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Thomas Robsahm
Thomas Robsahm (born 29 April 1964) is a Norwegian film producer and director. Personal life Born in Arendal on 29 April 1964, Robsahm is the son of actors Ugo Tognazzi and Margarete Robsahm, and is married to screenwriter and actress Silje Holtet. Career Robsahm has produced a large number of documentaries and short films. Films he has directed include the crime drama '' Svarte pantere'' (1992), and ''Myggen'' (1996), a documentary about Norwegian footballer Erik Mykland. His 1999 comedy '' S.O.S.'' was awarded the Amanda Award for best Norwegian film. In 2009 he produced ''Angel'', directed by Margreth Olin. He produced three films directed by Joachim Trier; ''Louder Than Bombs'' in 2015, '' Thelma'' in 2017, and '' The Worst Person in the World'' in 2021. He was awarded the Nordic Council Film Prize in 2016 for ''Louder than bombs'', along with director Joachim Trier and scriptwriter Eskil Vogt Eskil Vogt (born 31 October 1974) is a Norwegian film director and scree ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arendal
Arendal () is a List of municipalities of Norway, municipality in Agder counties of Norway, county in southeastern Norway. Arendal belongs to the Districts of Norway, region of Southern Norway, Sørlandet. The administrative centre of the municipality is the Arendal (town), city of Arendal (which is also the seat of Agder county). Some of the notable villages in Arendal include Rykene, Eydehavn, Færvik, Strengereid, Kongshavn, Kilsund, Brattekleiv, Torsbudalen, Longum, Aust-Agder, Longum, Saltrød, Staubø, Vrengen, Aust-Agder, Vrengen, and Kolbjørnsvik. The offices of UNEP/GRID-Arendal are also located in the city of Arendal. The municipality is the 273rd largest by area out of the 356 municipalities in Norway. Arendal is the 23rd most populous municipality in Norway with a population of 45,509. The municipality's population density is and its population has increased by 6.3% over the previous 10-year period. General information Municipal history The town of Arendal was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Angel (2009 Film)
''Angel'' ( no, Engelen) is a 2009 Norwegian drama film directed by Margreth Olin. The film was selected as the Norwegian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 83rd Academy Awards but it didn't make the final shortlist. Cast * Maria Bonnevie * Börje Ahlstedt * Antti Reini * Lena Endre * Gunilla Röör * Benjamin Helstad See also * List of submissions to the 83rd Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film * List of Norwegian submissions for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film The Kingdom of Norway has submitted films in the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film category at the Oscars since 1957. They only submitted two films in their first twenty years, but they became a regular fixture in the competition ... References External links * 2009 films 2000s Norwegian-language films Films directed by Margreth Olin 2009 drama films Norwegian drama films 2009 directorial debut films {{Norway-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Norwegian Film Directors
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Living People
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1964 Births
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Eskil Vogt
Eskil Vogt (born 31 October 1974) is a Norwegian film director and screenwriter. His films include ''Reprise'' (2006), ''Oslo, August 31st'' (2011), ''Louder Than Bombs'' (2015), and ''Thelma'' (2017) all of which were directed by Joachim Trier from scripts written by Vogt and Trier. He also wrote and directed the drama film '' Blind'', which was screened at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival and received the ''World Cinema Screenwriting Award''. The film was awarded the ''Europa Cinemas Label'' at the 64th Berlin International Film Festival. In 2021, Vogt had two films at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival. '' The Innocents'' competed in the ''Un Certain Regard'' category while '' The Worst Person in the World'' competed for the Palme d'Or. For his work on the latter, Vogt was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay at the 94th Academy Awards The 94th Academy Awards ceremony, presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), took place on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Worst Person In The World (film)
''The Worst Person in the World'' ( no, Verdens verste menneske) is a 2021 Romance film, romantic comedy-drama film directed by Joachim Trier. It is the third film in the director's "Oslo Trilogy", following ''Reprise (film), Reprise'' (2006) and ''Oslo, August 31st'' (2011). The film premiered in competition at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival to widespread critical acclaim, with Renate Reinsve winning the award for Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress, Best Actress for her performance in the film. At the 94th Academy Awards, the film was nominated for Academy Award for Best International Feature Film, Best International Feature Film and Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay, Best Original Screenplay. The score for the film was written by Ola Fløttum. Plot Julie is a medical student in Oslo who transfers to psychology and then photography. In her late 20s, she starts a relationship with Aksel Willman, a comic artist 15 years older than her. Now dabbling in writing, she ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thelma (2017 Film)
''Thelma'' is a 2017 Norway, Norwegian supernatural Thriller film, thriller Drama (film and television), drama film directed by Joachim Trier. The screenplay was written by Trier and Eskil Vogt. The film stars Eili Harboe, Kaya Wilkins, Henrik Rafaelsen, and Ellen Dorrit Petersen. ''Thelma'' tells the story of a sheltered young woman who discovers she has an inexplicable power that materializes when she feels desire for a female student at her university. ''Thelma'' was selected as the Norwegian entry for the Academy Awards, Oscar as Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, Best Foreign Language Film at the 90th Academy Awards, but did not receive the List of submissions to the 90th Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film, nomination. Plot Thelma is a lonely and repressed young woman from an ultra-religious Christian family who has lived a sheltered life under the protection of her father, Trond, and disabled mother, Unni. She struggles to make friends and soon afte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louder Than Bombs (film)
''Louder Than Bombs'' is a 2015 drama film directed by Joachim Trier and starring Jesse Eisenberg, Gabriel Byrne, Isabelle Huppert, David Strathairn, and Amy Ryan. The film was internationally co-produced and was co-written by Trier and Eskil Vogt. Louder Than Bombs was Trier's first English-language film. It was selected to compete for the Palme d'Or at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival, and was shown in the Special Presentations section of the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival. It won the Nordic Council Film Prize. Plot Several years before the events of the film, Isabelle Reed (Isabelle Huppert), a conflict photographer, died in a car crash. In the present, a retrospective of her work and an article about her life and death is being released, putting her widower, Gene (Gabriel Byrne), in a crisis as his younger son, Conrad, who was twelve at the time of Isabelle's death, has no idea that she died by suicide. Conrad meanwhile is angry, aggressive and seemingly suicidal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joachim Trier
Joachim Trier () (born 1 March 1974) is a Danish-born Norwegian film director, best known for ''Oslo, August 31st'' (2011), ''Louder Than Bombs'' (2015), ''Thelma'' (2017), and '' The Worst Person in the World'' (2021). For the latter film, he was nominated for the Best Original Screenplay at the 94th Academy Awards, with the film also being nominated for Best International Feature. His films have been described as "melancholy meditations concerned with existential questions of love, ambition, memory, and identity." Early life Trier was born in Denmark to Norwegian parents and raised in Oslo, Norway. His father, Jacob Trier, was the sound technician of ''The Pinchcliffe Grand Prix'', a notable film produced in Norway in 1975. His grandfather was Erik Løchen, artistic director of Norsk Film from 1981 to 1983 and also a filmmaker and screenwriter known for such experimental work as his 1972 film ''Remonstrance'' which was uniquely constructed so that its five reels could be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margreth Olin
Margreth Olin Mykløen (often referred to as Margreth Olin, born April 16, 1970, in Stranda) is a Norwegian film director, screenwriter, and film producer. She is educated at the University of Bergen and Volda University College. She is best known for her documentaries, in which she highlights the weak in society. She has received many national and international awards for her work. Biography Olin made her directorial debut with the school production ''In the House of Love'' (1995). In 1998 her first full-length documentary ''In the House of Angels'' was released theatrically in Norway. It later received many awards, among them the Amanda for the best documentary. Her breakthrough came with the film ''My body'' which also won the Amanda. It won The Golden Chair and the Audience award at the Norwegian shortfilmfestival in Grimstad. ''My body'' created a big debate in the media. It won awards abroad where it participated at numerous festivals. Among them it was nominated and given ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Store Norske Leksikon
The ''Great Norwegian Encyclopedia'' ( no, Store Norske Leksikon, abbreviated ''SNL''), is a Norwegian-language online encyclopedia. The online encyclopedia is among the most-read Norwegian published sites, with more than two million unique visitors per month. Paper editions 1978–2007 The ''SNL'' was created in 1978, when the two publishing houses Aschehoug and Gyldendal merged their encyclopedias and created the company Kunnskapsforlaget. Up until 1978 the two publishing houses of Aschehoug and Gyldendal, Norway's two largest, had published ' and ', respectively. The respective first editions were published in 1907–1913 (Aschehoug) and 1933–1934 (Gyldendal). The slump in sales for paper-based encyclopedias around the turn of the 21st century hit Kunnskapsforlaget hard, but a fourth edition of the paper encyclopedia was secured by a grant of ten million Norwegian kroner from the foundation Fritt Ord in 2003. The fourth edition consisted of 16 volumes, a t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
