Kåre Bergstrøm (3 February 1911 – 24 June 1976) was a Swedish-born photographer and film director who settled in Norway. Bergstrøm was born in

Värmland Värmland () also known as Wermeland, is a '' landskap'' (historical province) in west-central Sweden. It borders Västergötland, Dalsland, Dalarna, Västmanland, and Närke, and is bounded by Norway in the west. Latin name versions are ''Va ...

. He was assigned with the film production company

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from 1933, and eventually became a photographer. He photographed

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's film ''

Den forsvundne pølsemaker ''The Sausage-Maker Who Disappeared'' ( no, Den forsvundne pølsemakere) is a 1941 Norwegian comedy film written and directed by Toralf Sandø, starring Leif Juster and Ernst Diesen. Private investigators Gløgg (Diesen) and Rask (Juster) have be ...

'' from 1941,

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's film '' Den farlige leken'' from 1942,

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's ''

Trysil-Knut ''Trysil-Knut'' is a Norwegian film from 1942. Rasmus Breistein directed this skiing melodrama during the German occupation of Norway. It tells the story of the legendary skier Knut from Trysil, an ardent patriot at the beginning of the 1800s wh ...

'' from 1942, and

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's comedy ''

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'' from 1942. After World War II he photographed

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's film debut ''

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'', and Ibsen's ''

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'', which eventually was forbidden to be shown in public after a judgement by the

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. His first film as director was the love story ''

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'' from 1952. He further directed the comedy ''

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'' (1952), the war documentary '' Blodveien'' (1955), about Yugoslavian slave workers in Norway during World War II, the thriller '' Lake of the Dead '' (1958), based on a crime novel by

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, a

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about

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(1961), ''

Klokker i måneskinn ''Klokker i måneskinn'' (Bells in the Moonlight) is a Norwegian anthology film from 1964 directed by Kåre Bergstrøm. The film is about four men that have gathered for an evening of bridge. Three of them relate accounts of supernatural events, w ...

'' (1964), and the children's film '' Bjurra'' (1970).

References

1911 births 1976 deaths People from Värmland Photographers from Oslo Norwegian film directors Film people from Oslo Swedish emigrants to Norway {{norway-film-director-stub