Marianne Nielsen

An adventure can occur anywhere. Also at the bus stop.

This melodrama is based on the best-selling autobiography of Ida Halvorsen, a part-time prostitute with a life that was difficult to survive. Ida (Kristin Kajander) grew up with an alcoholic father, and after she married an alcoholic, her life went from early marital bliss to misery. She had a child during that marriage, took drugs, and turned to prostitution to get the money she needed. Along the way, many characters she met were dangerous and in more than one instance almost killed her. For Norwegians who are familiar with her story, the ending to the film will be recognized as incomplete, the story continues. For other audiences the ending might be a little grim.

Varg Veum vient d'arracher la jeune Lisa Halle, 17 ans, à une vie de prostitution dans les rues de Copenhague. Le privé est alors engagé pour retrouver son ami, Peter Werner. Varg découvre son cadavre, poignardé, dans un hôtel sordide. Alors qu'il lutte pour sauver Lisa de sa perte et dépister l'assassin de Peter, il est obligé de se mesurer aux plus dangereux dealers de la ville.

Dans la Norvège des années 70, Knut Pedersen est un professeur de lycée ordinaire qui, à 28 ans, désire former un couple, avoir des enfants et vivre simplement. Sa rencontre avec Werner, un étudiant communiste, va bouleverser sa vie. Knut adhère au parti et y fait la connaissance de Nina Skåtøy, une militante qui voue sa vie à la lutte des classes...

A boy witnesses his father lose his temper in the face of a stranger.

Revolving around the life of un-produced screenwriter Barnum Nilsen, The Half Brother is a dramatic family saga that offers an historical parable of 20th century Europe. On V Day, May 1945, as a continent emerges from war, Barnum’s mother Vera is raped in her attic in Oslo by an unknown man, leading to the birth of Barnum’s half brother, Fred. When Barnum is born five years later, to the man that Vera has since met and married, the Nilsen family, like Europe, is already splitting in two. Growing up together during the Cold War – Barnum with his father, Fred searching for his – the half brothers become estranged and Fred eventually disappears. At the film festival in Berlin in 1990, as the Wall is still coming down, Barnum learns that Fred has returned. Finally, as the true identity of Fred’s father comes to light, the two half brothers may once again be reunited.