4 Movies Starring Gard B. Eidsvold

Zero Kelvin

Zero Kelvin

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1996-11-27

Languages:

Norwegian, Swedish

Countries:

Norway, Sweden

Runtime:

113 min

IMDB Ratings:

7.4 (1382 Reviews)

Genres:

Drama

Cast:

Writer:

Lars Bill Lundholm

Hans Petter Moland

Peter Tutein (novel)

Fullplot:

Larsen, an aspiring poet in 20's Oslo, leaves his girlfriend to spend a year as a trapper in East Greenland. There he is teamed with a seemingly rough old sailor/trapper, Randbek, and a scientist, Holm. Trapped in a tiny hut together as the arctic winter sets in, a complex and intense love/hate relationship develops between Randbek and Larsen, who are more similar than either would like to admit. A powerful psychological and physical drama set against stunningly bleak arctic scenery.

Hamsun

Hamsun

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1997-08-06

Languages:

Norwegian, Swedish, German, Danish, English

Countries:

Germany, Norway, Sweden, Denmark

Runtime:

159 min

IMDB Ratings:

7.1 (1110 Reviews)

Director:

Jan Troell

Cast:

Writer:

Per Olov Enquist

Marie Hamsun (autobiography Regnbuen)

Thorkild Hansen (book)

Jan Troell

Fullplot:

Knut Hamsun is Norway's most famous and admired author. Ever since he was young he has hated the English for the starvation they caused Norway during WWI. When the Germans occupy Norway on April 9, 1940, he welcomes them and the protection they can give from Great Britain. He supports the national socialist ideals, but opposes the way these ideals are turned into action - that Norwegians are jailed and executed. His wife Marie travels in Germany during the war as a sign of support from Knut and herself.

The Radio Pirates

The Radio Pirates

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2007-09-14

Languages:

Norwegian

Countries:

Norway

Runtime:

85 min

IMDB Ratings:

5.4 (87 Reviews)

Director:

Stig Svendsen

Genres:

ComedyFamily

Fullplot:

Karl Jonathan Grannemann moves with his dad to the fathers childhood home in Skjelleruten a little city on the country, a city where the child is overprotected by the adults, the child has to wear a helmet in the school yard, an ride on bike with to extra wheel until the are thirteen. Nonone can have fun, that was before Karl Jonathan move to down, and stick to the man, Karl Jonathan and Sisiline by accident find a pirate radio station and sent pirate broadcast.

A Somewhat Gentle Man

A Somewhat Gentle Man

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2010-03-19

Languages:

Norwegian, Swedish, Saami

Countries:

Norway

Runtime:

113 min

IMDB Ratings:

(4513 Reviews)

Fullplot:

Ulrik is reluctantly let out of prison after serving 12 years for murder. He has to cope with his gang, his ex, a few women - and a snitch. His son has a fiancè. Her family doesn't approve of murder. They have a nursery, they have principles. Ulrik is a somewhat gentle man. But how gentle can you be? ...and he's losing his hair.

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