Movies: Pehr Qværnstrøm

David has just been released from the prison. He meets the prostitute Maggi and follows her home. They decide to start a new life together and move to the countryside....

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...

An interesting look into 1931, a year of unemployment and misery in the forests of Norway. The movie is important as both film history and social portrayal. We get insight into working conditions class differences between loggers and forest owners. B...

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

Young student Steffen Berg finds it difficult to adapt to society's laws and rules. After dropping out of medical school, he starts working in a shop to support his family, together with his brother Jørgen and sister Gerda, and to keep his mother out...

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

Two young girls go to the big city to work in a food store. The owner's wife believes she's sick, and the owner is more than interested in the two girls. Based on Oscar Braathen's Novel....

Early Norwegian short film from 1911....

In beautiful Telemark, a young boy grows up on a rich farm. To his fathers dislike, he wants to be a fiddle player, just like the son at the poorer neighboring farm. One day the father is found dead....

An early Norwegian silent short....

The first ever Norwegian fiction film. The film is lost....