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.
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 Date2008-12-18
Charactersd Martin Linge
Vote Count261
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 Date1995-07-14
Charactersd Holmsen
Vote Count3
A tough police investigator and her team are currently solving murder cases. 15 years later she's at a completely different and more dangerous place.
Release Date2020-09-06
Charactersd Gierts
Episode Count1
Vote Count7
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 Date2021-09-10
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Charactersd Doctor 3
Vote Count15
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 Date2021-05-02
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count6
Vote Count37
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 Date2004-01-23
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count20
Prime Minister Alma Solvik gets caught up in a scandal before elections. During Alma's term in power, her husband Sondre has done transactions on the stock exchange apparently using the government's inside information. Alma puts together a crisis communication HQ that formulates the tactics for communicating with the public. The Prime Minister is also a prime minister at home and therefore they launch the campaign "Sondre is the culprit" – the elections must be won, after all.
Release Date2025-08-22
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count2
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 Date2001-03-16
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count184
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 Date1982-09-17
DepartmentArt
JobAssistant Property Master
Vote Count9
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 Date2018-10-28
DepartmentArt
JobCreative Director
Episode Count8
Vote Count25
During World War II, enemy fighter pilots find themselves face to face after shooting down one another's planes over a desolate landscape. In order to survive, they must set aside the rules of war.
Release Date2012-03-09
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count314
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 Date2007-02-09
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count8
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 Date1984-09-06
DepartmentArt
JobProps
Vote Count7
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 Date1999-01-29
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count9
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 Date2007-09-07
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count28
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 Date2008-09-07
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count2
Vote Count1
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 Date2014-09-04
DepartmentCreator
JobCreator
Vote Count2
A love story between two savants with Asperger's syndrome, a kind of autism, whose conditions sabotage their budding relationship.
Release Date2005-09-10
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count145
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 Date2010-10-01
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count11
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 Date2005-09-23
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count16
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 Date1990-08-30
Vote Count24
Two parents and two children go out for a Sunday walk.
Release Date1991-01-01
