Movies: Joachim Holst-Jensen

The movie takes place during World War II and depicts the true story of Jan Baalsruds amazing escape from the German army from the coast of Northern Norway and across the border to the neutral country Sweden....

Two police officers lie dead. The swede Ekstrøm and the youngster Gustav flees the scene of the crime. Based on a real double murder in 1926, this movie remained almost unseen for 57 years. When the film was set to premiere in 1950 one of the murder...

Based on a true story this almost documentary-like drama tells the story of a young woman doctor who in 1942, helped several Jewish children escape for the border to neutral Sweden. Not knowing who to trust and chased by the germans, the flight quick...

The story of the sour old virgin who celebrates Christmas with the judge Bals. She makes life miserable for both the family and the other guests. There are many complications, which does not resolve until Christmas Eve is over....

Private investigators Gløgg and Rask have been hired to trace a butcher (sausage-maker) who has disappeared. This leads the two into a number of adventures....

The city boy Rolf gets a job on a big farm, and soon lies about finding gold. We see the rise of gold fever while the corn rots away....

Shipping broker Landheim tries to save a failing theater, but falls in love. Is the broker a journalist, and the actress a prima donna? Who knows?...

Siberian hunter Burtaj learns from his dying father that he originates from German farmers on his mother side. He is thus a "bastard", since the hunters and peasants have been enemies since ancient times....

Spoiled upper class girl Marianne speeds through a small village and crashes her sports car into the house of the local vicar. She will have to stay for a few days while her car is repaired. Opposites attract but what will the locals think of this od...

Fandango is the director of a traveling circus. He brings with him a handful of artists who have to stick together to succeed, but there is a clear conflict between the director and the artists....

Based on the 1931 novel To levende og en død by Sigurd Christiansen. A post office worker is left wrestling with his conscience following a robbery at his workplace....

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, and gets more and more obsessed by the previous owner's possessions and way of living. Finding some ...

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The classic movie from 1938 is an adaptation of Oscar Braatens play. Eva Sletto plays the young factory worker Milja, and Harald Heide Steen as her unfaithful boyfriend Julius.Milja and Julius are a happy couple working at the factory, and everything...

Main character Esther feels like she doesn't fit into the 'elite' and takes the big showdown with those who always have....

Based on the true story of Norway's first labor strike, by female workers at a match factory in 1889....

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Problems, situations and a lot of singing happen at a mountain resort close to the Eastern Holidays....

Knut leads a record company, and when he meets the night club singer Anita Daae, his wife has to win him back....

An orphan, Josefa, runs away from her threatening uncle with whom she is living, and stows away on traveller Fændrik's boat. She is no better off with him, however, as he forces himself on her and makes her steal and beg for a living. Meanwhile Fændr...