Erik Hivju
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Fjord
After the deaths of Mihai's parents, Mihai and Lisbeth Gheorghiu leave everything behind in Romania and move with their children to a remote village in Norway, hoping to rebuild their lives near Lisbeth's family. There, they grow close to their neighbors, the Halbergs, whose warmth offers the promise of a fresh start.
Nr. 24
Young apprentice Gunnar Sønsteby from Rjukan decides to resist Nazi-Germany on the day of the invasion to later become the leader of the "Oslo-gang" carrying out countless daring acts of sabotage making him Norway's greatest war hero.
Landslagspausen
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.
Spionen
Sonja Wigert is a diva and star in Stockholm when World War II breaks out, rapidly getting attention from German officer Josef Terboven. She's then recruited by Swedish intelligence as a spy, but Terboven makes her spy on the Swedes.
Magnus
Magnus - arguably the worst investigator in the police - gets the task of solving a murder riddle which simply literally is out of this world.
Askeladden - I Soria Moria slott
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.
Kings Bay
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?
Snekker Andersen og Julenissen
Carpenter Andersen and Santa Claus makes a deal which saves Christmas for them both.
Kongens Nei
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 Haakon's difficult choice after Nazi Germany's invasion of Norway.
Grand Hotel
About a pompous, aging alcoholic and a tourettes-inflicted ten-year-old boy who 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 outside world and the problems it presents.
Mysteriet Holst
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 own gun.
Reisen til julestjernen
Once upon a time a little girl went out to find the Christmas star.
Dauinger
Steffen a young boy starts seeing dead people when he is with his father that works as and exorcist.
Gråtass får en ny venn
Fergie thrives at the farm, but sometimes he still feels alone as a living machine. He gets an idea of making and befriending an automatic scare crow. But then his new friend is kidnapped.
Ulvenatten
Under a live TV debate a group of Chechen takes several hostages, and demands that it is shown live across the world. We follow the dram from 22 at night to 08 next morning.
Sørgekåpen
Norwegian miniseries based on Unni Lindell's mystery novel. Lise Sommer is haunted by her past in "Sørgekåpen" (The Mourning Cloak). Her best friend Esther Synnøve Lønn is found murdered with her throat slit. A few days later, Esther's son also disappears.
Jul på Månetoppen
A Christmas story about a girl named Jenteungen and a boy named Storm. She is a rødnisse and he is a blånisse. They live different lives in the mountain and on a farm called Tuftegåren.
Salige er de som tørster
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 Wilhelmsen begins a search for the suspected serial killer.
Mørkets øy
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 community of the island.
Frida - med hjertet i hånden
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...
Karachi
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 catch the badguys.
En håndfull tid
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.
Vidkun Quisling et liv - en rettssak
A reenactment that details the trial against Vidkun Quisling. The trial took place in Eidsivating Court of Appeal in 1945, after the end of Second World War, and Vidkun Quisling is presented as a person and politician in this reenactment.
The Last Place on Earth
Based on the book 'Scott and Amundsen' by Roland Huntford, "The Last Place on Earth" is an exploration of the rivalry between Captain Robert F. Scott and Ronald Amundsen as they attempt to reach the South Pole.
Liten Ida
Little Ida's mother is working for the Germans during World War II, 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 actually going on.
Rallarblod
In a rich town somewhere in Norway in 1910, a railroad is made with the bare hands of traveling railroad workers. With them follows noise and trouble, due to drinking and fighting. On of them, Sjugurd, sets his eye on a farmer daughter.
Dagny
Dagny Juell was the doctors daughter who left Kongsvinger for Berlin to study music, and became famous painter Edvard Munchs mistress.
Lukket avdeling
Life in a mental ward in Norway, with both tragic and comic elements.