Sigmund Sæverud

In Northern Norway during the 1860s, a little girl named Dina accidentally causes her mother's death. Overcome with grief, her father refuses to raise her, leaving her in the care of the household servants. Dina grows up wild and unmanageable, with her only friend being the stable boy, Tomas. She summons her mother's ghost and develops a strange fascination with death as well as a passion for living.

On the orphanage Lykkebo, Egon sits and wants a real family - a mother and a father like Kjell has. The rich couple Gyldenløwe picks out 5 boys they consider adopting, but with a little sabotage Egon himself get picked. Suddely Egon is the rich son with a swimming pool and a big house. What Egon don't know is that Gyldenløwe has exchanged a million dollars for all the papers on Egon Olsen.

Fueled by literary aspirations and youthful exuberance, two competitive friends endure the pangs of love, depression, and burgeoning careers.

A year in the life of the Sami boy Ante. He is the son of a reindeer herder, and he dreams of taking over from his father. He loves life on the Arctic tundra, but when fall comes he has to start boarding school, while the family follows the reindeer on winter pastures. He struggles to adapt at school, but gradually he gets to know Per, who becomes his best friend. Together they plan the future. When the family has to make a difficult choice, Ante feels betrayed and disappointed. But Ante does not give up on his dream of a life on the tundra.

Varg Veum tries to help a scared girl lost in the woods at night, but he fails to avoid her death. What was this young asylum seeker fleeing from?

Three episodes based upon short stories written by Hans E. Kinck from the rural Norwegian landscapes and villages.

Short film directed by Arild Østin Ommundsen

Birte from Aursfjord, a strong-willed young woman with extraordinary psychic abilities, falls in love with a Sámi, but is forced to marry a local man.

Residents of the fishing villages of Senjahopen and Mefjordvær are going on a tax strike because they are not getting the road connection they were promised

A romantic anthology with five episodes featuring five love stories in Japan, United States, Norway, the Island of Saipan, and the one in Rjukan Norway, where the sun is brought down where the can't shine by large mirrors.

Princess Bluerose is a small gnome living deep in the Norwegian mountains. A small community of gnomes is responsible for making the transition between daylight and night. This is the magic hour, created by the magic silver, of which only these gnomes possess. When the silver is stolen, the world is transformed into eternal night. Bluerose sets out on a remarkable journey to retrieve the silver and save the world from eternal darkness.

The film follows a gang of unemployed youth in the little town of Svolvær, Lofoten, starting up an illegal radio-channel called "Radio Feskslog".

In midwinter the German illusionist Dirk Ohm arrives in the small town Grong, a place ridden by the disappearance of a young local woman Maria. Dirk soon finds himself searching for Maria side by side with the villagers of Grong; and slowly he falls in love with the missing woman. This fictional story pays tribute to a real character, and to his mysterious disappearance in the winter of 2003.

When their new TV-shop time machine mysteriously vanishes with Gaus and Roms aboard, it reappears a thousand years in the past, right where Oslo’s Tusenfryd now stands, dropping them into a brutal Viking-era feud between the Badejarls and the Granbarkebirkebeiners. Tasked with settling which clan will wield the cursed, all-powerful sword Tyrfing, they must broker peace (or chaos) while Brumund back home monitors the saga via their “Time-Phone.”

Two German soldiers has taken a Norwegian soldier as prisoner, during one of the cold Scandianvian winter nights during WW2. They are thankful that they find a lonely house out in the wilderness, but the houses aren't that cozy after all.

The northern Norwegian village of Rallkattlia is experiencing the problems currently ravaging the coast more severely than ever before. What happens when the fish are gone, agriculture is unprofitable, and the bank has gone bankrupt? We witness the residents' humorous ingenuity in their efforts to save the village. The television version was filmed in an environment strikingly similar to Rallkattlia, where the people and Oluf go hand in hand. Sei no more – sei cod or liver...

Christmas Blood is a thriller-slasher about a feared serial killer, called Nissen, who has struck Norway's countryside every Christmas Eve for over 13 years. Investigators Rasch and Hansen are trying to solve the riddle before he returns. This time it appears that it is northern Norway that will face Nissen's bloodbath.

A meeting between the Swedish/French Simone and the Norwegian Stein at a book convention in Frankfurt turns into something more. They keep contact by phone and cassettes, but it seems they don't dare to take the relationship any further.

Outer Senja in 1877. A young girl is found apparently lifeless among flotsam and seaweed. The storm has washed her ashore. Miraculously, they revive her, but she has lost her memory, and no one knows who she is or where she comes from. They call her "Båremor" or "The Girl from the Sea." A fisherman and his wife take care of her, and it gradually becomes clear that she has extraordinary abilities. Among other things, she plays the organ beautifully. The girl feels like a stranger among the weather-beaten coastal people, and she is driven to track down her original home. During her escape, she hides in the boat of the wandering vagabond Borr, a notorious and wanted daredevil. On the run from the sheriff and the priest, they try to find their way back to her birthplace.

"Dead Cold" - About a family in 2058. The father travels because the climate change makes it too cold to live on Nordkalotten/Arctic.

Himmelblå is a Norwegian drama series which aired on NRK1 in Norway, on SVT in Sweden and on RÚV in Iceland. It is based on the British TV drama Two Thousand Acres of Sky written by Timothy Prager and produced by Adrian Bate.

Offshore is a Norwegian soap opera. It is set on the oil platform 'Huldra' in the North Sea. We follow the employees and their, at times, difficult relationships both at work and in the spare time. It originally aired on NRK1 from 8 September 1996 to 28 November 1999.

A Norwegian drama about a struggling musician who turns to blackmail after witnessing a murder.