Egil Hjorth-Jenssen Movies

The Market of the Unknowns is a burlesque and socially critical tale of a flea market in Oslo, which is organized for the benefit of slum dwellers in...

Oslo family the Monsens recieve uncle Pavel's house on the south coast of Norway after his passing. Mr. Monsen is also under the assumption that he...

The play opens in the study at Hakon Werle's house during a dinner party for the return of Werle's son, Gregers, from the Hoidal mines. Gregers has...

The film describes how resistance fighter Knut Magne Haugland operated an illegal telegraph station on the roof of the National Hospital in 1944...

A conservative old bachelor buys an apartment previously owned by an artist who died suddenly. He has a weird feeling about the place from the start,...

While Sigurd Helmer is being dressed in his bishop's robes, the fanatical Tornkvist arrives at the ordination and watches from the background. Even...

Schoolmates 20 years later.

The working-class family Bråten is living in a top floor of a tenement house on the outskirts of Oslo. The family includes three sons and two...

In "Skadeskutt" we follow the couple Einar and Else Wang in a painful drama about love, happiness, sorrow and eternal damnation. About a couple's...

Based on the Norwegian fairytale.

The stuttering Theobald stumbles upon some ballet girls who are in town with a touring theater company and falls in love with Lill. This leads to an...

Well off Helga takers on a bet that she can be a house maid for a year, to get a diamond ring, which leads to a job that implicates quite a lot, and...

Documentary about 100 boys on a voyage with the school ship "Christian Radich" to Lisbon, Casablanca, Madeira and the Azores in the summer of 1947.

Student Tom Polden lives in difficult conditions at home. His mother lives constantly on the memories of her deceased husband. Her little hat shop is...

This the story of a wizard elk - Rauten, as people called him. He was a human being in animal guise. The story begins in Ré Valley, which lies...

We meet the young violinist Øyvind Dahl at a time when everything has weighed him down and he is completely desperate for alcohol. He has left...

The film is about three men who rob a liquor store. They are all being investigated and pursued by the authorities – more or less justifiably...

Jens von Bustenskjold is a farmer despite his more promising family past when his family was of a fine descent. But he is lazy, and he wants to...

The young wife of an upper-class academic disappears while her husband is on holiday. In his search for her, the husband learns that there was much...

Young Petter moves together with his family from a happy life in a rural fisher's village to a rough community and school life in the city of Oslo.