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Criterion collection volume 1132
Language
Norwegian
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Description
A young woman battles indecisiveness as she traverses the troubled waters of her love life and struggles to find her career path.
2) The 12th man
Language
Norwegian
Description
"An incredible true life story of heroism and a man's unbreakable will to live. Norway, 1943: after a failed anti-Nazi sabotage mission leaves his eleven comrades dead, Norwegian resistance fighter Jan Baalsrud finds himself on the run from the Gestapo through the snowbound Arctic reaches of Scandinavia. It's a harrowing journey across unforgiving frozen wilderness -- one that will stretch on for months and force Jan to take extreme action in order...
Language
Norwegian
Description
"After fifty years of prosperous offshore drilling along the Norwegian coastline, environmental consequences begin to manifest. A massive crack has opened on the ocean floor, causing a rig to collapse. A team of researchers and rescuers rush in to search for the missing and assess the cause of the damage, but what they discover is that this is just the start of a possible apocalyptic catastrophe the world has never seen"--Container.
Language
Norwegian
Description
The experienced geologist Kristian Eikfjord has accepted a job offer out of town. He is getting ready to move from the city of Geiranger with his family, when he and his colleagues measure small geological changes in the underground. Kristian gets worried and his worst nightmare is about to come true, when the alarm goes off and the disaster is inevitable. With less than 10 minutes to react, it becomes a race against time in order to save as many...
Language
Norwegian
Description
Anders will soon complete his drug rehabilitation in the countryside. As part of the program, he is allowed to go into the city for a job interview. But he takes advantage of the leave and stays in the city, drifting around, meeting people he hasn't seen in a long while. Anders is smart, handsome, and from a good family, but he is deeply haunted by all the opportunities he has wasted and all the people he has let down.
Language
Norwegian
Formats
Description
Since her father's death, the kind-hearted but also courageous Cinderella lives with her cruel stepmother and spoiled stepsister Dora who treat her like a servant in her own house. During one of her daily escapes to the forest, Cinderella prevents a couple of men from hunting wild animals, amongst them the handsome prince of the kingdom. They immediately feel attracted to each other, but he is expected to find a suitable bride at the next royal ball...
Series
Film Movement volume year 7, film 11
Language
Norwegian
Description
Jan, recently released from prison after serving time for the murder of a child, has always maintained his innocence and is ready to put the past behind him. A gifted organist, he takes a job at an Oslo church under his middle name, Thomas. His talent and gentle manner quickly earn him the respect of his superiors, as well as the love of the pastor, Anna, and her little boy, Jens. But his past catches up with him when Agnes, a local teacher, comes...
Language
Norwegian
Formats
Description
SONJA: THE WHITE SWAN tells the story of Sonja Henie, one of the world’s greatest athletes and the inventor of modern figure skating, who decides to go to Hollywood in 1936 to become a movie star. Her first film is a box office smash, selling the most tickets in the world in 1937. She becomes one of the richest women of her time, always surrounded by fans, lovers and family, and never has a moment alone. As she gets older the spotlight begins to...
11) The tunnel
Language
Norwegian
Formats
Description
When a truck crashes inside a tunnel, people on their way home for Christmas are brutally trapped in a deadly fire. With a blizzard raging outside, and the first responders struggling to get to the accident, it's every man for himself.
12) Insomnia
Series
Criterion collection volume 47
Language
Norwegian
Description
Stellan Skarsgård plays an enigmatic Swedish detective with a checkered past who arrives in a small town in northern Norway to investigate the death of a teenage girl. As he digs deeper into the heinous killing, his own demons and the tyrannical midnight sun begin to take a toll.
Language
Norwegian
Description
Based on the internationally acclaimed and best-selling novel by Lars Saabye Christensen, The Half Brother is an evocative family saga revolving around the life of un-produced screenwriter Barnum Nilsen. On V-Day, May 1945, as a continent emerges from war, Barnum's mother Vera is raped in her attic in Oslo by an unknown man, leading to the birth of Barnum's half brother, Fred. When Barnum is born five years later, to the man that Vera has since met...
16) Headhunters
Language
Norwegian
Description
Roger, an accomplished headhunter by day and art thief when opportunity knocks, decides to risk it all to get his hands on an extremely valuable painting, and in doing so discovers something which makes him a hunted man.
Author
Series
Exit volume 3
Language
Norwegian
Description
Hermine's therapist suggests Adam is emotionally abusive. Henrik runs into Hermine at the bar and tells her about Adam's vasectomy. Hermine does coke - and puts her hand on Henrik's crotch.
Author
Series
Aber Bergen volume 10
Language
Norwegian
Description
The shocking history of Elea's family is revealed.
Author
Series
Tainted volume 8
Language
Norwegian
Description
Nicolas desperately tries to get Sumera to admit where the drive is. Sumera tries to make an escape. Charlotte, Anila, and Ambar confront Nicolas. In the scuffle, Sumera gets captured again; she must fight for her life to escape once and for all.
Author
Series
Heavy Water War volume 3
Language
Norwegian
Description
The Americans insist on bombing the heavy water factory, but Tronstad persuades the Allies to send in a team of Norwegians instead. In Germany, Nobel Prize winner Werner Heisenberg promises a breakthrough in the development of a Nazi atomic bomb.
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