Egil Hjorth-Jenssen Movies

A Norwegian comedy

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?

Filmen beskriver hvordan motstandsmannen Knut Magne Haugland i 1944 opererte en illegal telegrafi-stasjon på Rikshospitalets tak under den...

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...

Thorvald runs a local bus route, with a 1923-model bus nicknamed 'Gamla', in the Norwegian country side. Thorvald himself always takes time to make...

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...

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...

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...

A group of very different men are summoned for their refresher training at Haglemoen military camp. One more strange than the other, we get to meet...

In the end of the great war and general major Arthur Ranlow orders an attack on an enemy atomic installation. He sends some men he suspects having a...

Erik Dahl escapes from prison where he is serving a sentence for smuggling. He seeks out his family, but the police have already been there, and he...

Milja, living in Kristiania in the late 1800s, becomes pregnant, but the father of the child, Julius, is not around after the child has been born and...

Schoolmates 20 years later.

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...

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,...

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...

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...

Based on the Norwegian fairytale.

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.

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.