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Death Is A Caress
''Death is a Caress'' ( no, Døden er et kjærtegn) is a 1949 Norwegian film noir starring Claus Wiese, Bjørg Riiser-Larsen and Ingolf Rogde. Based on a 1948 novel by Arve Moen, it was Edith Carlmar Edith Carlmar (born Edith Mary Johanne Mathiesen) (15 November 1911 – 17 May 2003) was a Norwegian actress and Norway's first female film director. She is known for films such as ''Aldri annet enn bråk'' (1954), ''Fjols til fjells'' (1957), an ...'s directorial début, and the first Norwegian film directed by a woman. The film depicts the passionate and tempestuous liaison between mechanic Erik (Wiese) and society woman Sonja (Riiser-Larsen). The film uses cinematic shorthand to convey time and place, while concentrating on its protagonists' increasingly troubled relationship. References External links * * 1949 films 1949 drama films Film noir Films directed by Edith Carlmar Norwegian drama films 1940s Norwegian-language films Norwegian black-and-white films ...
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Edith Carlmar
Edith Carlmar (born Edith Mary Johanne Mathiesen) (15 November 1911 – 17 May 2003) was a Norwegian actress and Norway's first female film director. She is known for films such as ''Aldri annet enn bråk'' (1954), ''Fjols til fjells'' (1957), and '' Ung flukt'' (''The Wayward Girl'', 1959). Her 1949 film, ''Døden er et kjærtegn'' (''Death is a Caress''), is considered to be Norway's first film noir. The last film she directed, '' Ung flukt'', introduced Liv Ullmann, Norway's most famous actor internationally, to the silver screen. Carlmar came from a poor family in the working class districts of East Oslo. However, she did manage to take dancing classes and made her debut on stage at the age of 15. In the theater she met Otto Carlmar whom she married three years later. From 1936 she worked as an actress in various theatres. Here she met the film director Tancred Ibsen who introduced her to the world of cinema. In 1949 she and her husband started Carlmar Film A/S, and began ...
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Otto Carlmar
OttoCarlmar. Otto Carlmar (14 August 1902  – 20 May 1987) was a Norwegian film producer, writer and actor, most active during the 1950s. He began as a stage director and writer, and co-founded Carlmar Film in 1949 with his wife, film director Edith Carlmar. He produced and wrote nine feature films directed by his wife. From 1963 to 1965 he was the president of Norsk Film.''Historical Dictionary of Scandinavian Cinema'' (Scarecrow Press, 2012), , pp. 93-94Excerpts availableat Google Books Google Books (previously known as Google Book Search, Google Print, and by its code-name Project Ocean) is a service from Google Inc. that searches the full text of books and magazines that Google has scanned, converted to text using optical c .... References External links * 1902 births 1987 deaths Norwegian film producers Norwegian male film actors 20th-century Norwegian male actors {{film-producer-stub ...
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Arve Moen
The Arve (french: L'Arve, ) is a river in France (''département'' of Haute-Savoie), and Switzerland (canton of Geneva). A left tributary of the Rhône, it is long, of which 9 km in Switzerland. Its catchment area is , of which 80 km2 in Switzerland. Its average discharge in Geneva is . Rising in the northern side of the Mont Blanc massif in the Alps, close to the Swiss border, it receives water from the many glaciers of the Chamonix valley (mainly the Mer de Glace) before flowing north-west into the Rhône on the west side of Geneva, where its much higher level of silt brings forth a striking contrast between the two rivers. The Arve flows through Chamonix, Sallanches, Oëx, Cluses, Bonneville, Annemasse and Geneva. Tributaries include, from source to mouth: Arveyron, Diosaz, Bon-Nant, Sallanche, Giffre, Borne, Menoge, Foron, Seymaz and Aire. Gallery Image:Rhône and Arve Junction.jpg, The Arve (right) meets the Rhône in Geneva Geneva ( ; french: Genève ...
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Claus Wiese
Claus Wiese (March 1, 1924 – September 7, 1987) was a Norwegian actor and American-based radio broadcaster. Wiese was born in Lillestrøm. He graduated from the Oslo Cathedral School in 1944 and worked as an actor with the Oslo New Theater from 1945 to 1951. Wiese debuted in the film ''Englandsfarere'' in 1946. He married an American, Joan Ann Trapp, on August 12, 1950. Wiese worked as a film editor at the TV station WNAC in Boston, Massachusetts from 1952 to 1954, was head of programming at WMTW in Poland Spring, Maine from 1954 to 1975 and business director at the same station from 1975 to 1982, and became the station manager at WMTV in Auburn, Maine in 1982. In 1961, he and his wife moved to Bethel, Maine, where they owned and operated the Norseman Inn for 25 years. Claus Wiese was the brother of the author and former administrative director at J.W. Cappelens Forlag Jan Wiese. He was the uncle of the television talk show host Claus Wiese. Filmography * 1946: ''Englandsf ...
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Bjørg Riiser-Larsen
Bjørg Riiser-Larsen (September 28, 1916 – August 13, 2000) was a Norwegian actress. Riiser-Larsen appeared in several Norwegian films, and in 2006 the magazine '' Rushprint'' named her the greatest Norwegian film diva of all time. On the ''Rushprint'' website, the writer Kjell Ola Dahl describes Riiser-Larsen as a "film noir diva" and "femme fatale." Her starring role in the film ''Døden er et kjærtegn'' was a strong contributor to this assessment. Filmography * 1940: ''Bastard'' as the daughter of an Oroch chieftain * 1941: '' Hansen og Hansen'' as a girlfriend * 1942: '' Den farlige leken'' as Bjørg, a guest * 1943: '' Vigdis'' as Gerda Storm, Falck's fiancée * 1949: ''Døden er et kjærtegn'' as Sonja Rentoft References External links * Bjørg Riiser-Larsenat the Swedish Film Database The Swedish Film Database ( sv, Svensk filmdatabas) is an Internet database about Swedish films, published by the Swedish Film Institute The Swedish Film Institute ( sv, Svensk ...
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Ingolf Rogde
Ingolf Rogde (14 May 1911 – 4 June 1978) was a Norwegian actor. He was born in Sande, Møre og Romsdal, and was married to actress Siri Rom. He was mainly known for his long-term period with the touring theatre Riksteatret. Rogde made his stage debut at Trøndelag Teater in 1937, and was later assigned with Det Nye Teater, Det Norske Teatret, Riksteatret and Rogaland Teater. He also worked for Radioteatret. Among his films are ''Rikard Nordraak'' (1945) and ''Ugler i mosen ''Ugler i mosen'' is a 1959 Norwegian mystery and adventure family film directed by Ivo Caprino. The title, which literally means 'Owls in the Moss', is based on the idiom ''det er ugler i mosen'' 'I smell a rat; there is mischief afoot'. The film ...'' (1959). He was decorated Knight, First Class of the Order of St. Olav in 1969. References External links * 1911 births 1978 deaths People from Sande, Møre og Romsdal Norwegian male stage actors Norwegian male film actors 20th-century Norw ...
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Brita Bigum
Brita Bigum (a.k.a. Britta Bigum and Brita Bigum Grønn, January 15, 1921 – October 12, 1980) was a Norwegian actress. Career Bigum made her stage debut as a child in the play ''Per og Kari reiser til månen'' at the National Theatre in Oslo. She later danced at Chat Noir and the Edderkoppen Theater. Bigum made her film debut in 1940 in Tancred Ibsen's '' Tørres Snørtevold'' and appeared in a total of eight films between 1940 and 1957. She appeared as Hannchen ( no, Hanna) in Eduard Künneke's operetta '' The Cousin from Nowhere'' (Norwegian title: ''Fetteren fra Batavia'') at the Norwegian National Opera and Ballet during the 1951/52 season, and she was also active at the New Theater in 1953. Filmography *1940: '' Tørres Snørtevold'' as the third sales clerk *1946: ''Et spøkelse forelsker seg'' as Grynet *1949: ''Vi flyr på Rio'' as the English-speaking cabaret singer *1950: ''Døden er et kjærtegn'' as Brita *1951: ''Kranes konditori'' as Mrs. Berg *1951: ''Skadesku ...
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Film Noir
Film noir (; ) is a cinematic term used primarily to describe stylish Hollywood crime dramas, particularly those that emphasize cynical attitudes and motivations. The 1940s and 1950s are generally regarded as the "classic period" of American ''film noir''. Film noir of this era is associated with a low-key, black-and-white visual style that has roots in German Expressionist cinematography. Many of the prototypical stories and much of the attitude of classic noir derive from the hardboiled school of crime fiction that emerged in the United States during the Great Depression. The term ''film noir'', French for 'black film' (literal) or 'dark film' (closer meaning), was first applied to Hollywood films by French critic Nino Frank in 1946, but was unrecognized by most American film industry professionals of that era. Frank is believed to have been inspired by the French literary publishing imprint Série noire, founded in 1945. Cinema historians and critics defined the category ...
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Sight & Sound
''Sight and Sound'' (also spelled ''Sight & Sound'') is a British monthly film magazine published by the British Film Institute (BFI). It conducts the well-known, once-a-decade ''Sight and Sound'' Poll of the Greatest Films of All Time, ongoing since 1952. History and content ''Sight and Sound'' was first published in Spring 1932 as "A quarterly review of modern aids to learning published under the auspices of the British Institute of Adult Education". In 1934 management of the magazine was handed to the nascent British Film Institute (BFI), which still publishes the magazine today. ''Sight and Sound'' was published quarterly for most of its history until the early 1990s, apart from a brief run as a monthly publication in the early 1950s, but in 1991 it merged with another BFI publication, the ''Monthly Film Bulletin'', and started to appear monthly. In 1949, Gavin Lambert, co-founder of film journal ''Sequence'', was hired as the editor, and also brought with him ''Sequence ...
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1949 Films
The year 1949 in film involved some significant events. Top-grossing films (U.S.) The top ten 1949 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows: Events *April 26–June 21 – Ealing comedies ''Passport to Pimlico'', '' Whisky Galore!'' and ''Kind Hearts and Coronets'' are released in the UK, leading to 1949 being remembered as one of the peak years of the Ealing comedies. *November 15 – Following the prior year's Supreme Court decision in ''United States v. Paramount Pictures, Inc.'', Paramount Pictures is split into two separate companies with the creation of Paramount Pictures Corporation for production-distribution and United Paramount Theaters for the theater operations. *December 21 – Cecil B. DeMille's ''Samson and Delilah'', starring Hedy Lamarr, Victor Mature, George Sanders, Angela Lansbury, and Henry Wilcoxon, receives its televised world premiere at the Paramount and Rivoli theatres in New York City. The film opens in Los Angeles on Janu ...
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1949 Drama Films
Events January * January 1 – A United Nations-sponsored ceasefire brings an end to the Indo-Pakistani War of 1947. The war results in a stalemate and the division of Kashmir, which still continues as of 2022. * January 2 – Luis Muñoz Marín becomes the first democratically elected Governor of Puerto Rico. * January 11 – The first "networked" television broadcasts take place, as KDKA-TV in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania goes on the air, connecting east coast and mid-west programming in the United States. * January 16 – Şemsettin Günaltay forms the new government of Turkey. It is the 18th government, last single party government of the Republican People's Party. * January 17 – The first VW Type 1 to arrive in the United States, a 1948 model, is brought to New York by Dutch businessman Ben Pon. Unable to interest dealers or importers in the Volkswagen, Pon sells the sample car to pay his travel expenses. Only two 1949 models are sold in America tha ...
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Film Noir
Film noir (; ) is a cinematic term used primarily to describe stylish Hollywood crime dramas, particularly those that emphasize cynical attitudes and motivations. The 1940s and 1950s are generally regarded as the "classic period" of American ''film noir''. Film noir of this era is associated with a low-key, black-and-white visual style that has roots in German Expressionist cinematography. Many of the prototypical stories and much of the attitude of classic noir derive from the hardboiled school of crime fiction that emerged in the United States during the Great Depression. The term ''film noir'', French for 'black film' (literal) or 'dark film' (closer meaning), was first applied to Hollywood films by French critic Nino Frank in 1946, but was unrecognized by most American film industry professionals of that era. Frank is believed to have been inspired by the French literary publishing imprint Série noire, founded in 1945. Cinema historians and critics defined the category ...
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