Nine Lives (1957 film)
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Directed by | Arne Skouen |
Written by | Arne Skouen |
Produced by | Arne Skouen |
Starring | Jack Fjeldstad Henny Moan Alf Malland Joachim Holst-Jensen Rolf Søder |
Distributed by | Louis de Rochemont Associates |
Release date |
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Running time | 96 minutes |
Country | Norway |
Language | Norwegian |
Nine Lives (Norwegian: Ni Liv) is a 1957 Norwegian film about Jan Baalsrud, a commando and member of the Norwegian resistance during World War II. Trained in Britain, in 1943, he participated in an operation to destroy a German air control tower. This mission was compromised when he and his fellow soldiers accidentally made contact with a civilian rather than a Resistance member, who betrayed them to the Nazis.
The film was
In 1958, the film was nominated for an Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film[2] and was entered into the Cannes Film Festival.[3] In 1991, Norwegian television audiences voted it the greatest Norwegian film ever made.[citation needed]
Plot
The morning after their blunder, the resistance fighters are attacked by a German vessel. The Norwegians' boat contains 8 tons of
Baalsrud evades capture for roughly two months, during which time he suffers from
The fellow Norwegians manage to move Baalsrud close to the Swedish border, but are forced to leave him in a snow cave for roughly two weeks. They made a new plan to get him over the border, having him transported by a reindeer herder, who finally gets him across the frontier to safety.
Baalsrud recuperates in a Swedish hospital for seven months. He returns to England through South Africa, Asia, Australia, New Zealand, and America before rejoining the fight.[4]
Cast
- Jack Fjeldstad - Jan Baalsrud
- Henny Moan - Agnes
- Alf Malland - Martin
- Joachim Holst-Jensen - Bestefar (grandpa)
- Lydia Opøien - Jordmoren (midwife)
- Edvard Drabløs - Skolelæreren (schoolteacher)
- Sverre Hansen - Skomakeren (cobbler)
- Rolf Søder - Sigurd Eskeland
- Ottar Wicklund - Henrik
- Olav Nordrå - Konrad
- Alf Ramsøy - Ivar, kjelketrekker (pulled the sled)
- Jens Bolling - Alfred, kjelketrekker
- Per Bronken - Ole, kjelketrekker
- Grete Nordrå - Stenografen (stenographer)
- Lillebil Nordrum - Sykepleiersken ("Nurse")
- Wilfred Breistrand as a sled puller
See also
- List of Norwegian submissions for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film
- List of submissions to the 30th Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film
- Nine lives (disambiguation)
- The 12th Man (2017)
References
- ISBN 978-1-59921-063-6. Republished 2007 by the Lyons Press.
- ^ "The 30th Academy Awards (1958) Nominees and Winners". Oscars.org. Retrieved 2011-10-25.
- ^ "Festival de Cannes: Nine Lives". Festival-cannes.com. Retrieved 2009-02-10.
- ^ "Eventyret om Oppegård (Norwegian)". Oppegardeventyret.homestead.com. 2001. Retrieved 2006-07-10.