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Børning
''Børning'' is a 2014 Norwegian action-comedy film directed by Hallvard Bræin, produced by Filmkameratene. Anders Baasmo Christiansen plays the main character Roy, a man who gets dragged into the biggest illegal car race in Norwegian history. The journey goes through Norway from Oslo to North Cape (Norway), the North Cape. Roy drives a 1967 Ford Mustang (first generation), Ford Mustang fastback with a 302 BOSS engine. The car is called 'Lillegul' (Norwegian for "little yellow"), named after his daughter who had jaundice as an infant. According to Norwegian media, the movie is a Norwegian Reboot (fiction), reboot of the American ''Fast & Furious'' film series. Two sequels, ''Børning 2'' and '':no:Børning 3, Børning 3 – Asphalt Burning'' were released in 2016 and in 2020 respectively. All through the action scenes, there are no signs of violence in the film, and it's therefore got no age restriction. The two sequels have an age restriction of 6 years. The movie premiered o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Børning 2
''Børning 2'' is a 2016 Norwegian action-comedy directed by Hallvard Bræin, and produced by Filmkameratene. It is the sequel to ''Børning'' (2014) that have taken inspiration from the American Fast & Furious, ''Fast & Furious'' film series. Anders Baasmo Christiansen plays the main character, Roy Gundersen, who gets out of prison for participating in the illegal street race to North Cape (Norway), Nordkapp. He is challenged to a new illegal winter race from Bergen to Murmansk in the north of Russia, but refuses, as he wants to focus on spending time with his daughter. But then he hears that his daughter is participating in the race together with her boyfriend. The movie premiered on the 12th of October 2016. The script was written by Linn-Jeanette Kyed and Anne Elvedal, following the story by Christopher Grøndahl. A sequel, ''Børning 3: Asphalt Burning'', was filmed in Norway, Sweden, Denmark, and Germany that ended with a race in the world known race track Nürburgring. P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jenny Skavlan
Jenny Ebbing Skavlan (born 3 June 1986) is a Norwegian model, actress, television presenter, and author. She started her career by appearing in a television commercial for Pizza Grandiosa in 2007. She has since appeared in such films as '' Fatso'', ''Dead Snow'', ''Børning'', and ''Tomme Tønner''. In 2008 Skavlan participated as a celebrity dancer on ''Skal vi danse?'' on Norway's TV2. In 2012 she wrote a book, ''Sy om'', about her passion for sewing. Life and career Skavlan grew up on the Bygdøy peninsula in the Frogner neighborhood in Oslo. Her father, Jørgen Skavlan, is a doctor and her mother is a costume designer and textile artist; she is the niece of the talk-show host Fredrik Skavlan. Skavlan studied at Fagerborg Upper Secondary School, where she played the lead role in the traditional Fagerborg revue show two years in a row. Skavlan later moved to Copenhagen, where she studied theatre at Borups Højskole. Skavlan made her film début at the age of eight as Alve ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jenny Skavlan
Jenny Ebbing Skavlan (born 3 June 1986) is a Norwegian model, actress, television presenter, and author. She started her career by appearing in a television commercial for Pizza Grandiosa in 2007. She has since appeared in such films as '' Fatso'', ''Dead Snow'', ''Børning'', and ''Tomme Tønner''. In 2008 Skavlan participated as a celebrity dancer on ''Skal vi danse?'' on Norway's TV2. In 2012 she wrote a book, ''Sy om'', about her passion for sewing. Life and career Skavlan grew up on the Bygdøy peninsula in the Frogner neighborhood in Oslo. Her father, Jørgen Skavlan, is a doctor and her mother is a costume designer and textile artist; she is the niece of the talk-show host Fredrik Skavlan. Skavlan studied at Fagerborg Upper Secondary School, where she played the lead role in the traditional Fagerborg revue show two years in a row. Skavlan later moved to Copenhagen, where she studied theatre at Borups Højskole. Skavlan made her film début at the age of eight as Alve ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sven Nordin
Sven Audun Nordin (born 6 February 1957 in Oslo) is a Norwegian actor. He was hired by Oslo Nye Teater in the autumn of 1981 and had his debut in the play "Vikinger" by Johan Borgen. He is best known for his roles as Nils in the situation comedy ''Mot i brøstet'' and Kjell Bjarne in the Academy Award–nominated film ''Elling''. Select filmography *1985: ''The Last Place on Earth'' as Trygve Gran *1985: ''Rød snø'' (TV series) *1987: ''Over grensen'' as Jensen, a witness *1987: '' På stigende kurs'' *1990: '' Smykketyven'' * 1993: ''Mot i brøstet'' (TV series) *1995: ''Pakten'' * 1999: ''Suffløsen'' *2001: ''Elling'' *2002: ''Ice Age'' (Norwegian dub) as Diego *2002: '' Shackleton'' (TV) *2002: ''I Am Dina'' *2003: '' Mamma, pappa, barn'' *2005: ''Deadline Torp'' (Tv series) *2005: '' An Enemy of the people'' *2005: '' Love Me Tomorrow'' *2005: ''Hos Martin'' (TV series) *2006: ''An Immortal Man'' as Knud Ibsen *2010: ''Shameless'' *2011: ''Sons of Norway'' *2012: ''Lilyham ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fast & Furious
''Fast & Furious'' (also known as ''The Fast and the Furious'') is a media franchise centered on a series of action films that are largely concerned with street racing, heists, spies, and family. The franchise also includes short films, a television series, live shows, toys, video games and theme park attractions. It is distributed by Universal Pictures. The first film was released in 2001, which began the original tetralogy of films focused on illegal street racing and culminated in the film ''Fast & Furious'' (2009). The series transitioned towards heists and spying with ''Fast Five'' (2011) and was followed by five sequels, with the most recent, ''Fast X'', set for release in May 2023. The main films are collectively known as ''The Fast Saga''. Universal expanded the series to include the spin-off film '' Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw'' (2019), while its subsidiary DreamWorks Animation followed this with the animated streaming television series '' Fast & Furiou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
North Cape (Norway)
North Cape ( no, Nordkapp; sme, Davvenjárga) is a cape on the northern coast of the island of Magerøya in Northern Norway. The cape is in Nordkapp Municipality in Troms og Finnmark county, Norway. The European route E69 highway has its northern terminus at North Cape, which makes it the northernmost point in Europe that can be accessed by car and makes the E69 the northernmost public road in Europe. The plateau is a popular tourist attraction. The cape includes a with a large flat plateau on top, where visitors, weather permitting, can watch the midnight sun and views of the Barents Sea to the north. North Cape Hall, a visitor centre, was built in 1988 on the plateau. It includes a café, restaurant, post office, souvenir shop, a small museum, and video cinema. Geography The steep cliff of the North Cape is located at , about from the North Pole. Nordkapp is often inaccurately referred to as the northernmost point of Europe. However, the neighbouring Knivskjellodden Cape ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Norway
Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe, the mainland territory of which comprises the western and northernmost portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula. The remote Arctic island of Jan Mayen and the archipelago of Svalbard also form part of Norway. Bouvet Island, located in the Subantarctic, is a dependency of Norway; it also lays claims to the Antarctic territories of Peter I Island and Queen Maud Land. The capital and largest city in Norway is Oslo. Norway has a total area of and had a population of 5,425,270 in January 2022. The country shares a long eastern border with Sweden at a length of . It is bordered by Finland and Russia to the northeast and the Skagerrak strait to the south, on the other side of which are Denmark and the United Kingdom. Norway has an extensive coastline, facing the North Atlantic Ocean and the Barents Sea. The maritime influence dominates Norway's climate, with mild lowland temperatures on the se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sweden
Sweden, formally the Kingdom of Sweden,The United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names states that the country's formal name is the Kingdom of SwedenUNGEGN World Geographical Names, Sweden./ref> is a Nordic country located on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. It borders Norway to the west and north, Finland to the east, and is connected to Denmark in the southwest by a bridgetunnel across the Öresund. At , Sweden is the largest Nordic country, the third-largest country in the European Union, and the fifth-largest country in Europe. The capital and largest city is Stockholm. Sweden has a total population of 10.5 million, and a low population density of , with around 87% of Swedes residing in urban areas in the central and southern half of the country. Sweden has a nature dominated by forests and a large amount of lakes, including some of the largest in Europe. Many long rivers run from the Scandes range through the landscape, primarily ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nordkapp
), North Cape, Norway, other uses, North Cape (other) Nordkapp ( en, North Cape; sme, Davvinjárga or ; fkv, Kappa or ) is a municipality in Troms og Finnmark county, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the town of Honningsvåg, where most residents live. Other settlements in Nordkapp include the villages of Gjesvær, Kåfjord, Kamøyvær, Kjelvik, Nordvågen, Repvåg, Skarsvåg, and Valan. The municipality is the 127th largest by area out of the 356 municipalities in Norway. Nordkapp is the 228th most populous municipality in Norway with a population of 2,947. The municipality's population density is and its population has decreased by 8.7% over the previous 10-year period. Some 200,000 tourists visit Nordkapp annually during the two to three months of summer. The main tourist attractions are the North Cape and the nearby Knivskjellodden. The North Cape first became famous when the English explorer Richard Chancellor rounded it in 1553 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sinsen
Sinsen is a mixed residential and commercial area in Grünerløkka borough of Oslo, Norway. The westernmost part of Sinsen is part of the borough Nordre Aker. The Sinsen Interchange, located on the border between the boroughs of Nordre Aker, Grünerløkka and Bjerke, was the first roundabout in Norway. It has since developed into a multi-lever intersection, with both Ring 3, National Road 4 and the Sinsen Line of the Oslo Tramway routes around. "North of the Sinsen Interchange" is common expression in the Norwegian district debates, where inhabitants of Oslo are accused of being ignorant of the country north of the interchange. The expression cropped up in revues during the 1960s, and is probably due to that Sinsen then was the end point for the main road leading into Oslo from the north. The area is served by the Sinsen Line of the Oslo Tramway. The Oslo T-bane serves the neighborhood at Sinsen Station, while the Gjøvik Line serves the area at Grefsen Station. The name The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Drag Racing
Drag racing is a type of motor racing in which automobiles or motorcycles compete, usually two at a time, to be first to cross a set finish line. The race follows a short, straight course from a standing start over a measured distance, most commonly , with a shorter, distance becoming increasingly popular, as it has become the standard for Top Fuel dragsters and Funny Cars, where some major bracket races and other sanctioning bodies have adopted it as the standard. The is also popular in some circles. Electronic timing and speed sensing systems have been used to record race results since the 1960s. The history of automobiles and motorcycles being used for drag racing is nearly as long as the history of motorized vehicles themselves, and has taken the form of both illegal street racing and as a regulated motorsport. History Drag racing started in the 1940s. World War II veterans were prominently involved, and some early drag races were done at decommissioned aircraft b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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