''Kamilla and the Thief'' (''Kamilla og Tyven'') is a Norwegian family movie from 1988 directed by

Grete Salomonsen Grete Salomonsen is a Norwegian director of family films. She is probably best known for directing'' Kamilla and the Thief ''Kamilla and the Thief'' (''Kamilla og Tyven'') is a Norwegian family movie from 1988 directed by Grete Salomonsen and ...

and produced by her husband

Odd Hynnekleiv Odd means unpaired, occasional, strange or unusual, or a person who is viewed as eccentric. Odd may also refer to: Acronym * ODD (Text Encoding Initiative) ("One Document Does it all"), an abstracted literate-programming format for describing X ...

. The movie is an adaption from a Norwegian children's novel by Kari Vinje, and is the first feature film of renowned Norwegian actor

Dennis Storhøi Jahn Dennis Storhøi (born July 15, 1960 in Fredrikstad, Norway) is a Norwegian actor. Biography He is an acclaimed theatre actor in Norway, having won several awards. However, he is known for his role as ''Herger the Joyous'' in John McTiernan' ...

and also stars 1980s pop idol

Morten Harket Morten Harket () (born September 14, 1959) is a Norwegian vocalist and songwriter, who is the lead singer of the synthpop/rock band A-ha. A-ha has released 10 studio albums to date, and topped the charts internationally after their breakthrough ...

in a minor role. ''Kamilla and the Thief'' was a huge success in Norway, selling half a million tickets (in a country of about 4 million people). It was so popular that a sequel was made,

Kamilla and the Thief II ''Kamilla and the Thief II'' (''Kamilla og Tyven II'') is a Norwegian family movie from 1989 directed by Grete Salomonsen and produced by her husband Odd Hynnekleiv. It is a sequel to ''Kamilla and the Thief'' and is a loose adaption of another n ...

, which was released the year after. In 2005 both movies were digitally restored and released on DVD.

Cast

* Veronika Flåt as Kamilla *

as Sebastian *

Agnete Haaland Agnete Gullestad Haaland (born 10 March 1960) is a Norwegian stage and film actress, organizational leader and theatre director. She was born in Bergen, and is a daughter of actress Anne Gullestad. From 2000 to 2011 she chaired the Norwegian Ac ...

as Sofie *

as Christoffer

Production

''Kamilla and the Thief'' was the first feature film to be produced in

Kristiansand Kristiansand is a seaside resort city and municipality in Agder county, Norway. The city is the fifth-largest and the municipality the sixth-largest in Norway, with a population of around 112,000 as of January 2020, following the incorporation ...

, and was financed privately, in a time when it was common (and still is) for Norwegian films to receive support from the government to get produced. Producer

used three years to find investors to the project. After the film's success it took only three weeks to secure investors for the sequel,

. Hynnkleiv and his wife, director

produced the film with their own company, Penelope Film. The crew were mixed with local talent and international craftsmen.

External links

* 1988 films Films directed by Grete Salomonsen Norwegian children's films 1980s Norwegian-language films {{Norway-film-stub