: March 27, 1967
Type: Movie
A day in the life of photo model Liv. But it's no ordinary day. She breaks up with her fiance, father and her own empty life as a model, and has to find a new place to live. But is it that easy to make a clean break?
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Title: Kontorsjef Tangen
Character: Dame i kassa
Released: November 27, 1966
Type: TV
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Congratulations Andersens!
Title: Congratulations Andersens!
Character: Fru Salvesen
Released: September 1, 1966
Type: Movie
Father and mother Andersen and their four children live in a closed down farmside storehouse in the outskirts of Oslo. They enjoy life here, but the many neibours surrounding them are less enthusiastic about the family's lack of respect towards the supposed social order and decency they live by.
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Pappa tar gull
Title: Pappa tar gull
Character: Sykegymnasten
Released: October 22, 1964
Type: Movie
Directed and written by Arne Skouen, «Pappa tar gull» (also known as "Daddy's Success") is a 1964 Comedy film . Sølvi Wang and Henki Kolstad are starring, alongside Carsten Winger, Jon Lennart Mjøen, Synne Skouen and Willie Hoel.
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Freske fraspark
Title: Freske fraspark
Character: Ollvars kone
Released: August 18, 1963
Type: Movie
Per has won the 50 kilometer in Holmenkollen, but which village is he from, Alvdal or Tynset?
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Ungen
Title: Ungen
Character: Sersjant-Petra
Released: September 22, 1960
Type: Movie
Milja, living in Kristiania in the late 1800s, becomes pregnant, but the father of the child, Julius, is not around after the child has been born and Milja decides to adopt it. Milja struggles to live with her decision.
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Lend Me Your Wife
Title: Lend Me Your Wife
Character: Selskapsgjest
Released: September 3, 1958
Type: Movie
This is a light comedy from Edith Carlmar, Norways first woman director. It takes place in a company that sells baby toys. It is time to fill a leading position, and it is known the owner of the company only places married men on leading positions. This leads a young bachelor to "borrow" his best friends wife to have a chance at the position. This leads to a lot of comic misunderstandings, not the least because the owner of the company himself falls for the new young wife.