Movies: Sverre Hansen

In 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 he is delighted and the next ...

The daughter of a prominent medieval Norway landowner, Kristin grows up in total harmony with the ideals of the time: strong family ties, social pride and devout Christianity. As she accepts the fact that she has been arranged to marry the son of ano...

Askeladden (Norwegian "The Ash Lad") is the main character in many Norwegian folktales....

The Master and His Servants (Norwegian: Herren og hans tjenere) is a 1959 Norwegian drama film directed by Arne Skouen. The film is based on a 1955 play by Axel Kielland, who also plays a minor character in the film. The play and the film is based on...

The movie takes place during World War II and depicts the true story of Jan Baalsruds amazing escape from the German army from the coast of Northern Norway and across the border to the neutral country Sweden....

Based on a play by Dario Fo....

Struggling worker tries his luck in the stock market - with great success. But it doesn't last....

Fly-on-the-wall treatment of an ordinary day in the life of a prisoner in Stalin's Gulag. Closely adapted from Solzhenitsyn's classic novel based on his own experiences. Shot entirely on location in northern Norway...

Two police officers lie dead. The swede Ekstrøm and the youngster Gustav flees the scene of the crime. Based on a real double murder in 1926, this movie remained almost unseen for 57 years. When the film was set to premiere in 1950 one of the murder...

Ballad of the Masterthief Ole Hoiland (Norwegian: Balladen om mestertyven Ole Høiland) is a 1970 Norwegian drama film directed by Knut Andersen, and starring a broad cast of notable Norwegian actors, headed by Per Jansen as Ole Høiland. Ole Høiland w...

Two brothers in their seventies, Pa and Moe, have lived together all their lives in a little house in the country, the only interruption being when Pa made a weekend trip to Småland on his moped during the second World War. The past returns when his ...

The film is about suburban families, trying to be perfect housewives, and their theories in what is the right way of treating and accepting husbands and kids....

Stein Oscar Magel Paus-Andersen (ST.O.M.P.A.) starts at Langåsen boarding school in Stakavik, where he meets his new friends Bodø, Bergen, Nøtterø and Sørlandet. They find themselves tangled up in troubles with a spider, a fire drill and a swimming c...

Marion is born limp and with a scarred face. Georg is also limp after a car accident. it takes more than a man to go together....

Lavinia has left her husband before a cocktail party. They have both had relationships. A foreign guest, Sir Henry, analyzes their marriage and relationship. Will they find their way back to each other again?...

Viva Villa Road deals with a handful of neighbors who completely unaware manages to go to Gran Canaria at the same time. For many, this would be a nice, but for Swedish Reidar Frank (Brass Brännström), pensioner Sigurd Vatne (Sverre Hansen) and crazy...

Five young men are planning a crime of forcing a plane down to rob the passengers....

Film about a woman's struggle in a male-dominated society in the late 1800s. Amalie Skram was one of our first female writers who fought woman liberation cause. In a society that did not accept that a woman could have its own independent work, it was...

Based on a play by Henrik Ibsen (Norwegian)...

A princess falls in love with a man of the people, and their love must be a secret. But when someone takes a photo of them together, the scandal is a fact....