Tryggve Larssen
Actor · 1887 – 1967
Movies24
Movie6.7DramaBased upon true events and the novel by Gabriel Scott about terrible conditions in a foster family.
Movie7.4ComedyDramaThe young fisherman Tørres wants to become rich, so he can get revenge over Krøger, who has taken his family home. He gets a job in Mrs. Knudsen's shop to establish himself, and after a short time he has the upper hand on Krøger...
Tørres Snørtevold
1940 · 5 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
- Movie8.0DramaRomance
A young couple is in love, but Nina's father has seen another young man as her future man. It doesn't help when Nina's lover is convicted.
Viddenes folk
1928 · 1 votes
Movie7.1DramaRomanceRanged across several generations, the story begins with a wealthy merchant, Lind, and his wife travelling in the coldest depths of winter to christen their baby daughter. Attacked by wolves, they lose the baby, which is found by the Lapp Jaampa (a dominating performance by Tryggve Larssen) and subsequently raised by a rich reindeer herder,
Laila
1929 · 8 votes
Movie6.2ComedyDramaThe story of the sour old virgin who celebrates Christmas with the judge Bals. She makes life miserable for both the family and the other guests. There are many complications, which does not resolve until Christmas Eve is over.
Tante Pose
1940 · 8 votes
Movie8.0A story of Lap herders who rescue a baby from a herd of wolves and name her Laila (played by Aino Taube as an adult). The pictorial beauty of the country is complimented by action shots of wolves and reindeer.
Laila
1937 · 1 votes
Movie7.0AdventureCrimeA reindeer company is being robbed for reindeer. The police hasn't got a clue, and a new investigator is sent. The thieves want to get rid of him, but things don't go as planned.
Villmarkens lov
1944 · 1 votes
- 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
- Movie8.0Drama
Harald's wife Eva has ambitions of becoming a writer, and divorces him to marry one of his friends, Anton. But Anton can't forget his former wife Ragna, and Harald is inheriting a large sum of money. Will this change things?
Kjærlighet og vennskap
1941 · 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.
Movie10.0DramaBusinessman Braa has many enemies and is put in prison after a scam. While in prison his wife dies of a serious illness, while Roll takes over the business. But he is not popular with the workers. When Braa gets out, it's time for revenge.
Sangen til livet
1943 · 1 votes
Movie5.5ComedyPrivate investigators Gløgg and Rask have been hired to trace a butcher (sausage-maker) who has disappeared. This leads the two into a number of adventures.
- Movie7.0Drama
The film was commissioned by the Workers' Information Association to motivate rural voters to vote.
Norge for folket
1936 · 1 votes
- Movie7.0Drama
When a popular doctor, leading the job to get a hospital to town, celebrates his 60th birthday there's a big party. But a new doctor discovers malpractice. But when the doctor is ill with a bad appendix, the tables are turned.
Den nye lægen
1943 · 1 votes
- Movie7.0History
Describes the origin and development of the trade union movement.
Samhold må til
1935 · 1 votes
Movie6.5DramaImber has a child with the dubious fiancé Erland. He is destructive and his unhealthy lifestyle subjects his family to starvation and the death of their child. Imber falls in love with Arne and a settlement between Arne and Erland unfolds.
- Movie9.0DramaRomance
Trysil-Knut is a Norwegian film from 1942. Directed by veteran Rasmus Breistein and is a ski themed melodrama about the legendary skier Trysil-Knut from Trysil. He is a powerful patriot, who in the early 1800s prevent that a war breaks out between Norway and Sweden using his skiing skills. While that goes on Knut is also preparing a court case of fraud to determine the ownership of his fathers old farm.
Trysil-Knut
1942 · 1 votes
Movie5.9DramaMysteryThis the story of a wizard elk - Rauten, as people called him. He was a human being in animal guise. The story begins in Ré Valley, which lies like a yawning gap between mountains, long and flat with borders of forests so dark that they look as though part of the blackness of night lingered in them. A river moves sluggishly along the bottom of the valley, making its way slowly and carefully between stretches of light-red sand. It runs northwards, a rare thing in Norway.
Troll-Elgen
1927 · 10 votes
Movie5.7RomanceDramaDuring the great Nordic war in 1719, the Swedes have occupied parts of Norway. During the retreat over Tydal mountains most freezes to death. However, some seek refuge in mountain huts. The farmers chase them. The Swede hater Sjur come on tracks of Per Jons, seeking refuge in a mountain hut where Sjur's daughter Eli is located. She takes care of the wounded Per and there is a love affair between them. A relationship which does not fall in well with her father.
Eli Sjursdotter
1938 · 3 votes
- Movie10.0Drama
A young Norwegian woman lives in a remote fishing village Dreaming of life in the big city, she sends her photo to a beauty contest. She is appointed to represent Norway in a competition for the "Nordic Venus".
Frestelse
1940 · 1 votes
Movie6.3ComedyThe wealthy farmer sits safely on his ancestral farm, and the hard-working tenant farmer lives on the hill below. The horse dealer at the coach station will trick the innocent farmer, who is not so innocent after all, with cunning tricks. The mischievous boy who bullies the servants when his mother and father are away, the kind-hearted little boy who helps his grandfather when no one else will listen to the old man, the village eccentric who never tires of recounting his youthful adventures in the city, the worn-out wife who will not send her cow to the show at any price.
Storfolk og småfolk
1951 · 3 votes
- Movie10.0Drama
The film is a so-called "worker's film", which was made on behalf of the Workers' Information Association to motivate voters in the cities to vote for the Labor Party in the 1936 parliamentary elections.
Vi bygger landet
1936 · 1 votes
Movie7.0DramaThe film is often referred to as a «labor film», because it is one of several film dramas from the 1930s that the Norwegian labor movement supported and which should give the audience an understanding of the labor movement's politics.
By og land hand i hand
1937 · 1 votes