Erik Hivju

Hans Nielsen Hauge (2025)

At the age of 25, Hauge had an experience of God that changed both him and the whole of Norway. Through preaching, writing and publishing their own books, business start-ups, by hiring both the mentally and physically ill, and exalting the women as both pr ...

Number 24 (2024)

On the brink of the Second World War, a young Norwegian man's drive to resist the Nazis sets a new course for his future – and the future of his country. ...

Landslagspausen (2024)

Everything will be revealed in this unofficial comedy documentary about the pressure Erling Braut Haaland endured in preparation for Norway's qualifying match in the European Championship. ...

The Spy (2019)

Sonja Wigert, Scandinavia's most acclaimed female movie star, enlists as a spy for Swedish intelligence but ends up becoming entangled with the German Reichskommissar Terboven. ...

The Ash Lad: In Search of the Golden Castle (2019)

When the King and Queen are poisoned, brothers Per and Pål get arrested, suspected of being behind it. Younger brother Espen "Ash Lad" and Princess Kristin set out on a quest to find the mythical Soria Moria castle, which is said to be built of pure gold. ...

Frozen Memories (2018)

A retired farmer, battling dementia and the loss of his wife, receives help from his son to realize that life on the farm is no longer what it used to be. ...

Kings Bay (2017)

21 died in the explosion in the kings bay-accident in Ny-Ålesund in Spitsbergen i 1962. The accident led to the fall of the Norwegian labor party government ruling since WW2. Was this really an accident, and was it under Norwegian control? ...

Santa Swap: Merry Christmas Mr. Andersen (2016)

Carpenter Andersen and Santa Claus makes a deal which saves Christmas for them both. ...

The King's Choice (2016)

On 9 April 1940, German soldiers arrive in the city of Oslo. The King of Norway faces a choice that will change his country forever. The King's Choice is a story about the three most dramatic days in Norway's history, the royal family's escape and King Ha ...

Grand Hotel (2016)

A pompous, aging alcoholic and a tourettes-inflicted ten-year-old boy are forced to spend a week together at a high-end hotel. The only thing these two have in common is that they are both difficult to like. The hotel serves as their shared escape from the ...

Mysteriet Holst (2013)

June 27th, 1945. The norwegian resistance fighter Kai Holst travels to Stockholm. According to witnesses, he's going to "sort something out", and someone will be pale by the results. A day later he is found dead on a stairwell, shot in the head with his ow ...

Journey to the Christmas Star (2012)

13 year old kind-hearted Sonja arrives at a tiny village together with a company of bandits. But there is a curse on the village. A long time ago, the King's only daughter Goldhair disappeared while searching for the Christmas Star. The Queen died of a bro ...

Little Grey Fergie and His New Friend Clunky (2011)

Little Grey Fergie has settled in on his life on the farm, but sometimes he feels lonely as the only machine. One day a random event brings the metal scarecrow to life and gives Fergie a new friend. ...

Flax (2008)

Two hit-men are waiting for their next victim. A fight is evolving - about friendship and a lottery-ticket. ...

Night of the Wolf (2008)

During a live broadcast of a talk show on a TV channel, a group of armed Chechen terrorists take several hostages. The terrorists demand the hostage drama is transmitted live worldwide. Meanwhile, behind the scene, the police negotiator and a special polic ...

Karsten + Petra (2003)

Isle of Darkness (1997)

Julie is a young and newly qualified teacher from Copenhagen, Denmark. Fed up with her unfaithful boyfriend and big city life, she takes a job as a teacher on an idyllic island in southern Norway. Julie finds it difficult to be accepted in the closed-net c ...

Blessed Are Those Who Thirst (1997)

Adapted from a novel by Norway's justice minister Anne Holt. Lesbian policewoman Hanne Wilhelmsen (Kjersti Elvik), who has a live-in lover, tools about Oslo on her Harley-Davidson. After a number of women vanish, police find blood but no bodies, and Wilhel ...

1996: Pust på meg! (1997)

On a day in April 1996, four stories play out in the confines of a flat in the heart of Oslo. ...

Hamsun (1996)

Knut Hamsun is Norway's most famous and admired author. Ever since he was young he has hated the English for the starvation they caused Norway during WWI. When the Germans occupy Norway 9 April 1940 he welcomes them and the protection they can give from Gr ...

Peer Gynt (1993)

The classic tale by Henrik Ibsen; a complete opposite of a hero, is banished from his village for his (in)actions. ...

Frida - Straight from the Heart (1991)

Frida, aged 13, has discovered a book by psychoanalyst Erich Fromm called "The art of loving". Using it as a reference she sets out to better the love lives of her family and friends. But love works in mysterious ways... ...

A Handful of Time (1989)

Gothic thriller about Old Martin who heeds the voice of Anna, who calls him back to the mountain cabin where he left her to die while she gave birth to their surviving son. ...

Karachi (1989)

Sara Philips is pressured into smuggling 2 kg heroin into Norway. She meets up with the narcotics agent Ted Hansen and lets him use her in a scheme to catch the powerful people in the drug cartel. While hiding in Ted's safe house, Ted himself tries to catc ...

Du kan da ikke bare gå (1985)

Standard Norwegian TV-drama from the 1980's ...

Farewell Illusions (1985)

A harrowing and ironic story about the first big and well educated generation born after WW2, living without any major concerns between 1965 and 1975. ...

Krypskyttere (1982)

A conflict between the Norwegian military and the civilian population during the cold war. A disagreement arises about the right to a military shooting field. ...

Little Ida (1981)

Little Ida's mother is working for the Germans during WW2, and she is also having a relationship with a German SS-officer. Ida is experiencing the problems of having a mother who is involved with the enemy, without being old enough to understand what is ac ...

Arme, syndige menneske (1980)

The alcoholic Oslo journalist Erik Mogensen goes to Copenhagen to make a story about youth and drugs. Inevitably this goes wrong for Erik. ...

Blood of the Railroad Workers (1979)

A group of migratory rail road workers arrive in a small town in Norway, and cause social conflict. One of the men, Sjugur, stands apart as a strong, independent man. The girls like him, but he has set his sights on the daughter of a wealthy landowner. ...

Operation Cobra (1978)

The US Secretary of State is on an official visit to Oslo. Among other things, the Middle East conflict will be discussed at the meeting. The Norwegian police are on high alert, helicopters are circling above the treetops, and there are fears of terrorist ...

Dagny (1977)

Dagny Juell was the doctors daughter who left Kongsvinger for Berlin to study music, and became famous painter Edvard Munchs mistress and model. Than she ran into August Strindberg. They had a brief affair but after a couple of weeks Dagny left him for Sta ...

Oss (1976)

Following political upheaval, traditionally poor countries have stopped exporting raw materials. The Western world is entering an economic crisis, which is rapidly spreading to Norway. Unemployment rises sharply, and it becomes more difficult to obtain foo ...

Them and Us (1976)

Lasse & Geir, two suburban boys in their late teens, kick up a row on the bus into town, making the driver call the police. They get arrested and have to spend the night in jail. The next morning they are sent home - Geir to his alcoholic mother, Lasse ...

Closed Ward (1972)

This black-and-white Norwegian film is a great rarity: a film with comic elements set in a mental ward which does not overstep the bounds of common sense or good taste. ...