Egil Hjorth-Jenssen Movies

An exuberant story about Askeladden, the hero of Norwegian traditional fairy tales, outwitting the good-natured troll.

A group of very different men are summoned for their refresher training at Haglemoen military camp. One more strange than the other, we get to meet...

Gerd, considered a woman of dubious morals, falls in love with a boy whose family does not accept their relationship, so both run away and settle in...

Norwegian propaganda film and cult drama about Eva (16) and Arne (17), both from well established homes, attend a class where a professor says that...

Erik Dahl escapes from prison where he is serving a sentence for smuggling. He seeks out his family, but the police have already been there, and he...

Filmen beskriver hvordan motstandsmannen Knut Magne Haugland i 1944 opererte en illegal telegrafi-stasjon på Rikshospitalets tak under den...

A conservative old bachelor buys an apartment previously owned by an artist who died suddenly. He has a weird feeling about the place from the start,...

Mountain climbing and its dangers get a different twist in this standard drama by Norwegian director Tancred Ibsen. When one of two climbing buddies...

Based on the novel by Alexander Kielland.

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...

This is a light comedy from Edith Carlmar, Norways first woman director. It takes place in a company that sells baby toys. It is time to fill a...

Thorvald runs a local bus route, with a 1923-model bus nicknamed 'Gamla', in the Norwegian country side. Thorvald himself always takes time to make...

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...

Bustenskjold is a Norwegian film of 1958. The film is based on comic book Jens von Bustenskjold . Leif Juster starred as Jens von Bustenskjold ....

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

We meet the young violinist Øyvind Dahl at a time when everything has weighed him down and he is completely desperate for alcohol. He has left...

Milja, living in Kristiania in the late 1800s, becomes pregnant, but the father of the child, Julius, is not around after the child has been born and...

A retired professor has returned to his estate to live with his beautiful young wife, Elena.