Marianne Nielsen

A drama focused on Norwegian society in the 1970s, an era politically influenced by Marxism and Leninism.

An adventure can occur anywhere. Also at the bus stop.

A boy witnesses his father lose his temper in the face of a stranger.

Serinin 2. filminde Varg Veum, zengin bir iş adamının evden kaçan 16 yaşındaki kızı Lisa'yı bulma işini alır. Kızı Kopenhag'da fahişeler sokağında bulur ve Norveç'teki ailesine geri getirecektir. Bu esnada Lisa'nın yakın arkadaşı olan 21 yaşındaki Peter da kayıptır. Ailesi Veum'dan Peter'ı bulmasını ister fakat onlara yardım etmekte isteksizdir. Ancak uyuşturucu bağımlısı arkadaşı Peter, Bergen'deki bir otel odasında ölü olarak bulunur. Lisa'nın peşine bir yandan uyuşturucu satıcısı düşerken diğer yandan da polis, onu cinayetin baş şüphelisi olarak görmektedir.

This melodrama is based on the best-selling autobiography of Ida Halvorsen, a part-time prostitute with a life that was difficult to survive. Ida (Kristin Kajander) grew up with an alcoholic father, and after she married an alcoholic, her life went from early marital bliss to misery. She had a child during that marriage, took drugs, and turned to prostitution to get the money she needed. Along the way, many characters she met were dangerous and in more than one instance almost killed her. For Norwegians who are familiar with her story, the ending to the film will be recognized as incomplete, the story continues. For other audiences the ending might be a little grim.

Revolving around the life of un-produced screenwriter Barnum Nilsen, The Half Brother is a dramatic family saga that offers an historical parable of 20th century Europe. On V Day, May 1945, as a continent emerges from war, Barnum’s mother Vera is raped in her attic in Oslo by an unknown man, leading to the birth of Barnum’s half brother, Fred. When Barnum is born five years later, to the man that Vera has since met and married, the Nilsen family, like Europe, is already splitting in two. Growing up together during the Cold War – Barnum with his father, Fred searching for his – the half brothers become estranged and Fred eventually disappears. At the film festival in Berlin in 1990, as the Wall is still coming down, Barnum learns that Fred has returned. Finally, as the true identity of Fred’s father comes to light, the two half brothers may once again be reunited.