Oscar Egede-Nissen Movies

In Norway in the 1600s, An-Magritt is born as the result of a rape.

Hans Nielsen Hauge was a Norwegian reformer in the early 1800's both financially and spiritually.

An orphan, Josefa, runs away from her threatening uncle with whom she is living, and stows away on traveller Fændrik's boat. She is no better...

A group of Norwegians cross the North Sea in winter to deliver Allied soldiers and ammunition to their Nazi-occupied country.

The Master and His Servants (Norwegian: Herren og hans tjenere) is a 1959 Norwegian drama film directed by Arne Skouen. The film is based on a 1955...

The film is a so-called "worker's film", which was made on behalf of the Workers' Information Association to motivate voters in the cities to vote...

Trysil-Knut is a Norwegian film from 1942. Directed by veteran Rasmus Breistein and is a ski themed melodrama about the legendary skier Trysil-Knut...

The Whalers (original title: Valfangare) is a filmed record of the final whaling expedition in the Arctic before the outbreak of WW2. Only partly a...

Ludvina is considered a woman of loose morals in her small home town. When she becomes pregnant, she decides to raise the child without the help of a...

The young wife of an upper-class academic disappears while her husband is on holiday. In his search for her, the husband learns that there was much...

The play opens in the study at Hakon Werle's house during a dinner party for the return of Werle's son, Gregers, from the Hoidal mines. Gregers has...

Siberian hunter Burtaj learns from his dying father that he originates from German farmers on his mother side. He is thus a "bastard", since the...

The secret smuggling of Wanted persons from the westcoast of Norway over to England during the WWII, based upon the novel by Nowegian novelist Sigurd...

In "Skadeskutt" we follow the couple Einar and Else Wang in a painful drama about love, happiness, sorrow and eternal damnation. About a couple's...

Den nye lægen (English: The New Doctor) is a 1943 Norwegian drama film directed by Rasmus Breistein, starring Jon Lennart Mjøen. The...

Per has won the 50 kilometer in Holmenkollen, but which village is he from, Alvdal or Tynset?

A young violinist dies during a concert being sick with tuberculosis, and his concert conducting father takes the blame and starts to drink. He is...

The Conservative party's election film for 1936. It showcased, among other things, how unnecessary the workers' strikes were and how unnecessarily...

A six year old boy runs away from home with the family's big dog, a St. Berhard, who the grown ups wants to put down.

The film is often referred to as a «labor film», because it is one of several film dramas from the 1930s that the Norwegian labor...