Elsa Lystad Movies

Based on a play by Tom Eyen.

Father and mother Andersen and their four children live in a closed down farmside storehouse in the outskirts of Oslo. They enjoy life here, but the...

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...

For many, the happy twenties were not very happy, with high unemployment, poverty and a bitter disillusioned youth. But at the same time there was...

For many years, Terje Svahberg saved up to buy a cabin. But then something happened, suddenly and unexpectedly. He became obsessed with boats. And...

Based on Oslo Nye Teater's revue "Jubileumsrevyen 7 1/2" (The 7 1/2 Anniversary Revue), which premiered on August 19, 1974. Begins with interviews...

One day, Laffen, a family man, homeowner, and watchmaker, overhears his 17-year-old son lecturing his younger siblings. He gives them a shocking...

A filming of and around a Chat Noir show revue from 1972.

This black-and-white Norwegian film is a great rarity: a film with comic elements set in a mental ward which does not overstep the bounds of common...

He went out to empty the trash, but he should never have done that! Just listen to what happened to our hero Reinert Andersen in the early morning....

Drama by Henrik Ibsen (1882). Edited and instructed by Per Bronken. The action is set in a coastal town in southern Norway which is known for its...

Erik Bruun (Nils Vogt) milks the social security system by making up a lot of tenants with one social security-entitled defect worse than the other,...

Bør Børson Jr. will become a great man quickly, but will be ridiculed when lower class in Olderdalen crashes with modern Norway.

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...

A company director and a tramp bumps into each other, with the result of a broken liquor bottle, and a fight emerges, as well as the police. They are...