Known for Production
Born
July 21, 1949 (age 77)
Birthplace
Oslo, Norway
Filmography
25 films, 2 shows


Play
2003 · 1h 25m
country: Norway
A group of young people come together for an early summer weekend by the sea. They are drama school graduates and a tightly knit group about to be broken up. The last three years they have been together day and night. Now they are on the threshold of new lives as professionals - competing for the same parts.


The Greatest Thing
2001 · 1h 54m
country: Denmark
In the late 1860s, after becoming engaged to three bachelors in the town, Petra flees from an angry mob and seeks refuge in a rectory. Based on the Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson novel "Fiskerjænten".


Cool & Crazy
2001 · 1h 44m
country: Norway
Much as Buena Vista Social Club revealed a rich and unexplored world of music and culture, Cool & Crazy introduces us to a group of men who find purpose, companionship and even fame, as members of a male choir in Berlevåg.


Ballen i øyet
2000 · 1h 21m
country: Norway
While near sighted Denise plays football, she accidently gets a ball in her face, and her glasses break. When she wakes up in the hospital she's double sighted.


Aberdeen
2000 · 1h 53m
country: Norway
Kaisa is a Scot, a successful London lawyer, who snorts coke and has one-night stands with strangers. Her mother calls from Aberdeen with some story begging her to fly to Norway and collect her alcoholic dad whom she hasn't seen in years.


Tørst - Framtidens forbrytelser
1999 · 1h 32m
country: Norway
Anthology film based on three short stories by Knut Hamsun, updated to modern times.


Bloody Angels
1998 · 1h 40m
country: Norway
A few months after a girl with developmental disabilities is murdered in the remote village Høtten, the two young men who most townsfolk think killed her go missing. A police detective is sent to investigate and finds this very challenging.


Insomnia
1997 · 1h 36m
country: Norway
Detectives Jonas and Erik are called to the midnight sun country of northern Norway to investigate a recent homicide, but their plan to arrest the killer goes awry, and Jonas mistakenly shoots Erik. The suspect escapes, and a frightened Jonas pins Erik's death on the fugitive. Jonas continues to pursue the killer as he seeks to protect himself; however, his mounting guilt and the omnipresent sun plague him with an insomnia that affects his sanity.


1996: Pust på meg!
1997 · 1h 46m
country: Norway
On a day in April 1996, four stories play out in the confines of a flat in the heart of Oslo.