Petter Næss is the director of Elling which was Oscar nominated in 2000. Otherwise he has primarily busied himself in the world of plays and revues, both as scriptwriter, director and actor. Since 1997 he has been employed as a director at Oslo New Theatre, and was, among other plays, responsible for the critically-acclaimed stage version of Elling and Kjell Bjarne.
Kasper Berntsen is a successful stand-up comedian, who has everything he could wish for. One day everything changes. He learns that he has a serious illness, and his girlfriend puts an end to it.
Release Date:2021-09-10
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Character:Doctor 3
Vote Count:15
Pørni is about the dilemmas that you end up in when you, to the best of your abilities, try to do the right thing for your loved ones, and yourself. In that order. Pørni has two daughters with a jerk of an ex who has moved to Copenhagen, who focuses mainly on himself.
Release Date:2021-05-02
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Episode Count:6
Vote Count:26
The night before Christmas 1969, the gas flare at the Ocean Viking is lit. Phillips has found the largest sub sea oil basin in history. And everything is about to change.
Release Date:2018-10-28
Department:Art
Job:Creative Director
Episode Count:8
Vote Count:22
Real estate agent Ken Olsen has seemingly got it all. A good job, a good car and a pretty wife. But he lies. A lot. When he gets exposed he has to start over, and he seeks help from his old real estate mentor Gunnar.
Release Date:2014-09-04
Department:Creator
Job:Creator
Vote Count:2
Based on a true story. On 27 April 1940, Luftwaffe pilot Horst Schopis' Heinkel 111 bomber is shot down near Grotli by an RAF Blackburn Skua L2940 fighter, which then crash-lands. The surviving German and English crew members begin to shoot at each other, but later find themselves huddled up in the same cabin. In order to survive the harsh winter in the Norwegian wilderness, they have to stand together. An unlikely, lifelong friendship blossoms.
Release Date:2012-03-09
Department:Writing
Job:Screenplay
Vote Count:296
It's the summer of 1951 in Oslo. Lillian and Amund Wang are blessed with their first and only child. Adrian Wang - a boy or a girl?
Release Date:2010-10-01
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:10
Max Manus is a Norwegian 2008 biographic war film based on the real events of the life of resistance fighter Max Manus (1914–96), after his contribution in the Winter War against the Soviet Union. The story follows Manus through the outbreak of World War II in Norway until peacetime in 1945.
Release Date:2008-12-18
Character:Martin Linge
Vote Count:250
Himmelblå is a Norwegian drama series which aired on NRK1 in Norway, on SVT in Sweden and on RÚV in Iceland. It is based on the British TV drama Two Thousand Acres of Sky written by Timothy Prager and produced by Adrian Bate.
Release Date:2008-09-07
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Episode Count:2
Vote Count:1
A woman moves into a young man's home and starts to run his life -- a process that makes him fall hopelessly in love with her.
Release Date:2007-09-07
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:27
Azad comes to Sweden by mistake. In order to blend in with the family that hides him, he must pretend that he is nine years old. Suddenly he's quite alone in a new country and doesn't understand the language. But with the help of a spaced-out hot-dog vendor, the coolest guy in school, and world champion Kajsa Bergqvist, maybe he can find his real family again.
Release Date:2007-02-09
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:7
Three years have passed since Elling moved to town together with Kjell Bjarne, his roommate from the institution at Brøynes. Elling now lives on his own in the apartment. Kjell Bjarne has moved up one floor, to Reidun and her little daughter Mojo. Elling feels like an outsider, and he isolates himself more and more. He observes humankind with astonishment, and wonders at how everyone else seems to be adjusting so well. Finally, Kjell Bjarne takes care of the situation. Elling protests, but he is still pretty happy as he is transformed into a new man, clean, fully rested and well dressed. Deep inside, he also knows what's lacking, and one evening he finally finds the woman he knows is able to fill the void in his life. He's willing to do anything to win her trust and conquer her love. But when he is invited home to his new girlfriend for dinner, a few objections appear to Elling, and the story doesn't end quite the way he had thought it would.
Release Date:2005-09-23
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:16
A love story between two savants with Asperger's syndrome, a kind of autism, whose conditions sabotage their budding relationship.
Release Date:2005-09-10
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:133
16 year-old Bea is in her first year at upper secondary school in Oslo. Active on the school magazine, she falls in love with Daniel, the smartest and most gifted student in the top year, who returns her feelings. There is just one drawback, namely her friend' idea of virginity and first love...
Release Date:2004-01-23
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:19
40-year-old Elling, sensitive, would-be poet, is sent to live in a state institution when his mother, who has sheltered him his entire life, dies. There he meets Kjell Bjarne, a gentle giant and female-obsessed virgin, also in his 40s.
Release Date:2001-03-16
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:176
John and Siri Lill are a couple who have been together for most of their forty something years, but are yet to be married. He works for a newspaper, and is a heavy drinker. She is a respected hairdresser, working for Birger, a commom friend. John, usually, bottle-in-hand is an ace at being at the wrong place at the wrong time. Tired of John's drinking, Siri decides to leave him and move to her parents' house. John's drinking then worsens, and their apartment becomes a mess. Siri decides to return to her and John's place, and that's when the Absolute Hangover really begins with a vengeance.
Release Date:1999-01-29
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:8
A dangerous criminal, named Falken, robs a bank together with a redneck small-criminal. They have to take a hostage and escape in a racing boat. When the hostage jumps overboard they have to stay at a lighthouse to wait for a boat. Here the conflicts starts.
Release Date:1995-07-14
Character:Holmsen
Vote Count:3
Two parents and two children go out for a Sunday walk.
Release Date:1991-01-01
A young boy named Pelle falls in love with the drug addict Lena. Then he and his friend Proffen tries to save her from the drugs.
Release Date:1990-08-30
Vote Count:20
The Olsen Gang has traveled south after the success of their last coup, but there's still someone who hasn't given up catching them.
Release Date:1984-09-06
Department:Art
Job:Props
Vote Count:7
The Olsen Gang is involved in a weapon trade for half a billion. It's their final coup, and Valborg is finally allowed to participate.
Release Date:1982-09-17
Department:Art
Job:Assistant Property Master
Vote Count:9