Lars Saabye Christensen
Lars Saabye Christensen (born 21 September 1953 in Oslo) is a Norwegian/Danish author.
Saabye Christensen was raised in the Skillebekk neighbourhood of Oslo, but lived for many years in Sortland in northern Norway; both places play a major r ...
, and Solum. It is based on the 1927 novel '' Wayfarers'' by
Knut Hamsun
Knut Hamsun (4 August 1859 – 19 February 1952) was a Norwegian writer who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1920. Hamsun's work spans more than 70 years and shows variation with regard to consciousness, subject, perspective a ...
. The film depicts
Nordland
Nordland (; smj, Nordlánnda, sma, Nordlaante, sme, Nordlánda, en, Northland) is a county in Norway in the Northern Norway region, the least populous of all 11 counties, bordering Troms og Finnmark in the north, Trøndelag in the south, N ...
during the transition between the era of the "
privileged trader
A privileged trader ( no, nessekonge, literally 'peninsular king', also known as a ''væreiere'' 'community owner') is a term that was used for fish merchants or landowners that enjoyed special privileges along the coast of Northern Norway from ...
s" and modernity in the 1860s.
The film was released on DVD in 2009.
Marika Lagercrantz
Marika Karin Louise Lagercrantz (born 12 July 1954) is a Swedish actress. Since 2011, she has been Sweden's cultural attaché at the Berlin embassy in Germany.
Lagercrantz was born in Solna. She is the daughter of Olof Lagercrantz, granddaught ...
as Lovise Magrete
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Helge Jordal
Helge Jordal (born 17 February 1946) is a Norwegian actor. He was appointed a Knight of the Royal Order of St. Olav in 2006 for his long career as an actor both on screen and on stage, and for his position as a "grand old man" among Norwegian a ...
as August
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Liv Heløe
Liv Heløe (born 3 February 1963) is a Norwegian actress and writer. Working as a professional actor from the age of 11, playing several significant parts on film and in the theatre in both classical and contemporary drama, she made her debut as ...
Espen Skjønberg
Espen Henrik Skjønberg (7 April 1924 – 26 August 2022) was a Norwegian actor of stage, screen, and television.
Career
Skjønberg made his first movie appearances as a child in the 1932 film '' En glad gutt'' and in the 1937 Norwegian classic ...
Lasse Lindtner
Lars Johan Lindtner, known as Lasse Lindtner (born March 7, 1955 in Bergen)"Lasse Lindtner" ''
Hildegun Riise as Jomfru Ellingsen
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Frank Krog
Hallgeir Frank Krog (5 October 1954 – 23 December 2008) was a Norwegian actor.
Krog was born in Bergen. He started his career as a stage worker and extra at the theatre Den Nasjonale Scene, but later attended the Norwegian National Academy ...