Lars Gudmestad (Writing)
Little is known about Lars Gudmestad, a figure with a modest footprint in Writing. Stay tuned for updates as more details become available.
Works
Safe House
The civil war rages in the Central African Republic, Linn (35) leads a team of aid workers who are working tirelessly to save lives in a field hospital outside a massive refugee camp. When a Muslim man, persecuted and in mortal danger, seeks refuge, Linn faces a critical decision. A growing mob and Christian militia demand his handover. As the head of security, Linn must act quickly, brutally balancing the safety of her team with the value of a single life. Based on the true events that unfolded during 15 tense hours at a Doctors Without Borders hospital in Bangui on Christmas Eve, 2013.
Release Date:2025-02-28
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
The Wrong Track
When chaotic single mother Emilie hits a new low, she looks to her brother for help. He has a brilliant plan: to enter a cross-country ski marathon.
Release Date:2025-02-27
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
La Palma
A Norwegian family vacationing on La Palma faces disaster when a young researcher discovers alarming signs of an imminent volcanic eruption.
Release Date:2024-12-12
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Episode Count:4
Vote Count:155
The Arctic Convoy
In 1942, a convoy of 35 civilian ships, carrying vital supplies from Iceland to the Soviet Union, faces deadly challenges in the Arctic. Despite Allied naval escort, catastrophic intelligence errors expose the convoy to relentless German air and naval attacks. In the brutal conditions, inexperienced civilian sailors fight for survival, with only 12 ships making it to their destination.
Release Date:2023-12-25
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Vote Count:81
Teddy's Christmas
While visiting a Christmas market in her Norwegian town, eight year old Mariann spots a talking teddy bear at a carnival game booth. However, when someone else wins it, she embarks on a quest to find the adorable bear that captured her heart.
Release Date:2022-11-05
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Vote Count:45
Full dekning
Seven long-time friends meet for dinner. They decide to share their text messages, emails and phone calls. Secrets are unveiled. Harmony trembles.
Release Date:2022-02-25
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Vote Count:5
The Burning Sea
An oil platform dramatically goes down on the Norwegian coast, and researchers try to find out what happened when they realize this is just the start of something even more serious.
Release Date:2021-10-29
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Vote Count:253
Betrayed
During World War II, millions of Jews from all over Europe are deported and killed in German concentration camps. When the German troops invade Norway, the Norwegian Jews feel safe and protected. But anti-Semitism knows no borders and as the war escalates in Europe, the situation changes drastically. Suddenly, their radios are taken away; their passports are stamped with a big J and one day, all the men men over the age of 15 are arrested and taken to prisons camps. Many of the women left behind are too frightened to escape and are desperately waiting for their husbands and sons to come back home. On November 26, 1942, hundreds of Jews are picked up by the police in the middle of the night and are transported to the dock in Oslo. Unknowing and frightened men, women, children, sick and old are forced on board the awaiting German cargo ship "SS DONAU". The ship leaves with 532 Norwegian Jews onboard; 302 men, 188 women and 42 children. The end station is Auschwitz.
Release Date:2020-12-25
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Vote Count:34
Dragon Girl
Nine year old Sara befriends a newborn dragon, together they will turn Christmas upside down and literary put it on fire.
Release Date:2020-11-13
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Vote Count:14
Forgotten Christmas
Carpenter Andersen and Santa Claus are back and this time they have to help little Elise save christmas before it's too late.
Release Date:2019-11-08
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Vote Count:26
Helt perfekt
Johan is a friendly but self-absorbed man with a difficult inability to say no. He strives for the perfect life, but is getting involved constantly in uncomfortable situations.
Release Date:2018-02-25
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Episode Count:4
Vote Count:2
Summer with the Family
Jens and wife Åsa pack up the family to spend the summer in the archipelago. The idyll, however, does not appear when it comes out that the in-laws do not intend to leave the cottage to Jens and Åsa, but plan to spend the whole summer there with them.
Release Date:2017-03-19
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Episode Count:10
Vote Count:8
Valkyrien
In an illegal hospital, hidden in an Oslo underground station, a physician is desperately trying to find a cure for his wife's terminal illness.
Release Date:2017-01-01
Department:Creator
Job:Creator
Vote Count:23
The Christmas King: In Full Armor
An evil lord, eager to rule the Valley of Knights, steals a magic suit of armor and is determined to hunt down the young queen for the missing part, the snow-making glove. But two courageous kids from our world are coming to her rescue.
Release Date:2015-11-13
Department:Writing
Job:Story
Vote Count:27
Behind - The Christmas King: In Full Armor
A Behind the Scenes documentary about "Julekongen: Full Rustning"
Release Date:2015-11-13
Captain Sabertooth and the Treasure of Lama Rama
The orphan boy Pinky follows the Captain on an exciting and dangerous journey across the big oceans to the kingdom of Lama Rama, hunting for a treasure and the answer to who is Pinky's father.
Release Date:2014-09-26
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Vote Count:36
Behind The Scenes - Captain Sabertooth and the Treasure of Lama Rama
A behind the scenes of the Norwegian pirate movie "Kaptein Sabeltann og skatten i Lama Rama"
Release Date:2014-09-22
Character:Seg selv
Neste sommer
Norwegians' quest for the perfect holiday in the summer house, the constant experience that the dream never becomes a reality and the belief that it certainly will be better next summer.
Release Date:2014-03-09
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Episode Count:40
Vote Count:6
Julekongen
The series is about Kevin Gran who lives with his family in the Silver Forest. He likes to retire to a secret cave in the forest. One day he discovers that the cave leads into another world with knights, and an exciting adventure begins for Kevin.
Release Date:2012-12-01
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Episode Count:24
Vote Count:5
The Orheim Company
A strong, human tale about a boy growing up with an alcoholic father, but also an energetic story about teenage lust, pain and passion – about liberation and redemption.
Release Date:2012-03-02
Department:Writing
Job:Screenplay
Vote Count:21
Headhunters
An accomplished headhunter risks everything to obtain a valuable painting owned by a former mercenary.
Release Date:2011-08-26
Department:Writing
Job:Screenplay
Vote Count:1252
Den unge Fleksnes
Day’O! Marve Fleksnes is back. A bit clumsy and just as charming - but this time in a younger version. The young Fleksnes is the only new, Norwegian-produced Christmas calendar on television in years.
Release Date:2010-12-01
Department:Crew
Job:Script
Episode Count:24
Vote Count:3
Cold Prey III
In 1988, a group of teenagers go to visit an abandoned hotel, only to find themselves hunted by a psychotic killer through the Norwegian woods.
Release Date:2010-10-15
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Vote Count:162
The Liverpool Goalie
Jo (13) is a smart thinker with a vivid imagination, but is bothered by classmates, and is a rather hopeless soccer goalie. He does what he has to survive this difficult time in life whilst every kid in the street is trying to get hold of a football-card with the goalie of Liverpool.
Release Date:2010-07-04
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Vote Count:22
Fatso
Overweight loner Rino spends his days in seclusion, until his dad rents a room to an overtly sexual girl who challenges Rino to break down his walls.
Release Date:2008-10-24
Department:Writing
Job:Screenplay
Character:Horebukk 1
Vote Count:71
Mirush
Mirush leaves Kosovo hoping to find his father in Norway, who abandoned the family when Mirush was very young. Now the father runs a restaurant in Oslo, but he is also in deep debt to the Albanian Mafia. Mirush starts to work in his father's restaurant without letting him know that he is his son.
Release Date:2007-03-02
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Vote Count:10
Ran
Five boys meet in their teens. This lays the foundation for a career in crime, driven on by the dream of the big heist. Police are becoming aware of them, but the biggest threat is proving to be their own friendship. "Ran" is a high-profile television drama for four episodes. It a mix of drama and action, which is about both spectacular robberies, and about friendship and affiliation. The dilemma the gang encounters is similar to what most of us experience: there comes a point in life where the roads separate, where you realize that you and your old friends have grown apart. This causes a bigger problems for these guys, as this break is not just a little sad and melancholy experience - it is also a threat to their life, their future and their identity.
Release Date:2005-02-14
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Episode Count:4
Vote Count:4
Buddy
Kristoffer lives in Oslo with his friends Geir and Stig Inge. He works as a billboard installer, and in his spare time he makes a video diary with Geir and Stig, containing stunts of a Jackass-nature. When Kristoffer's girlfriend, Elisabeth, leaves him, his life seems to fall to pieces. Until his videos are featured on Norway's most popular talk show and Kristoffer becomes famous.
Release Date:2003-08-29
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Vote Count:38
The 7 Deadly Sins
Feature film length collection of seven short films about the biblical seven sins by preliminary younger Norwegian directors.
Release Date:2000-08-11
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:1
Spenn
A father is struggling to keep a good life with his son. His last business project was a flop. He is about to loose everything when two men with a gun turns up and makes him a proposal.
Department:Writing
Job:Writer