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Bjørn Floberg
Bjørn Floberg (born 12 September 1947) is a Norwegian actor of film, television and theatre. He is particularly noted for playing unsympathetic authority figures, but he has also had success playing other types of roles. Career Theatre Floberg joined Det Norske Teatret (The Norwegian Theatre) in 1972, appearing in such plays as ''The Caretaker'', ''When You Comin' Back, Red Ryder?'', '' Long Day's Journey into Night'', and ''Saint Joan of the Stockyards''. Particularly notable roles include Molière in Mikhail Bulgakov's ''The Cabal of Hypocrites'', the title role in ''Volpone'', and Jean in ''Miss Julie''. In recent years he has played various roles at Nationaltheatret, including Devlin in '' Ashes to Ashes'' and Professor Kroll in ''Rosmersholm''. Floberg is particularly fond of Harold Pinter. In an interview with ''Aftenposten'', he said: " inter'stexts are like butter in my mouth", and added that Pinter's plays are distinguished by "character disintegration". On different ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tønsberg
Tønsberg , historically Tunsberg, is a city and municipality in Vestfold og Telemark county, eastern Norway, located around south-southwest of Oslo on the western coast of the Oslofjord near its mouth onto the Skagerrak. The administrative centre of the municipality is the city of Tønsberg. The city is the most populous metropolis in the district of Vestfold with a population of 52,419 in 2019. The municipality has a population of 56,293 and covers an area of in 2020. Tønsberg also serves as the seat for the County Governor of Vestfold og Telemark. Tønsberg is generally regarded as the oldest city in Norway, founded by Vikings in the 9th century. Tønsberg was established as a municipality on 1 January 1838 (see formannskapsdistrikt). The rural municipality of Sem was merged into the municipality of Tønsberg on 1 January 1988. The neighboring municipality of Re was merged into Tønsberg on 1 January 2020. It is home to Tønsberg Fortress on Castle Mountain, which incl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rosmersholm
''Rosmersholm'' () is a play written by Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen in Danish—the common written language of Denmark and Norway at the time—and originally published in 1886 in Copenhagen by the Danish publisher Gyldendal. ''Rosmersholm'' has been described as one of Ibsen's darkest, most complex, subtle, beautiful, mystical, multilayered and ambiguous plays. The play explores the tension between old and new, and between liberation and servitude. ''Rosmersholm'' and '' The Wild Duck'' are "often to be observed in the critics' estimates vying with each other as rivals for the top place among Ibsen's works." McFarlane, James (1999). "Introduction". In: Ibsen, Henrik, ''An Enemy of the People; The Wild Duck; Rosmersholm''. Oxford World Classics. Oxford, England: Oxford University Press. p. ix. , . Characters *Johannes Rosmer, a former clergyman and owner of Rosmersholm, a manor *Rebecca West, a resident at Rosmersholm *Professor Kroll, Rosmer's brother-in-law *Ulrik Brendel, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Geir Børresen
Geir Børresen (16 November 1942 – 25 July 2022) was a Norwegian actor and entertainer. Biography Børresen was born in Oslo on 16 November 1942. He made his film debut in '' Liv'' in 1967, and made his stage debut at Nationaltheatret in 1968. He was a presenter on ''Lekestue'', based on BBC's ''Play School'', for NRK from 1975–1981. He played the characters "Labbetuss" and "Max Mekker" in the television series '' Sesam Stasjon'' (a Norwegian spin-off of ''Sesame Street'') in the 1990s. He provided the voice of Trigger in the Norwegian dub of ''Robin Hood (1973 film)''. He is known for songs based on the comics series ''The Smurfs'', and his albums ''I Smurfeland'' (1978), '' Sommer i Smurfeland'' (1979) and ''Alle gode ting er Smurf'' (1979) sold a total of nearly 400,000 copies. Børresen died in Bærum Bærum () is a municipality in the Greater Oslo Region in Norway that forms an affluent suburb of Oslo on the west coast of the city. Bærum is Norway's fifth l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frøydis Armand
Frøydis Armand (9 April 1949 – 11 October 2022) was a Norwegian actress. She was the daughter of actor Eilif Armand, and sister of Merete Armand and Gisken Armand, both actresses. She worked at Nationaltheatret (the National Theatre) from 1972 onward, acting in plays such as Henrik Ibsen's ''Little Eyolf'', and Shakespeares '' Othello''. Though primarily a stage actress, Armand was probably best known to the general audience as one of the three protagonists in Anja Breien's ''Hustruer''–trilogy: ''Hustruer'' (1975), ''Hustruer – ti år etter'' (1985) and ''Hustruer III'' (1996). Armand had a child from a marriage to actor Helge Jordal, and another child from a relationship with actor Kai Remlow. She died on 10 October 2022, at the age of 73. Select filmography * 1974: ''Mors hus'' * 1975: ''Hustruer'' * 1980: ''Nedtur'' * 1985: '' Hustruer - ti år etter'' * 1989: ''Bryllupsfesten'' * 1996: ''Hustruer III'' * 1999: ''Sejer - se deg ikke tilbake'' (TV) * 2000: ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carsten Byhring
Carsten Byhring (8 December 1918 – 5 April 1990) was a Norwegian actor. He is probably best known for playing Kjell in the Olsen Gang movies. He is the brother of actor Svein Byhring. He died from cancer in Oslo at the age of 71, in 1990. Selected filmography * 1949: ''Svendsen går videre'' * 1955: ''Hjem går vi ikke'' * 1956: '' Bjørnepatruljen'' * 1959: '' The Chasers'' * 1963: ''Freske fraspark ''Freske fraspark'' (Fresh Push-Offs) is a Norwegian comedy film from 1963 directed by Bjørn Breigutu. The script was written by Kjell Aukrust and Breigutu. The story was previously arranged for stage for the Norwegian Theater in Oslo as the pl ...'' * 1966: '' Før frostnettene'' * 1966: '' Hurra for Andersens!'' * 1968: '' Sus og dus på by'n'' * 1970: '' Skulle det dukke opp flere lik er det bare å ringe'' * 1972: '' Lukket avdeling'' * 1974: '' Bobby's War'' Reference External links * 1918 births 1990 deaths Norwegian male film actors Deaths from cancer in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lars Andreas Larssen
Lars Andreas Larssen (27 March 1935 – 29 January 2014) was a Norwegian stage, film and television actor.Skuespilleren Lars Andreas Larssen er død side2.no. Career Larssen was born in the village of , near in . His debut came in 1957, playing a minor role in the blockbuster '' Nine Lives''. He had a larger role in the 1959 film ' ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sossen Krohg
Sossen Krohg (born Sossen Anker Olsen; 18 December 1923 – 12 February 2016) was a Norwegian playwright and stage and film actress. Personal life She was born in Kristiania (now Oslo), Norway. She was the daughter of newspaper editor Kristoffer Anker Olsen and Ingeborg Cappelen Hille Finne. She was married to ski jumper Thorleif Schjelderup (1920–2006) from 1943 to 1947 and to painter Guy Krohg (1917–2002) from 1949. Career Sossen Krohg graduated from the Det Norske Teatret school of theater in 1946 and made her stage debut in the play ''Kranes konditori'' which was based on the novel from 1945 by Norwegian author Cora Sandel (1880–1974). She was appointed at Det Norske Teatret from 1948 to 1952, and at Folketeatret from 1952 to 1960. She made her film debut in ''Døden er et kjærtegn'' from 1949 directed by Edith Carlmar (1911–2003). Sossen Krohg lived and worked in Paris for several periods of his life, introducing in the 1960s. She established the stage '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Knut Faldbakken
Knut Faldbakken (born 31 August 1941, in Hamar) is a Norwegian novelist. He studied psychology at Oslo University, and then worked as a journalist. Faldbakken visited a number of countries, working variously as a bookkeeper, sailor, and factory worker, and began writing books in 1967 while living in Paris. He was editor of the literary magazine ''Vinduet'' (''The Window'') between 1975 and 1979. His sons Stefan Faldbakken and Matias Faldbakken Matias Faldbakken (born 1973 in Hobro, Denmark) is a Norwegian artist and writer. Faldbakken studied at the National Academy of Fine Arts in Bergen and the Städelschule in Frankfurt am Main. He is the son of the author Knut Faldbakken, father of ... have achieved recognition as a film director and a novelist respectively. His books have been published in 21 countries, translated to 18 languages and have sold two million copies worldwide. Selected bibliography * ''The Sleeping Prince'' (''Maude danser''), 1971 * '' Twilight Country ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Economic Crisis
An economy is an area of the production, distribution and trade, as well as consumption of goods and services. In general, it is defined as a social domain that emphasize the practices, discourses, and material expressions associated with the production, use, and management of scarce resources'. A given economy is a set of processes that involves its culture, values, education, technological evolution, history, social organization, political structure, legal systems, and natural resources as main factors. These factors give context, content, and set the conditions and parameters in which an economy functions. In other words, the economic domain is a social domain of interrelated human practices and transactions that does not stand alone. Economic agents can be individuals, businesses, organizations, or governments. Economic transactions occur when two groups or parties agree to the value or price of the transacted good or service, commonly expressed in a certain currency. Howe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Science Fiction
Science fiction (sometimes shortened to Sci-Fi or SF) is a genre of speculative fiction which typically deals with imaginative and futuristic concepts such as advanced science and technology, space exploration, time travel, parallel universes, extraterrestrial life, sentient artificial intelligence, cybernetics, certain forms of immortality (like mind uploading), and the singularity. Science fiction predicted several existing inventions, such as the atomic bomb, robots, and borazon, whose names entirely match their fictional predecessors. In addition, science fiction might serve as an outlet to facilitate future scientific and technological innovations. Science fiction can trace its roots to ancient mythology. It is also related to fantasy, horror, and superhero fiction and contains many subgenres. Its exact definition has long been disputed among authors, critics, scholars, and readers. Science fiction, in literature, film, television, and other media, has beco ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard II (play)
''The Life and Death of King Richard the Second'', commonly called ''Richard II'', is a history play by William Shakespeare believed to have been written around 1595. It is based on the life of King Richard II of England (ruled 1377–1399) and chronicles his downfall and the machinations of his nobles. It is the first part of a tetralogy, referred to by some scholars as the Henriad, followed by three plays about Richard's successors: ''Henry IV, Part 1''; '' Henry IV, Part 2''; and ''Henry V''. Although the First Folio (1623) includes the play among the histories, the earlier Quarto edition of 1597 calls it ''The tragedie of King Richard the second''. Characters * King Richard II * John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster – Richard's uncle * Duke of York – Richard's uncle * Duke of Aumerle – York's son * Thomas Mowbray, Duke of Norfolk * Queen – Richard's wife (an unnamed composite of his first wife, Anne of Bohemia, and his second, Isabella of Valois, who was still a chil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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