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Dagny is based upon the life of Norwegian female artist Dagny Juel (1867-1901). She was a writer and cultural worker as well as musician frequenting with some of the greatest artist in Berlin in the late 1800's.

As depicted in this film, she was a youthhood friend of fellow Norwegian and painter Edward Munch, which welcome her to Berlin were she went in 1892 to take piano lessons. There she met up with the likes of Swedish writer August Stindberg and polish writer Stanislaw Przybyszewski, in which she married.

To tell more about her life will spoil, so I won't. But Lise Fjeldstad does an outstanding role here as Dagny, where she litterary is in almost every frame of the movie.

The fil is directedby Norwegian Haakon Sandøy, with script written by Polish Aleksander Scibor-Rylski, as a Polish-Norwegian co-production.

The film has a great setting, but sometimes I feel it's too theatrical in some inhouse scenes. This disturbs some of the experience, and makes me unable to land in the film as a whole.

This movie is made available in 2024 when it was released on interregional Blu-Ray Disk by Norwegian Film Classics as the forthysixth release in a new series with classics, NFK0046, with subtitles in English, and is supposed to be held in stock for film lovers.

A much forgotten film which was hailed by the critics? Yes, that's the fact about this seond feature film by Pål Løkkeberg with his wife Vibeke Løkkeberg in the main role, just as in his first film Liv (1967).

Maria is married with the business man Carl, and is working part time as a swimming teacher. She needs more excitement in life, but when she finds she is pregnant she decides against having the child. When she meets Danish Lou she gets on a wild rampage where they rob a post office.

It's quite baffling this is Pål Løkkeberg's last feature film, but he never got money to make his third, written togerther with acclaimed novelist Jens Bjørneboe.

I find the film interesting in more ways than one, and has a taste of French-ness, as well as a quite interesting plot and story. It unconventional as a Norwegian movie, and I find it refreshing.

In 2024 this movie was made available and released in HD for the first time. Released on interregional (region-free) Blu-Ray Disk by Norwegian Film Classics as the 42nd release in a new series with classics, NFK0042, with subtitles in English, and is supposed to be held in stock for film lovers.

I'm a fan of Hans Petter Moland as a filmmaker, and I really adore most of his films. But not this.

I recently saw it again, and raised tha mark from 5 to 6/10, but it still misses the mark for me.

Comrade Pedersen (Gymnaslærer Pedersen) is the story about the fresh teacher arriving in a Norwegian smalltown i 1968. He has no other dream than getting a family, which he does, but then he is swiped to the left by the radical left communist wave sweaping Europe, and also this small town. The marxist-leneinist movement in Norway at the time AKP(m-l) hails Russians communism. Pedersen has an affair with a newly arrived doctor. Is it with this communist chick or is it a political affair? Well, that's a "both" I guess.

This is just nothing that hits me. I can see the movie is made with love and skill, but to me it's fall short of being interesting. As to answer why, I simply can not find the answer. I'm not very charmed, I'm not engaged in the story, and I don't get any kind of thrill.

In 2024 this movie was made available and released in HD for the first time. Released on interregional (region-free) Blu-Ray Disk by Norwegian Film Classics as the 41st release in a new series with classics, NFK0041, with subtitles in English, and is supposed to be held in stock for film lovers.