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''The Other Side of Sunday'' ( no, Søndagsengler) is a 1996 Norwegian film directed by
Berit Nesheim Berit Nesheim (born 28 January 1945) is a Norwegian film director. Nesheim graduated from the University of Oslo in foreign languages, literature and psychology to go on to a career as a director of television films. Her first feature-film was Fr ...
, starring Marie Theisen and
Bjørn Sundquist Bjørn Richard Sundquist (born 16 June 1948) is a Norwegian actor, famous for TV, theatre, and movie roles. For many years he worked at Det Norske Teatret and Nationaltheateret in Oslo, and he is especially famous for the roles as Merlin and H ...
. The film was the most-viewed film in
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 t ...
in 1996 and was nominated for an
Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film The Academy Award for Best International Feature Film (known as Best Foreign Language Film prior to 2020) is one of the Academy Awards handed out annually by the U.S.-based Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS). It is given to a ...
in 1997.


Cast

* Marie Theisen as Maria *
Hildegun Riise Hildegun Riise (born December 19, 1958) is a Norwegian actress. Riise was born in Strandebarm, Norway. In 2001 she received the Amanda Award for best actress for her performance in ''Detektor''. Filmography * 1986/1989: '' Eventyrstund med J ...
as Mrs. Tunheim *
Bjørn Sundquist Bjørn Richard Sundquist (born 16 June 1948) is a Norwegian actor, famous for TV, theatre, and movie roles. For many years he worked at Det Norske Teatret and Nationaltheateret in Oslo, and he is especially famous for the roles as Merlin and H ...
as Johannes, her Father *
Sylvia Salvesen Sylvia Salvesen (25 January 1890 – 1973) was a member of the high society in Norway, and a resistance pioneer during World War II. She was arrested and sent to the Ravensbrück concentration camp in Germany. She witnessed at the Hamburg Rave ...
as Moren * Martin Dahl Garfalk as Olav * Ina Sofie Brodahl as Anna * Ann Kristin Rasmussen as Birgit


Production

When this movie was nominated for an Oscar in the category "best foreign language film", Marie Theisen, who was 15 years old during filming, said that she realized her full nude swimming scene was difficult to accept for the American audience, but she thought it was well done and absolutely necessary for the context.


See also

*
List of submissions to the 69th Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film This is a list of submissions to the 69th Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film. The Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film was created in 1956 by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to honour non-English-speaking films ...
*
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 ...


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* 1996 films 1996 drama films Norwegian drama films 1990s Norwegian-language films Films about religion Films set in the 1950s Films directed by Berit Nesheim 1996 in Norwegian cinema {{Norway-film-stub