Pehr Qværnstrøm
Actor
Movies11
- Movie10.0Comedy
Two young girls go to the big city to work in a food store. The owner's wife believes she's sick, and the owner is more than interested in the two girls. Based on Oscar Braathen's Novel.
Godvakker-Maren
1940 · 1 votes
- Movie8.0Drama
It is about life in the working-class youth groups, the work of the abstinence movement, about friendship, unity and love between young people.
Lenkene brytes
1938 · 1 votes
- Movie8.0Drama
An interesting look into 1931, a year of unemployment and misery in the forests of Norway. The movie is important as both film history and social portrayal. We get insight into working conditions class differences between loggers and forest owners. Based on the events of the Julussa conflict the movie depicts early labour organization, unity and strike.
Movie9.0DramaYoung student Steffen Berg finds it difficult to adapt to society's laws and rules. After dropping out of medical school, he starts working in a shop to support his family, together with his brother Jørgen and sister Gerda, and to keep his mother out of a nursing home. One of Steffen's friends is going to America with his wife and needs money. Steffen takes 500 kroner from the store's cash register. The next day, there is an audit and Steffen's theft is discovered.
Så møtes vi i morgen
1946 · 1 votes
- MovieDrama
The first ever Norwegian fiction film. The film is lost.
- Movie7.0Drama
Based on the true story of Norway's first labor strike, by female workers at a match factory in 1889.
Gryr i Norden
1939 · 1 votes
- Movie3.7Drama
No one knows that the rich landowner of Borgan is the father of Anne whose parents work on the farm. The landowner's brother has bad times in the city and his son wants to be a farmer. he is secretly engaged to be married to Anne.
Familien på Borgan
1939 · 3 votes
Movie9.0FantasyCrimeIn beautiful Telemark, a young boy grows up on a rich farm. To his fathers dislike, he wants to be a fiddle player, just like the son at the poorer neighboring farm. One day the father is found dead.
Kaksen paa Øverland
1920 · 1 votes
- MovieDrama
An early Norwegian silent short.
Movie6.5DramaThe classic movie from 1938 is an adaptation of Oscar Braatens play. Eva Sletto plays the young factory worker Milja, and Harald Heide Steen as her unfaithful boyfriend Julius.Milja and Julius are a happy couple working at the factory, and everything is good until Petrina shows up at the arena. Julius is bewitched by the girl, who gets him to drink and steal.Milja is soon left alone with the shame - and a bastard child. The child is placed with Hønse-Lovisa while Milja is at the factory, but a doctor casts his eyes on Milja`s young. He's looking for children to adopt to rich westside people. In her desperation, Milja gives away the dearest thing she owns, for the kid to have better conditions than she manages to give him.It is Hønse-Lovisa that convinces her that the material benefits can never compensate for real love and care.
- Movie3.3Comedy
David has just been released from the prison. He meets the prostitute Maggi and follows her home. They decide to start a new life together and move to the countryside.
Bra mennesker
1937 · 3 votes