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- DirectorAnders Elsrud HultgreenStarsAnders Elsrud HultgreenLeslie HornÅge KjølåsA description of the decay of mountains in connection to the end of cosmos. Man is described in a geological timescale; they are alien visitors.
- DirectorAnders Elsrud HultgreenStarsTorstein BjørklundIngar Helge GimleAt the beginning of a new aeon is a water polluted world years after a global fall. Where the legacy of what was, has been quenched and world understanding must take shape again. Surrounded by an endless hazy and drab, bleak desert we follow two survivors who eye each other with the same mutual depraved suspicion as they contemplate their inhospitable surroundings.
- DirectorErik LøchenStarsEspen SkjønbergPer Theodor HaugenKari RasmussenA meta-film about a film and the common man in our own political reality. A reality that is just scenes of a film without any cinematic development, but which might be plain reality tomorrow.
- DirectorErik LøchenStarsRolf SøderBente BørsumTor StokkeTwo men attracted to the same woman are attending a trip with her in the Mountains during the bird hunting season. A triangular love drama ending with tragedy. Or is it, really?
- DirectorArne SkouenStarsJack FjeldstadHenny MoanAlf MallandDuring World War II, nine members of the Norwegian Resistance are trapped by the Germans in a deadly ambush. Only one escapes, and a fierce hunt through the ice desert has begun.
- DirectorArne SkouenStarsToralv MaurstadHenny MoanAlf MallandWartime 1944. Oddmund stays at a remote cabin in the high mountains, about to lead 12 refugees out of the country. But he also awaits the most important person is his life, Ragnhild, which isn't coming.
- DirectorErik SkjoldbjærgStarsStellan SkarsgårdSverre Anker OusdalMaria MathiesenIn a Norwegian city with a 24-hour daylight cycle a Swedish murder investigator has been brought in on a special case. Sleep deprived, he makes a horrible mistake which is discovered by the killer he has been hunting.
- DirectorAndré ØvredalStarsOtto JespersenRobert StoltenbergKnut NærumA group of students investigates a series of mysterious bear killings, but learns that there are much more dangerous things going on. They start to follow a mysterious hunter, learning that he is actually a troll hunter.
- DirectorBredo GreveStarsEdith RogerUlrikke GreveBerit SchelderupAnarkistic fable where we follow the teaching of a modern witch, reconstructed by historical and anthropological knowledge, inspired by the books by Carlos Castaneda.
- DirectorBredo GreveStarsNils UtsiChristian VennerødSissel KlevenOn the background of a hunger strike to save a famous salmon river from being dammed up for electrical power development, the Sami Ole Raino believes in his own protests. He plans a sabotage.
- DirectorErik Smith MeyerStarsKingsford SiayorEirik Junge EliassenBjörn GranathAnna lives with her father Karl someplace in the outskirts of northern Norway. Karl killed his ex-wife and threw her newborn colored child into the sea when he discovered that she obviously had been unfaithful. Now Karl is being haunted by her ghost and is developing a serious drinking problem. Anna is looking for the love of her life, but there aren't many bachelors around - until they discovers another small family on the other side of the mountain. They meet a semi-alcoholized widow on Karl's age, her son Peder, and her black adopted son, Ante, that arrived from the sea on a piece of wood.
- DirectorBredo Greve
- DirectorBredo Greve"That Fancy Furcoat of Yours" is a Norwegian anti-fur movie made by Bredo Greve and Svein Krøvel back in 1977. Greve was hired to make the movie by the Swiss company "European Committee for the Protection of Seals and other fur Animals", and was shot guerilla-style at a fur-animal farm near Oslo. Despite its good reception, it has rarely been seen by the public.
- DirectorIvo CaprinoOnce upon a time there was a poor boy with a fiddle, enthusiastic courage, and with no worries whatever hit him. Oe day he went out in the world to make a living.
- DirectorIvo CaprinoStarsHarald Heide SteenAnniken KolstadEven RognlienA young man named Ashlad is getting out on a journey in which he attempts to win both the king's daughter and half the kingdom. But it shall be more difficult than he had imagined.
- DirectorIvo CaprinoStarsHarald Heide SteenRolf Just NilsenA Norwegian fairy-tale about a young man trying to find shelter for the night.
- DirectorIvo CaprinoStarsHarald Heide-Steen Jr.Claes GillHenki KolstadAn exuberant story about Askeladden, the hero of Norwegian traditional fairy tales, outwitting the good-natured troll.
- DirectorIvo CaprinoStarsWenche FossPer Theodor HaugenHarald Heide-Steen Jr.Reodor Felgen decides that he will enter a car race to defeat his former friend who has stolen his plans for a car.
- DirectorGunnar SommerfeldtStarsAmund RydlandKaren PoulsenRagna WettergreenAfter the Nobel prize winning Knut Hamsun-novel, with it's criticism of industrialization, urbanizing and loss of values. The farmer Isak makes a farm out of barren soil, together with Inger and their two sons. She kills the third.
- DirectorHenning CarlsenStarsPer OscarssonGunnel LindblomBirgitte FederspielIn 1890, Pontus, the starving writer, wanders the streets of Christiania, in search of love and a chance to get his work published. All he meets is defeat and suffering while his sense of reality is withering. One moment his is delighted and the next he curses everybody. All the time he manages to maintain human dignity and pride.
- DirectorTancred IbsenStarsAlfred MaurstadVibeke FalkJoachim Holst-JensenIn the poor Norway in the early 1800s Gjest Baardsen starts off like a Robin Hood, stealing from the rich, giving to the poor. Based on the real character which became the poor mans hero, and got lots of help to get away from the law.
- DirectorWalter FyrstStarsTryggve LarssenBengt DjurbergJulie LampeThe motherless moose calf acts like a cow, and the strange animal is the start of a lot of stories. Hunter's aren't interesting in hunting him down, except one. He has decided to do it in, the troll-moose.
- DirectorHarald SchwenzenStarsHjalmar FriesHans BilleGerd Egede-NissenLieutenant Thomas Glahn, a hunter and ex-military man, lives alone in a forest hut with his faithful dog. Meeting Edvarda, the daughter of a merchant, they feel strongly attracted to each other, but neither understands the other's love.
- DirectorHugo HermansenStarsAlma LundHenry HagerupA story about how dangerous the life of a fisherman is. The film is believed to be lost. The oldest known Norwegian movie.