Helge Essmar Movies

Mountain climbing and its dangers get a different twist in this standard drama by Norwegian director Tancred Ibsen. When one of two climbing buddies...

The movie takes place on Oslo's east side sometime during the twenties. It depicts the workers' environment by traditional elements like...

Tim is a proofreader at a newspaper in Oslo by day, and a pyromaniac at night. Only one other knows about Tim’s dark side: his childhood friend...

Hans Nielsen Hauge was a Norwegian reformer in the early 1800's both financially and spiritually.

The Master and His Servants (Norwegian: Herren og hans tjenere) is a 1959 Norwegian drama film directed by Arne Skouen. The film is based on a 1955...

Based on the novel by Alexander Kielland.

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...

Describes the origin and development of the trade union movement.

Yugoslav Partizans, captured by Nazis, are sent to concentration camps in distant Norway. The local population help some Partizans survive or flee to...

It is about life in the working-class youth groups, the work of the abstinence movement, about friendship, unity and love between young people.

The secret smuggling of Wanted persons from the westcoast of Norway over to England during the WWII, based upon the novel by Nowegian novelist Sigurd...

An American bomber is shot down on the Norwegian coast during World War II. The airmen bail out and land at different locations. In spite of the...

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...

A lawyer comes up with a devious plan to kill his half sister and frame another man for the crime.