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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.

Dagny is based upon the life of Norwegian female artist Dagny Juel (1867-1901). She was a writer and cultural worker as well as musician frequenting with some of the greatest artist in Berlin in the late 1800's.

As depicted in this film, she was a youthhood friend of fellow Norwegian and painter Edward Munch, which welcome her to Berlin were she went in 1892 to take piano lessons. There she met up with the likes of Swedish writer August Stindberg and polish writer Stanislaw Przybyszewski, in which she married.

To tell more about her life will spoil, so I won't. But Lise Fjeldstad does an outstanding role here as Dagny, where she litterary is in almost every frame of the movie.

The fil is directedby Norwegian Haakon Sandøy, with script written by Polish Aleksander Scibor-Rylski, as a Polish-Norwegian co-production.

The film has a great setting, but sometimes I feel it's too theatrical in some inhouse scenes. This disturbs some of the experience, and makes me unable to land in the film as a whole.

This movie is made available in 2024 when it was released on interregional Blu-Ray Disk by Norwegian Film Classics as the forthysixth release in a new series with classics, NFK0046, with subtitles in English, and is supposed to be held in stock for film lovers.

A much forgotten film which was hailed by the critics? Yes, that's the fact about this seond feature film by Pål Løkkeberg with his wife Vibeke Løkkeberg in the main role, just as in his first film Liv (1967).

Maria is married with the business man Carl, and is working part time as a swimming teacher. She needs more excitement in life, but when she finds she is pregnant she decides against having the child. When she meets Danish Lou she gets on a wild rampage where they rob a post office.

It's quite baffling this is Pål Løkkeberg's last feature film, but he never got money to make his third, written togerther with acclaimed novelist Jens Bjørneboe.

I find the film interesting in more ways than one, and has a taste of French-ness, as well as a quite interesting plot and story. It unconventional as a Norwegian movie, and I find it refreshing.

In 2024 this movie was made available and released in HD for the first time. Released on interregional (region-free) Blu-Ray Disk by Norwegian Film Classics as the 42nd release in a new series with classics, NFK0042, with subtitles in English, and is supposed to be held in stock for film lovers.