OJT
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The Dream Castle ("Drømmeslottet" in original Norwegian) is the third last of the infamous collaboration between the self-made independent Norwegian filmmakers Svend Wam og Petter Vennerød.
The movie is about a collective Oslo-Norway in the late seventies, with goal achieving, hippie aftermath, and Marxism and Socialism as a backdrop. Sex, nudity, adultery, gayness - you have it all here.
This movie has a great plot, but the script feels a bit contrived and filled with artificial dialog. A pity, because this could have been a timeless classic.
Petter Vennerød plays one of the main roles in this film himself.
The movie soundtrack includes Jørn Hoel's monster hit "Har en drøm" which adds quite well to the movie.
This movie was made available in 2024 when it was released on interregional (region-free) Blu-Ray Disk by Norwegian Film Classics as the fifth release in a new series with classics, NFK0054, with subtitles in English, and is supposed to be held in stock for film lovers.
The movie is about a collective Oslo-Norway in the late seventies, with goal achieving, hippie aftermath, and Marxism and Socialism as a backdrop. Sex, nudity, adultery, gayness - you have it all here.
This movie has a great plot, but the script feels a bit contrived and filled with artificial dialog. A pity, because this could have been a timeless classic.
Petter Vennerød plays one of the main roles in this film himself.
The movie soundtrack includes Jørn Hoel's monster hit "Har en drøm" which adds quite well to the movie.
This movie was made available in 2024 when it was released on interregional (region-free) Blu-Ray Disk by Norwegian Film Classics as the fifth release in a new series with classics, NFK0054, with subtitles in English, and is supposed to be held in stock for film lovers.
On the Threshold ("Lars i porten" in original Norwegian, which means "Lars at the gate") from 1984 is a coming-of-age family drama and a story about a boy on the verge of being a teen in the 50'ies Oslo, Norway.
It's editor Leif Erlsboe's last movie.
Lars is experiencing a different summer of big changes, and where his dream is to ride a motorbike.
Young Magnus Ersboe Haslund, is the son of the director, and plays the main character Lars well. We also meet the old boxer Joachim Calmeyer and Anne Krigsvold (a prostitute learning him to dance Tango) in important roles, as well as Anne Marie Ottersen and Frode Rasmussen as his parents. Espen Schønberg and not to forget the teacher, Nils Ole Oftebro, steals the scenes they are in.
I found the movie as a feel good movie from old and bygone eastern parts of Oslo. It's some kind of everyday life depicted, a few years after the war.
This movie is made available in 2024 when it was released on interregional (region-free) Blu-Ray Disk by Norwegian Film Classics as the fifth release in a new series with classics, NFK0056, with subtitles in English, and is supposed to be held in stock for film lovers.
It's editor Leif Erlsboe's last movie.
Lars is experiencing a different summer of big changes, and where his dream is to ride a motorbike.
Young Magnus Ersboe Haslund, is the son of the director, and plays the main character Lars well. We also meet the old boxer Joachim Calmeyer and Anne Krigsvold (a prostitute learning him to dance Tango) in important roles, as well as Anne Marie Ottersen and Frode Rasmussen as his parents. Espen Schønberg and not to forget the teacher, Nils Ole Oftebro, steals the scenes they are in.
I found the movie as a feel good movie from old and bygone eastern parts of Oslo. It's some kind of everyday life depicted, a few years after the war.
This movie is made available in 2024 when it was released on interregional (region-free) Blu-Ray Disk by Norwegian Film Classics as the fifth release in a new series with classics, NFK0056, with subtitles in English, and is supposed to be held in stock for film lovers.
This Norwegian-Swedish-Danish-German coproduction directed by Jan Troell is quite a compelling watch.
Max von Sydow playing a great role as the old writer In his early 80'ies. The Norwegian Nobel laureate has written some profoundly world-renowned novels made into films since 1916.
This film takes on Hamsun's legacy as an anti-British and pro-nazi spokesman. It tells the naïve older man's belief in the 3rd Reich, but with Norway as a sovereign nation. He meets up with Hitler, who he admires, to ask him to save Norway from Reichskommisar Terboven.
Following the last years of Hamsun's life (he died in 1952) this film gives an upright depiction of the national hero ruining his reputation with his nazi sympathies.
The film lets Max von Sydow and Danish Gitte Nørby as his wife Marie Sydow speak their own native languages, even if both Knut and Marie was Norwegian. This is it first off-outting but you soon forget it. Why it's done? Maybe making it easier to accept that he was a traitor?
In Scandinavian filmography this is a must watch.
Max von Sydow playing a great role as the old writer In his early 80'ies. The Norwegian Nobel laureate has written some profoundly world-renowned novels made into films since 1916.
This film takes on Hamsun's legacy as an anti-British and pro-nazi spokesman. It tells the naïve older man's belief in the 3rd Reich, but with Norway as a sovereign nation. He meets up with Hitler, who he admires, to ask him to save Norway from Reichskommisar Terboven.
Following the last years of Hamsun's life (he died in 1952) this film gives an upright depiction of the national hero ruining his reputation with his nazi sympathies.
The film lets Max von Sydow and Danish Gitte Nørby as his wife Marie Sydow speak their own native languages, even if both Knut and Marie was Norwegian. This is it first off-outting but you soon forget it. Why it's done? Maybe making it easier to accept that he was a traitor?
In Scandinavian filmography this is a must watch.